A drunken Sri Lankan cricketer caused panic on a packed British Airways passenger flight when he tried to open the cabin door at 35,000ft. In his stupor he tugged away for up to two minutes at the ...

Wrong door: A drunk cricketer tried to open a cabin door on a British Airways flight after mistaking it for the toilet (Picture: File) A ‘drunken’ Sri Lankan cricketer tried to open the cabin door of ...

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Everything you would expect, that is, aside from access to serviceable public restrooms. Sri Lanka has a serious sanitation problem. There is 1 public toilet for every 20 homes, according to Daily ...

Rail passengers and the general public are not convinced that the Sri Lanka Railways cannot provide and maintain hygienic toilets for their use considering the availability of such public facilities ...

In a bizarre mid-flight incident, a Sri Lankan Airlines pilot reportedly locked his female co-pilot out of the cockpit when she took a toilet break, during a flight from Sydney to Colombo, on Monday.

Sri Lanka celebrates 68 years of independence from colonial rule this week but the Railways Department seems to have missed the message. In scores of railway stations across the country — from Colombo ...