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First cruise ship since Covid-19 pandemic calls at Hambantota
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The motorcyclist has been admitted to the Peradeniya hospital.
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Sri Lanka's ruling party lawmaker Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe's son Rakitha Rajapakshe who was arrested earlier today in conne...
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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 ...
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The Road Development Authority (RDA) is investigating the site where a bus plunged down a precipice in Passara killing 1...
A 47-year-old man arrested in Matale for allegedly maintaining ‘baby farms’ was released on conditional bail and two...
The owner of the five-storey building that collapsed killing a neighbouring family has been arrested and charged our cor...
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Lawyers representing the stricken MT New Diamond crude oil tanker have agreed to settle the initial claim made by the go...
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The family which lived in the house in Kandy that collapsed killing a young neighbouring family has spoken publicly sayi...
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Multiple agencies including the Police are conducting investigations into the collapse of a five-storey house in Kandy y...
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The building that collapsed in Kandy killing an infant and two adults may not have been built according to specification...
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An infant and two adults are dead after a five-story building collapsed in the heart of Kandy in the early hours of this...
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A Colombo Magistrate has issued notice on the Captain of the stricken oil tanker MT New Diamond to appear before him on ...
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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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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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| 8-yr bond | 9.26 | 9.18 |
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| Overnight Money | 5.11 | 5.11 |
| Gilt Repo | 5.14 | 5.14 |
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Sri Lanka will file legal action against the owners of the New Diamond supertanker that caught fire in the island’s 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 Lanka’s 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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