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Sri Lanka’s northern waters remain far richer in marine resources than those off the southern coast of India, largely because ...

Sri Lanka has submitted a proposal to India on renovating and rehabilitating parts of the strategically important Kankasanthurai (KKS) harbour in Jaffna in the north, according to media reports.

The powerful military has occupied it for decades and now seeks to gain possession of it. Much of it - about 6,400 acres (26 sq km) - surrounds Jaffna's airport and a harbour which is being ...

COLOMBO: An Indian project to rehabilitate the war-hit harbour at Kankesanthurai (KKS) in the northern Sri Lankan district of Jaffna, will be reaching a major milestone in November, when the s ...

Since the end of its three-decade long civil war in 2009 and with the help of India, Sri Lanka has been upgrading the Jaffna peninsula’s Kankesanthurai harbour and the adjacent air field Palali ...

Sri Lankan Navy arrests 22 TN fishermen for ‘crossing’ IMBL near Jaffna According to sources, around 1,500 fishermen went fishing on 405 mechanised boats from Mandapam harbour on Wednesday ...

Security Force Headquarters - Jaffna (SFHQ-J) is to release 54 acres of land in Myladi Fisheries Harbour today (July 3), army media sources said. The report claimed displaced families will be able to ...

The first major industrial development project will kick start in the Jaffna peninsula shortly when the 65 acre Industrial ... Point Pedro Harbour 10 miles whilst to the Chunnakam Railway ...

Fishermen on the Jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka were compelled last month to end eight days of protests against the military’s severe restrictions on their fishing activities. The ...

The passenger ferry service between Kankesanthurai (KKS), Jaffna and Nagapattinam, India resumed operations today (August 16) with its maiden journey being completed in four hours. Launched in ...

The powerful military has occupied it for decades and now seeks to gain possession of it. Much of it - about 6,400 acres (26 sq km) - surrounds Jaffna's airport and a harbour which is being ...