COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, September 7 (UNHCR) - More than 3,000 people have fled their homes in north-west Sri Lanka's disputed Mannar district to escape fresh fighting between government troops and the ...

REUTERS: Sri Lanka has launched a tender to develop a gas block in the Mannar Basin off its northwest coast, vacated when Cairn India pulled out of an exploration project in 2015 as oil prices ...

In February last year, Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment cleared the company’s $ 442-million project at two wind energy-rich sites in the island’s Northern Province.

Offshore Sri Lanka contains undeveloped oil and gas resources. Mannar basin straddles Sri Lankan and Indian waters and has only been explored by a handful of wells.

A Chinese state-owned operator took control of a port on a 99-year lease after Sri Lanka defaulted on its loans. An adviser to Sri Lanka's president said the government wants China to "give it back." ...

Another mass grave has been uncovered in Sri Lanka, near Mannar, a town in the Northern province, where the almost 30-year war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE ...

ByDineth Rathnayaka 14 February 2017 12:02 am - 0 - { {hitsCtrl.values.hits}} A A A REUTERS: Sri Lanka has launched a tender to develop a gas block in the Mannar Basin off its northwest coast ...

UNHCR, in coordination with other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and local government officials, will continue with relief and protection-monitoring efforts as the situation in Mannar ...