Sri Lanka, Aug. 25 -- Cabinet approval has been granted to award contracts for the construction of a new Cardiology Unit at the Trincomalee District General Hospital and a new Cardiology and ...

Plans to develop the port in eastern Sri Lanka have repeatedly stalled out, due to a variety of internal and external factors. The natural endowments and strategic value of Trincomalee harbor in ...

In a bid for the commercialisation of the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm, Trinco Petroleum Terminal Ltd (TPTL) is planning to go for international bidding for the development of 29 tanks out of 61 tanks in ...

When Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa visited New Delhi last week, India’s possible economic assistance dominated talks with his counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman, and External Affairs ...

A plan to hold a military exercise between the navies of Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the strategic waters of Trincomalee was shelved a few weeks back, after New Delhi conveyed its concerns to Colombo ...

Colombo: A Sri Lankan man holds a national flag as police officers conduct investigations into aftermath of clashes between government supporters and anti government protesters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, ...

The ownership of Trincomalee port was highly contested by the Dutch, French and British as Gateway to Bay of Bengal in 1700s and 1800s. The famous seafarer Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, as a fleet ...

It's odd, seeing the masts in the distance. Three of them, their rigging just visible, extend above the surrounding buildings. Hartlepool, in the northeast of England, might be a port town, but the ...

Trincomalee had derived its name from the anglicized version of the old Tamil word,‘ Thiru- kona-malai ‘ meaning ‘Lord of the Sacred Hill’. it is apparent that over the ages Trincomalee had been ...

A warship berthed in Hartlepool has become the oldest still afloat in the world. HMS Trincomalee has gained the title temporarily after the USS Constitution was moved to dry dock until 2017 for a ...

The map below shows the location of Colombo and Trincomalee. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance ...