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Sri Lanka Railways began partnering with ExpoRail and Rajadhani Express in 2011 for premium service on major routes. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Its northern line , affected by almost three decades of war, is being rebuilt; in 2015, it was restored to Jaffna and Kankesanthurai at pre-war levels The maximum speed on this line is currently 120 km/h(74 mph). [ 15 ]
A focus of the STD bus was its ability to build a system using the exact bus cards required for an application. The compact size of a card made the STD bus system more adaptable to various applications than the contemporary computer buses of the mid-1980s such as the S-100 and the SS-50 , because it could use servo control cards along with a ...
4 March – Rail services resume on the Northern Line between Kilinochchi and Pallai after an interruption of 23 years due to the civil war. [72] [73]7 March – Customs officials in Colombo seize 36 kilograms (79 lb) of heroin, worth about Rs.360 million, at the Rank Container Terminal in Orugodawatte.
INTERBUS is a serial bus system which transmits data between control systems (e.g., PCs, PLCs, VMEbus computers, robot controllers etc.) and spatially distributed I/O modules that are connected to sensors and actuators (e.g., temperature sensors, position switches). The INTERBUS system was developed by Phoenix Contact and has been available ...
Upon arriving at Rameswaram, his body was displayed in an open area in front of the local bus station to allow the public to pay their final respects until 8 p.m. that evening. [9] [10] On 30 July 2015, the former president was laid to rest at Rameswaram's Pei Karumbu Ground with full state honours. Over 350,000 people attended the last rites ...
The VESA Local Bus (usually abbreviated to VL-Bus or VLB) is a short-lived expansion bus introduced during the i486 generation of x86 IBM-compatible personal computers.Created by VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association), the VESA Local Bus worked alongside the then-dominant ISA bus to provide a standardized high-speed conduit intended primarily to accelerate video (graphics) operations.
Indian Oil Corporation, will invest Rs. 10 billion (US$62 million for the first phase, US$38 million would be invested in the second phase) in Sri Lanka and will operate 100 fuel stations which it has purchased from the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation [5] In 2003, Sri Lankan Government give to 15 Trincomalee oil tanks, on a 35 years lease for an ...
Sri Lanka's more recent history was marred by the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War, which began in 1983 and ended in 2009, when the Sri Lanka Armed Forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [20] Sri Lanka is a developing country, ranking 78th on the Human Development Index.