COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A railway union strike stopped most trains across Sri Lanka on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of passengers to brave the few dangerously overcrowded trains that kept ...

Sri Lanka’s Up Country is a landscape of forested peaks and rolling hills, their slopes striped with tea plantations and ...

The Indian High Commissioner expressed happiness that as a long-standing development partner of Sri Lanka, India worked on projects to improve the Northern and Southern Railway lines, aligning with ...

The Government of Sri Lanka's Ministry of Finance has signed an agreement to receive $318m credit from the Government of India for rail development works. The loan agreement was signed by Ministry of ...

ADB to support $192m Railway Efficiency Improvement Project in Sri Lanka. Credit: Steven Barham. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide a $160m loan to support a railway modernisation ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — 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 ...

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