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Sri Lanka's government deployed army troops at railroad stations as railway employees continued with their strike that paralyzed train services across the country for a second day Wednesday, a day after two passengers were killed while attempting to travel on a packed train. Passengers were seen risking their lives to get to school and work on the few trains that were operating, Some people were seen traveling on the roof of train compartments, and many were seen barely hanging on to the f...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Additional buses from the Sri Lanka Transport Board will be deployed for service on Monday (17) due to a possible strike by railways - Get the latest breaking news and top stories from Sri Lanka, the latest political news, sports news, weather updates, exam results, business news, entertainment news, world news and much more from News 1st, Sri Lanka's leading news network.

Saturday, 08 May 2021 - 7:26 Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is in a critical condition following a bomb attack. Four others were injured in the blast, which is being treated as a terrorist incident. No-one has claimed the attack. Australian police are travelling to the Maldives to help investigate. Mohamed Nasheed was elected in 2008 but ousted in a coup four years later. He is now speaker of parliament - the nations second-most powerful position. Mohamed Nasheed, 53, has been an o...

Share: COLOMBO (News 1st); Dilum Amunugama was appointed as the State Minister for Community Police Services, in addition to his current portfolios, stated the President’s Media Division. He took oaths in his new position in the presence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat on Monday (03). Dilum Amunugama is also the State Minister of Vehicle Regulation, Bus Transport Services and Train Compartments and Motor Car Industry. Latest News

Revolutionizing the transport sector, the Ministry of Transport and the Central Bank played lead roles to get the key stakeholders to sign a four-party agreement to introduce Sri Lanka Transit Card (SLTC) recently. The SLTC initiative, which had been in the drawing board for many years will finally come to light in line with manifesto of the President, Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour, which proposed a single transport e-ticket system to be introduced in Sri Lanka. The four-party agreement f...

Share: COLOMBO (News 1st): The National Programme launched under the ‘Green Drive Concept’ with the aim of planting a tree per each vehicle including buses, commenced on Friday (Mar. 05), the State Minister of Vehicle Regulation, Bus Transport Services and Train Compartments and Motor Car Industry said. This initiative was launched in order to promote the ‘Green Drive Concept’ in line with the International Transportation Day, which is celebrated on the 1st Saturday of March every year...

The first phase of the Park & Ride bus service was inaugurated at the Makumbura Multimodal Transport Center, Kottawa today (Jan. 15) in the presence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as a solution to the heavy traffic congestion surrounding Colombo city limits. The “Park & Ride” aims to minimize the number of automobiles travelling to and from Colombo and suburbs by providing a comfortable, convenient and safe public bus transportation for passengers and riders who use cars and motorcycles a...

Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 10:00 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 31, Colombo: A fleet of 273 buses belong to Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) which were taken out of service due to dilapidation were repaired and re-added to the passenger transportation on Thursday (31) at an event held at the Galle Face Green today under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The repaired buses will be utilized to meet the passenger transportation needs in rural areas throughout the country....

Develops. >> shannon: chief bomb maker: attacks in the u.s. and europe asking followers to target trains, commuter rails, and other forms of public transportation. a new addition of the propaganda magazine lays out details and step-by-step instructions on how to make homemade bombs to attack train compartments and cause derailment. joining me now fox news contributor and former navy seal robert oneill and author of the new book "the operator firing the shots that killed usama bin laden and my ye...

They may be calling off the search for seven missing sailors. abby: their bodies have now been found inside the damaged destroyer. pete: ellison barber with the latest. reporter: good morning to you all. the search for seven missing sailors is over. they recovered several bodies inside the part on train compartments of the uss fitzgerald. the cargo ship collided with the guided missile destroyer about 56 article miles off the coast of japan, hitting a damaging the starboard right at the fitzgera...