Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By P.Krishnaswamy
With the Government launching a restoration project for the Myliddy fishing harbor, displaced fishermen in the Jaffna peninsula are preparing to return to their traditional fishing grounds in the area.
Last year, after occupying it for nearly three decades, the military released the Myliddy fisheries harbour and 54 acres around it, allowing displaced fishing communities...
The Katchateevu St.Anthony’s Church annual feast this year was a great success, with nearly 9,000 devotees from both, India and Sri Lanka attending on February 23 and 24.
There were some 1,900 Indian devotees, mostly fisher folk, and about 7,000 Sri Lankan devotees visiting the shrine, besides a large number of journalists, from India and Sri Lanka, and several...
By P.Krishnaswamy
Leaders of plantation trade unions came under fire from dismayed plantation workers for betraying them on their Rs.1000 wage...
A mechanism to secure the release of Tamil ‘political’ prisoners is being formulated following consultations with President...
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) came under fire from EPDP leader and Minister of Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Northern...
Commenting on the unsuccessful talks with the Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) on the Rs.1,000 wage increase demand of the...
The Plantation Industries Ministry is compiling details of lands of state-owned tea estates that were given to private...
While the one-month-long plantation workers’ protests on their Rs.1,000 basic wage demand and the low worker turn out after their...
Diwali or Deepavali is the most popular and eagerly anticipated Hindu festival, celebrated on the 15th day of the Hindu month,...
Conveying his felicitations to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa who was sworn in as premier on Friday, October 26, Jaffna...
With only two days for the term of the TNA-held Northern Provincial Council (NPC) to end, the party’s dissident Chief Minister(CM...
As the latest development on the final phase of the Moragahakanda-Kaluganga Development Project (MKDP) aiming at transferring...
Moragahakanda reservoir will transfer the much needed water for agriculture and drinking water purposes to the dry zone areas of...
The Sunday Observer contacted some candidates contesting the February 10 local government polls in the Batticaloa district,...
Dissidence brewing for long among constituents of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) led by opposition leader Rajavarothayam...
The tender procedure for the construction of 50,000 houses for the conflict-affected people of the North and East, is now being...