Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The public bus service from Mannaar to Jaffna has been resumed after twenty years in addition to the bus services resumed to Colombo from Mannaar, sources in Mannaar said. Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus leaves Mannaar main bus terminal to Jaffna daily at 6:30 a.m.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) civil authorities in Jaffna Sinhala Mahavidyalaya sent back Sunday nearly half of the persons who wanted to travel from Jaffna to out stations on personal errands as there were no buses to take them, sources in Jaffna said. Only 1655 passengers were permitted by SLA to travel. Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) officials in Koa'ndaavil Depot said that their repeated...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka Transport Board has started a commuter bus service between Colombo and Jaffna.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) civil administrative officials in Jaffna refused Friday to permit government employees earlier serving in Vanni to report for duty in Ki'linochchi and Mullaiththeevu districts in Vanni though Northern Province Governor, Major G. A. Chandrasiri had ordered them to report for duty in both districts. Many government employees including teachers who are originally from Ki'linochchi...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Six months after war ended in Sri Lanka, normality has yet to return to the Tamil cultural heartland of Jaffna, writes the BBC's Saroj Pathirana.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) does not permit the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taken to Poonakari and Thu'nukkai in Vanni to reside in their houses but keep them lodged in the school buildings, sources in Jaffna said. Meanwhile, SLA in Jaffna takes a group of teachers to these areas and brings them back daily in buses claiming that they teach the children of the IDPs. This is but an attempt by the government...
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Fifty-one Internally Displaced Persons of eighteen families held in camps in Jaffna district were sent to Batticaloa Thursday by three state sector buses thorough A9 road. They are now given shelter in Batticaloa Sinhala Maha Vidiyalayam. They would be resettled in their villages in the district after screening by armed forces and police intelligence unit, sources in Batticaloa said.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Governor of Northern Province, Major gen. G. A. Chandrasiri, said in a media release Wednesday that the lorries of private owners are allowed to transport goods through A9 road as a gesture related to the 64th Birth Day of President Mahinda Rajapakse and the completion of the fourth year of his term as President. This lifting of the restriction follows the earlier announced lifting of the Sri Lanka...
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) authorities in Jaffna continue to detain a group of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) including female undergrads of Jaffna University though action is taken to close all IDP camps in Jaffna and to detain the remaining IDPs in Raamaavil camp in Thenmaraadchi, sources in Jaffna said. Though the relatives of the above IDPs in Jaffna had applied to take responsibility of the IDPs...
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse has invited the top government officials in Jaffna District including the Government Agent (GA), Divisional Secretaries and Additional Government Agents for an urgent meeting at his official residence Temple Trees Thursday 6:00 p.m, Jaffna Secretariat sources said. This meeting taking place on the occasion of the President completing his fourth year of term and...
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Sri Lanka government has decided to close the Jaffna camps in which Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are detained while retaining Kodikaamam and Mirusuvil camps in Thenmaraadchi, Jaffna Secretariat sources said. According to this plan 68 persons from Mullaiththeevu and Ki'linochchi districts who had no relatives to take responsibility of them were transferred to Thenmaraadchi camps Wednesday from...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Nov 18, Colombo: Returning normalcy to the war-scarred northern region, the Sri Lankan government has lifted all restrictions that had been imposed on the civilians in the North reaching the South along the recently reopened A-9 highway, the only land route to Jaffna, from today.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A three-member bench of Supreme Court Tuesday fixed the inquiry into the Funamental Rights (FR) petition filed by former parliamentarian and the leader of All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy against the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) imposed travel restriction requiring persons travelling out of Jaffna, to 18 January 2010. The petition had been filed in April 2009.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Jaffna Government Agent (GA) informed Tuesday media in Jaffna peninsula that the Governor of Northern Province, Major. Gen. G. A, Chandrasiri has annulled the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) imposed travel pass procedure on persons travelling out of Jaffna peninsula, sources in Jaffna said. Meanwhile, SLA authorities in Jaffna had insisted that the said procedure is still in force despite recent Ministry of Defence...
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
2010 persons belonging to 624 families from the districts of Mullaiththeevu and Ki'linochchi in Vanni who still remain in the interim camps in Thenmaraachi are to be settled in Jaffna as no relatives or friends had come forward to take the responsibility of looking after them, Jaffna Government Agent (GA), K. Ganesh told media. The government, faced with limited relief resources to maintain the Vanni...
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