Efforts by government troops to secure control of a main highway that links mainland Sri Lanka to the northern Jaffna peninsula came a step closer Thursday when they re-captured Pallai, a palm-fringed ...

In her family, her husband, father and two brothers died fighting for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, as the rebel group was formally known. Two other siblings are missing. She was born in ...

The state government announced Rs 10 lakh solatium to the family of the victim. The cheque was handed over to the family by forest department officers on Thursday. COIMBATORE: A 38-year-old tribal ...

Nearly 16 years after Sri Lanka's civil war, former female fighters from the country's northern provinces still have limited opportunities. Ranjini reminisces with a mix of nostalgia and regret ...

Mankulam, Sri Lanka — Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decadeslong separatist war and later took to ...