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Sri Lanka's ruling party lawmaker Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe's son Rakitha Rajapakshe who was arrested earlier today in connection with a traffic accident ...
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Sri Lanka recorded 11 deaths including that of a one-and-a-half-year-old infant due to traffic accidents on Sinhala and Tamil new year...
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The Road Development Authority (RDA) is investigating the site where a bus plunged down a precipice in Passara killing 14 and injuring 31 others on Sa...
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A 47-year-old man arrested in Matale for allegedly maintaining âbaby farmsâ was released on conditional bail and two sureties worth Rs 200,000 eac...
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The owner of the five-storey building that collapsed killing a neighbouring family has been arrested and charged our correspondent in Kandy reports.
Lawyers representing the stricken MT New Diamond crude oil tanker have agreed to settle the initial claim made by the government of Sri Lanka with reg...
No oil leaks have been detected so far from the MT New Diamond supertanker which caught fire last week in the seas off e...
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No oil leaks have been detected so far from the MT New Diamond supertanker which caught fire last week in the seas off e...
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Sri Lanka is planning its legal strategy to sue the owners of the Supertanker that caught fire off its shores and is cur...
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Sri Lanka will file legal action against the owners of the New Diamond supertanker that caught fire in the islandâs ma...
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The Sri Lanka Navy is declaring that the fire onboard the Supertanker MT New Diamond is completely doused and no flames ...
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An Indian Coastguard Dornier Aircraft was deployed yesterday Sept 8 to drop diesel dispersant on a patch of diesel disco...
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The Sri Lanka Navy is reporting that the fire that re-ignited on board the Supertanker MT New Diamond last evening is un...
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Two teams of scientists and experts from the Sri Lankan Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) are currently dep...
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Fresh flames have risen in the funnel section of the MT New Diamond Supertanker and firefighters are battling the fire u...
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A team of six experts is now at the location of the burning Supertanker MT New Diamond and are expected to conduct an as...
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Sri Lanka is in the process of estimating the financial and environmental cost of the crisis created by the fire on boar...
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The New Diamond Supertanker is being held in a static position some 40km East of Sri Lanka as firefighting boats continu...
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Sri Lankaâs Navy is saying there is no danger of an oil spill in Sri Lankan waters from the stricken Supertanker MT Ne...
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A team of experts are on their way to Sri Lanka to deal with the burning Supertanker carrying millions of tons of crude ...
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The stricken supertanker MT New Diamond is being towed away from Sri Lankan waters as the fire onboard continues to burn...
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The fire aboard the crude oil carrier MT New Diamond which is 38 kilometers off the eastern coast of the island has brok...
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Sri Lankaâs Navy is trying to locate a missing crew-member from the crude oil carrier MT New Diamond which caught fire...
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Two Sri Lankan victims have been identified in an explosion at a restaurant in Abu Dhabi on Monday (August 31), Sri Lank...
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Sri Lanka does not have the technical capacity to deal with a massive oil spill if a stricken oil tanker burning off the...
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An oil tanker carrying more than 200,000 of crude oil is on fire 38 kilometers off Sri Lankaâs East coast and about ha...
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