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By Ifham Nizam Sri Lanka could file cases in Singapore over the X-Press Pearl disaster, as the owners of the shipping company were based there, or in the United Kingdom as the relevant insurance company was in London, Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) Chairman/Senior Attorney at Law Ravindranath Dabare told The Island.President Ranil Wickremesinghe has […]

A delegation of the China Development Bank (CDB) is currently in Sri Lanka.The delegation has met the State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe and held discussions on debt related concerns. “This is a working level delegation and such communications by different Chinese financial institutions with Sri Lankan officials have taken place since April,” a Chinese […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita A private steel and cement manufacturer was planning to excavate 256 acres of the Pettigala Mountain, a part of the Galbokkayaya Mountain range, to extract calcite, Sajeewa Chamikara of Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) said.Calcite is used as a building material, abrasive, agricultural soil treatment, construction aggregate, pigment, pharmaceutical, and […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita A train running from Kandy to Colombo derailed between Peradeniya and Pilimathalawa stations yesterday morning. This was the 43rd derailment this year, General Secretary of the Railway Station Masters Union Kasun Chamara Jayasekara said. “The express train derailed at 4.47 am. This affected traffic along the line in the morning. The last […]