Conditions have changed since Cairn India drilled exploratory wells Conditions for taking forward Sri Lanka’s efforts at exploiting indications of the presence of petroleum and natural gas in the ...

The licence for mineral exploration in Mannar Island has changed hands with several local companies and ultimately it was bought by the Australian company but without following the due process, ...

The Mannar basin is an under-explored frontier petroleum province, virtually unexplored in Sri Lanka with both structural and stratigraphic plays. This detailed study commenced in March 2010 in ...

The island of Mannar is one of a kind in the world. It has its beaches, sand dunes, mangroves, beautiful sceneries with sunrises and sunsets, local and migratory birds, and rear animals like loris.

Mannar is self sufficient in its food production, so why are we trying to disturb that part of it by allowing a private company to take the ilmenite away while disturbing the biodiversity in Mannar?

Efforts to secure the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Mannar’s traditional metal crafts are making progress.

Two new renewable energy plants are going to be established in the Mannar area in line with the government’s energy policy to absorb more renewable energy to the national grid. Energy Minister Kumara ...

The Model Village Housing Project is being implemented in all 25 districts of the island jointly with the Ministry of Urban Development, Construction and Housing of Sri Lanka with grant support ...

When M.G. Venkatesh Mannar (MS ’72) set out for the United States to get a master’s degree in chemical engineering, he hoped to use what he learned to modernize his family’s salt manufacturing ...

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 ...