SriLankan Airlines is set to suffer losses exceeding US$230 million after a fleet of Airbus A320neo aircraft acquired with CFM LEAP engines was grounded for years due to design defects, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Ports and Civil Aviation Anura Karunathilaka has revealed.

Sri Lanka has publicly released details of a Defence Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with the United States, following criticism over the government’s refusal to disclose the agreement at the time of its signing earlier this month.

Families of Maaveerar - or Great Heroes - were honoured at an event in Vavuniya Municipal Cultural Hall today. 

The mother of three fallen cadres lit the sacrificial lamp before flowers were laid in front of portraits of Tamil fighters who died in the armed conflict. 

The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) commemorated fallen Tamil fighters in Mannar to mark Maaveerar Remembrance week. 

Tens of thousands of men and women sacrificed their lives in the struggle for Tamil Eelam. But not every single one of them was ethnically Tamil.

In this brief sample, we publish the names and details of fighters with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who joined not simply due to their ethnicity or religion, but to liberate the North-East from Sri Lankan oppression.