Jaffna in a sentence

Sarath’s long association with the north of the country has culminated in a book called Jaffna Doors and Windows comprised of multilingual poems, each written in relation to a specific photograph of the devastated buildings of Jaffna during the civil war.

The former military airport at Jaffna is the third international airport in Sri Lanka after Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport and Hambanthota’s Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport and is situated at Palaly, which is 20 km away from Jaffna.

A proposal, currently under discussion, is for the pipeline to run from Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu to Jaffna in Northeast Sri Lanka.

For this series, she chose to spotlight a fishing community in Kurunagar, a coastal village in Jaffna.

The Boat Mail had a much greater expanse than the 64-nautical-miles-long ferry route (74 miles) between Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam and Jaffna’s Kankesanthurai.

Districts such as Colombo, Gampaha, Kandy, Jaffna, Galle, and many others decisively supported the party, highlighting a major shift in the political landscape.

Election officials carrying ballot boxes to a counting center on Saturday in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

On March 1, India and Sri Lanka signed an agreement for the development of a hybrid renewable energy system for the Delft, Analativu and Nainativu islands of the northern Jaffna peninsula.

The luxury resort Fox Jaffna has a poolside restaurant open to visitors, with dinner buffets serving local specialties.

The operation was launched Tuesday off the coast of Delft islet in Northern Jaffna when the Sri Lankan Navy received information that an Indian with some fishermen was involved in illegal fishing in the Sri Lankan waters.

A youth has been killed in Polgahawela after being hit by an express train traveling from Colombo to Jaffna.

Captain Smith was deployed to Palaly, a Sri Lankan air base in the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna that was besieged by militants.

The 20-minute vegetarian dish is flavoured with the likes of mustard seeds, star anise, turmeric, jaffna curry powder and creamy coconut milk.

Pannai area in Jaffna has experienced a tornado situation, last evening (15), according to Ada Derana reporter.

Reportedly, the suspect is a resident of the Thalayadi area in Jaffna.

Several spells of showers can expect in Jaffna, Mullaitivu and Mannar districts in the morning too.

Holte also visited Jaffna where he met with local fishermen and their families in Gurunagar, and took part in a beach cleanup with local community and the Marine Environment Protection Authority.

In the late 1970’s, the relative peace in the Jaffna society was so conspicuous that any observation on the proliferation of armed groups would have belonged to the fanciful world of nationalist political discourse.

It came as no surprise that the violence escalated, and it was during this period that the repository of Tamil culture, the Jaffna Library, was burnt by the police.

It has been said that when the Prince Sapumal of the Kotte Kingdom conquered Yapa Patuna (the present-day Jaffna) and was on his way for an audience with the king, he changed his attires in this location.