The famous St. Anthony’s Church feast this year was held on 14 and 15 March. St. Anthony, as per Catholic belief, gives ...

Former Jaffna University Vice-chancellor Prof ... He would wind up in the evening at 6.30 pm and walk to the nearby railway station and send his news despatches by railway parcel on the Colombo ...

The research also disclosed an interesting fact: these accidents generally occur at a significant distance away from the railway station a train has left, indicating that trains attaining a ...

His home was in the small village of Kondavil about six miles from Jaffna on the road going north to the sea coast town of Kankesanthurai. The train journey was short, so that Dinky and I, every ...

The national people’s power will win all 17 local authorities in the Jaffna district and form administrations” was the ...

Extracted with permission from Akashvani: A Century of Stories from All India Radio, Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni, ...

COLOMBO — More than a decade ago, Thushari, a young female elephant, born wild and free, would roam the landscapes of ...

Your return flight tickets can range from Rs. 38,000 to 40,000. If you’re travelling solo, there are many hostels you could ...

Born into poverty in the town of Jaffna, the capital city of the Northern ... His parents eventually went into the service station business and earned enough money to buy a council flat, and ...

I knew it was a good story and immediately filed it I was then staying in one of the guest rooms at the Jaffna railway station as it was just a stone’s throw away from the Virakesari office. I was ...