The detection of a stock of live ammunition, a detonator and parts of an assault rifle in a library building at the ...

Jaffna Public Library has a painful history behind its pure white walls. It was burnt down during days of mob violence between May 31, 1981 and June 2.Sri Lankan state-sponsored authorities had been ...

Rising two stories and capped by three domes, the Jaffna Public Library looks a bit like a stately wedding cake. Gleaming white under the Sri Lanka sun, the building's classical lines and beautiful ...

A T-56 assault rifle, three hand grenades and several rounds of ammunition have been discovered within the premises of the ...

Two magazines were discovered on the University of Jaffna’s premises, hidden in the ceiling of the university library along ...

The programme to develop the Jaffna Library into an e-library was inaugurated this morning (01) under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Accordingly, the website jaffna.dlp.gov.lk ...

The destruction of a Sri Lankan library helped spark a civil war, and its reconstruction helps signal the war’s end Arunasalam Sanmugadas smiles when he remembers learning to read as a child. His ...

A centre of Tamil learning in Jaffna was attacked and destroyed. No, not last week, but 40 years ago, in 1981, the iconic Jaffna Library, a seat of Tamil language, literature and learning was burnt to ...

Compared to many bombed out homes and churches in town, the Jaffna Library is housed in a starkly and stately, milk-white building, reports Sutirtho Patranobis. Compared to many bombed out homes and ...

A young man who travelled approximately 10,000 kilometres across about 13 countries from France by bicycle arrived in Jaffna ...

The Jaffna library once held irreplaceable, ancient manuscripts, lost when it was torched in 1981. Fully restored, the beloved landmark today is... Rising two stories and capped by three domes, the ...