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Sri Lanka Accreditation Board (SLAB), under the patronage of the Ministry of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative ...
The National Transport Commission (NTC) has announced that, effective July 1, the law requiring all public transport bus ...
Dream Destination” Project Commenced Renovation of 100 Railway Stations President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that the ...
Public transportation remains a critical lifeline for millions of Sri Lankans, yet inefficiencies, aging infrastructure and ...
Board a train in Chennai. Ride through Tamil Nadu’s coastal plains. Cross the new Pamban Bridge into Rameswaram. Reach Dhanushkodi, gaze across the Palk Strait, and sail to Talaimannar before ...
Colombo: Colombo: A bus carrying university students on a field trip skidded off a road and tipped over in central Sri Lanka on Friday, killing two students and injuring 39 others, officials said.
Colombo/New Delhi: Discussions are in the final stages for a $5 billion road-and-rail link between India and Sri Lanka with India set to bear the cost of the strategic project, said the island ...
Colombo (AsiaNews) – A 35-metre concrete beam collapsed along the Central Expressway, Sri Lanka's main highway on 5 May, at the 17th-kilometre section, not far from the Bemmulla railway station.
Engineer advocates for increased funding to meet safety goals By Rathindra Kuruwita The number of deaths in road accidents in Sri Lanka has been decreasing since 2020, Kamala Gunawardena, a highway ...
Sri Lanka’s civil war underwent several phases, interspersed by failed peace efforts and is commonly divided into Eelam wars I (1983-1987), II (1990-1994), III (1995-2002) and IV (2006-2009), although ...
The Sri Lanka Legume (Crudia zeylanica) -- a flowering tree whose pods are not known to be eaten by humans -- was first classified in 1868 and last found in 1911.