Batticaloa is experiencing cold weather without rain. As the flood waters are receding gradually in Batticaloa town people are beginning to move about. Batticaloa Municipal Council is cleaning the ...

Batticaloa town is vast but with no visible high-rise buildings and is dominated by the Dutch Fort, an iconic gold-coloured statue of Mahatma Gandhi on a cement pedestal, and the Batticaloa Gate ...

(Excerpted from Falling Leaves, an autobiographical anthology by LC Arulpragasam) The months of November and December of 1957 were marked by torrential rains in the Batticaloa District, leading to the ...

The two days programme to attracting foreign and local tourists started yesterday (13) with the cleaning of the Batticaloa lagoon and other heritage sites of the town. Thirty five Army personnel ...

Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in eastern Sri Lanka because of heavy fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. A BBC correspondent in Batticaloa says that 3,000 mostly ...

Yesterday, the protest march reached Trincomalee and is entering Batticaloa today (7th) for the final rally in Batticaloa town, where a declaration on Tamil demands is to be made.

A Bus Transporting Families of the Disappeared to the University Students Protest Rally Today was Damaged Today (7th) the final rally will be held in Batticaloa town, where a declaration on Tamil ...

AN ASTUTE INVESTOR Dr Covington was also an astute investor in real estate owning many properties in the Batticaloa town and elsewhere in the province. A big coconut estate in Kalmunai stretching from ...

REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte Hardly any election-related poster is visible in Batticaloa town, much like the rest of Sri Lanka, since the Election Commission banned banners and cut-outs last month.

Hundreds of people had protested the burial of Mohamed Azar, who attacked Zion Church in Batticaloa town, killing 27 people and wounding more than 70 others.

Hundreds of people had protested the burial of Mohamed Azar, who attacked Zion Church in Batticaloa town, killing 27 people and wounding more than 70 others ...

The land is located in Ottamavadi, about 40 kilometers from Batticaloa town in the Kalkudha electorate. Mr. Ameer Ali said he was planning to set up a vocational training institute for all communities ...