Lawrence Valin’s feature directorial debut “Little Jaffna” is set to make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The first clip has been unveiled from the film. The film, which Valin also ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The “Queen of Jaffna,” a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil’s northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a bloody civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs ...

Several years ago the Sri Lankan government emerged victorious after crushing Tamil Tiger rebels fighting for an independent homeland. Now a new battle is looming, this time in the courts over homes ...

A Sri Lankan Tamil, who illegally travelled from Sri Lanka by sea in a country boat and arrived in Rameswaram, was arrested by the police here on Saturday. Police said, Kannan, 34, a native of Jaffna, ...

The London Indian Film Festival will open its 16th edition with the U.K. premiere of “Little Jaffna.” Directed by Lawrence Valin, the film, which he also co-wrote and stars in, explores the Tamil ...

A Sri Lankan has been arrested in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu for allegedly entering India illegally, India media reports said ...

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has unveiled the lineup for its 23rd edition. The five-day festival will open with the North American premiere of Varsha Bharath’s “Bad Girl,” a ...

A total of 35 fishermen from Tamil Nadu have been arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy in the early hours of Monday (03) for ...

A shocking mass grave discovery in Sri Lanka reignites global attention on one of the world's highest cases of unresolved enforced disappearances.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, February 5 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has distributed packages of non-food items to more than 2,000 host families in northern Sri Lanka's Jaffna Peninsula despite ...

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, July 25 (UNHCR) - Despite the deteriorating security situation in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, a UNHCR-funded organisation in Jaffna is pushing ahead with construction of new ...

The detained fishermen were taken to the Kankesanthurai Naval Base for inquiry and are expected to be handed over to Jaffna Fisheries Department officials before being produced in court. Authorities ...