Colombo-Badulla railway services disrupted

A lorry has toppled on the railway line between Diyathalawa and Bandarawela disrupting railway services along the Badulla-Colombo line.  The control center of the Sri Lanka Railway Department informed that due to the disruption trains starting from Colombo would only travel to Diyathalawa.


Trains starting from Badulla might be delayed. The center said.

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Cargills gets CB approval to set up new bank

Cargill's had started as Milne, Cargill, and Company, but
Milne soon retired to Glasgow, while Cargill had other
interests, including Burmah Oil.  Long registered in
Glasgow.Cargills ws sold to Sri Lankans in 1946,
but they chose to keep the Cargill's name. 

The Central Bank has issued a provisional letter of approval to Cargills Ceylon PLC to establish a new commercial bank in Sri Lanka, a stock exchange filing said.

It said the application for a banking license had been made jointly by Cargills and its parent C T Holdings, who are the joint promoters of the new bank ‘Cargills Agriculture and Commercial Bank(CACB).

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Lankan govt. expresses its sorrow over New Delhi bomb attack

Minister of Irrigation and Water Supply, Nimal Siripala De Silva expressed in Parliament today (September 7) the Sri Lankan government’s sorrow regarding the bomb blast in new Delhi which killed nine people and injured 45

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