Discarded fishing gear is endangering wildlife in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay between India and Sri Lanka—now researchers are talking to fishers to find out what can be done. There are ...

By Malaka Rodrigo COLOMBO – During the Ice Ages, there was a decrease in global sea levels, creating a land bridge between ...

A recent study off Sri Lanka’s west coast, which included surveys of coral reefs and shipwrecks like the Thermopylae Sierra, ...

“Fishing is dangerous.” Tensions have been high on the strait since 1983, when Sri Lanka first descended into a three-decade-long civil war that pitted its Sinhalese majority in the south ...

The dispute between India and Sri Lanka over fishing rights in thePalk Bay/Palk Strait appears to be intractable. Various solutions have been thought of, but none has attained fruition. There is no ...

The prolonged dispute over fishing rights around Kachchatheevu Island in Palk Bay has been a source of tension between India and Sri Lanka for many years. The recent protests by Sri Lankan ...