Over 6000 internally displaced people (IDPs) from the east are still in camps, a latest study reveals. Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) which carried out the study says these families are still ...

The bunkers occupied by Tiger guerrillas in Sampur 10 days ago are no longer under their control. It is the same with their offices and sea tiger bases. All signs that the area was at one time a ...

The Sri Lankan military launched a major new offensive on Sunday aimed at capturing the Sampur area in the East of the island from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The operation is another ...

From mining to combustion, coal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels. Burning coal is the largest single source of climate-changing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the world, according to the ...

The LTTE has told the Norwegian peace brokers that the conquest of Sampur in Trincomalee district by the Sri Lankan armed forces has brought an end to the February 2002 Ceasefire Agreement (CFA). HT ...

Despite differences of opinion of the top level authorities of Sri Lanka’s Power and Energy sector and issues concerning the resettlement of the displaced, the 500 MW Sampur coal power project is to ...

In a surprising turn of events, the government has decided not to go ahead with the two proposed Indian and Japanese-funded Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) power plants in Sampur, Power and Renewable Energy ...

Sri Lanka's war displaced from several areas in the eastern district of Trincomalee will not be allowed to resettle in their ancestral lands, the government has confirmed. Trincomalee Government Agent ...

Sri Lankan security forces captured Sampur town in the eastern district of Trincomalee from the Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday, thus ensuring the safety of the Trincomalee harbour and naval base. HT ...

Baskaran, now a father of two girls, has not forgotten the day in April 2006 when he had to abandon his beloved village, Sampur, along with his family members and hundreds of others. Located about 40 ...

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of India on Friday signed an agreement with Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) to jointly set up a solar power plant in Sampur, in Sri Lanka’s eastern Trincomalee ...