Saturday, April 13 marked the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, one of Sri Lanka’s main cultural holidays. Commonly known as “Avurudu” in Sinhala and as “Puthandu” or “Puththandu” in Tamil, the celebration ...

JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru Lagoon in Mullaitivu district, there stands a statue of ...

Workers to get Rs 376 crore in bonuses and benefits as Tamil Nadu celebrates record 9.69% economic growth In a major pre-festive boost, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday announced a 20 ...

LOS ANGELES, California – April 14 marked the first day of the traditional Tamil calendar, and millions of people in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Reunion, and Mauritius were celebrating the ...

The Tamil capitalist parties based in the north and east of Sri Lanka are deeply divided over their stance in the country’s presidential election to be held on September 21. Whatever their tactical ...

The Ellalan Force, a front organisation of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), has claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks on buses and trains in southern Sri Lanka in ...

Pongal bonus: The Tamil Nadu government has introduced a special Pongal bonus for its employees, teachers, pensioners, family pensioners, and former village administrative officers (VAOs) in ...

Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta‘s next film is a “Get Out“-style supernatural thriller, she revealed on Tuesday. Speaking at a virtual event organized by Indian socio-cultural organization, the ...

Ayoma Arundhi Silva, a Christian, joined her Buddhist family to celebrate Sinhala and Tamil New Year — a time when people visit their loved ones. "My husband is a Buddhist and we follow all the ...

They came with oil lamps and garlands, and some even brought the favorite meals of their lost ones as they gathered to remember their war dead in front of broken tombstones and handwritten plaques.

Dhanika has developed a mobile web browser which supports both Sinhala & Tamil Unicode text rendering making display of these languages on Android mobile phones possible. Global Voices stands out as ...

For six months now, a team of archaeologists and forensic experts has been unearthing human remains from a mass grave in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. The number of skeletons retrieved has now crossed ...