Etymology. Jaffna is known in Tamil as Yalpanam and earlier known as Yalpanapattinam.A 15th-century inscription of the Vijayanagara Empire mentions the place as Yalpaanayanpaddinam. [citation needed] The name also occurs on copper plates issued by Sethupathi kings of the same era.The suffix -pattinam indicates the place to have been a seaport town.. The origin of the …

JHC play Kokkuvil Hindu College in an annual cricket match known as the Battle of the Hindus. The first match took place in 2008. Principals. 1890-92 S. Godman Appapillai; 1892-09 ... This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy.

Operation Pawan (Hindi: कार्यवाही पवन Kãryvãhi Pavan, lit."Operation Wind") was the code name assigned to the operation by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to take control of Jaffna from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), better known as the Tamil Tigers, in late 1987 to enforce the disarmament of the LTTE as a part of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord.

Background. The Sri Lankan Civil War was in a conflict on the island-nation of Sri Lanka.Between 1983 and 2009 there was an intermittent civil war, predominantly between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist militant organisation who during this time fought for the creation of an independent state named Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the …