List of mayors of Jaffna information

The Mayor of Jaffna is the head of the Jaffna Municipal Council, the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The seat is currently...

the current municipal council in 2011. See also List_of_mayors_of_Jaffna Historically residents of Jaffna were Tamils, Moors (Muslims), Europeans and Eurasian...

The burning of the Jaffna Public Library (Tamil: யாழ் பொது நூலகம் எரிப்பு, Yāḻ potu nūlakam erippu; Sinhala: යාපනය මහජන පුස්තකාලය ගිනිබත් කිරීම, Yāpanaya...

Founder of Thurai Law ( About Soil) T. Nadaraja - Chancellor of the University of Jaffna; Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ceylon...

Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party) Raja Viswanathan – Mayor of Jaffna N. Vithyatharan – editor of Uthayan List of schools in Northern Province, Sri Lanka Schools...

Lankan lawyer who served as Mayor of Jaffna from 1970 until his assassination. He was also a Member of Parliament for Jaffna from 1960 to 1965. Duraiappah...

Jaffna Municipal Council (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம் மாநகர சபை, romanized: Yāḻppāṇam Mānakara Capai; JMC) is the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern...

violent incidents of the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom during his childhood that led him to militancy. In 1975, he assassinated the Mayor of Jaffna Alfred Duraiappah...

AD 1209–1210, AD 1211–1212) House of Kalinga (AD 1187–1197, AD 1200–1209) House of Siri Sanga Bo (AD 1220–1597) Jaffna Kingdom (AD 1232–1619) Savakan Lotus...

II, a Tamil martyr and the last king of Jaffna Kingdom. The statue is seen as a landmark of the city of Jaffna. The Sangiliyan statue was built 1974...

persecution erupted in the form of the 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983 anti-Tamil pogroms, as well as the 1981 burning of the Jaffna Public Library. These were...

January 1, 2024. Arulampalam is from a Jaffna Tamil family. His parents fled Sri Lanka in July 1983, at the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War. They moved...

at the Duraiappa stadium in Jaffna placing a bomb in an attempt to murder the Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah. A member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party...

celebrate". AsiaNews. "SL military wants Jaffna University shut down on Mu'l'livaaykkaal Day". TamilNet. 6 May 2014. "Jaffna University To Close On May 18". The...

Gurunagar (Tamil: குருநகர், romanized: Kurunakar) is a coastal village in Jaffna city in northern Sri Lanka. Gurunagar is also known as Karaiyur (Tamil:...

(Cathiravelu Ponnambalam) was the First Mayor of Jaffna. Ponnambalam hailed from a distinguished Tamil family from Jaffna. His father Arumugam Cathiravelu was...

Sivakumaran. Mayor of Jaffna Alfred Duraiappah was a member of the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party and its chief organiser in Jaffna District. Tamil...

was the first female mayor of Jaffna, a city in Sri Lanka. She served from 1997 until her assassination. Yogeswaran was a member of the Tamil United Liberation...

This is a list of assassinations which took place on the continent of Asia. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate...

politician who served as Mayor of Jaffna in 2001 and a Member of Parliament for Jaffna District from 2001 to 2006. A member of the Tamil National Alliance...

the fourth World Tamil Research Conference, which was held in the city of Jaffna between 3 and 9 January 1974. Sri Lankan Police disrupted the meeting...

List G. Yogasangari – EPRLF MP for Jaffna District V. Yogeswaran – Former TULF MP for Jaffna district Admiral Clancy Fernando – Former Commander of the...

of communal harmony. In Jaffna, the northern province of Sri Lanka, a statue was erected to honor the memory of the victims of the conflict, particularly...

January – Jaffna District parliamentarian S. Shritharan is elected as the new leader of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, the main constituent party of the Tamil...