They somehow suspected that the king of Jaffna had some connection with the king of Kandy. Meanwhile as Sitawaka Rajasinghe had no son to succeed him, the kingdom had no king for sometime. Trouble ...

He tried to chase the Portuguese from his kingdom. He besieged Mannar ... Then they set forth with a huge army, to punish the King of Jaffna. They reached Colombu-thurai, disbanded the army of the ...

When the Portuguese arrived in 1505, there were three kingdoms -- Kotte, Kandy and Jaffna. The Jaffna kingdom was last ruled by Ariyachakrawaththi Sangilian, a Hindu king. He vehemently opposed the ...

The case is currently being heard at the Jaffna Court. The petition, filed by the association of relatives of missing persons during the war, seeks a fresh order compelling Rajapaksa to appear as a ...

A brief power outage occurred during a meeting attended by the Minister of Power and Energy, Kumara Jayakody in Jaffna today. The Power and Energy Minister delivered a speech, assuring that ...

While acknowledging India's continued support during Sri Lanka’s most challenging times, Jayasuriya asked for India’s help in building an international cricket stadium in Jaffna -- an area in ...