Tamil leaders of Sri Lanka [Images] have rejected the island nation government's devolution package aimed at ending the 25-year-old ethnic conflict saying the move was 'a joke played on Tamils'.

The panel of judges hailed Karunatilaka's novel as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war." The Booker Prize includes a £50,000 (over $ ...

New Delhi: Sri Lanka on Monday dismissed as a “joke” a top Tamil nationalist leader’s claim that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was killed in 2009 by the island nation’s military ...