New Delhi [India], April 4: RudraTree, a global leader in the gemstone industry since 1923, has announced the inauguration of its new Blue Sapphire and Yellow Sapphire mines in Sri Lanka.

What is more uncertain for Sri Lanka now is its obligation to rid the island nation of mines by 2028 under the Ottawa Treaty, which it ratified in 2017. Pushparani has experienced the civil war in ...

What is more uncertain for Sri Lanka now is its obligation to rid the island nation of mines by 2028 under the Ottawa Treaty, which it ratified in 2017. Pushparani has experienced the civil war in ...

Vilvaraj Vinothan, 30, who works for the demining agency Mine Advisory Group, excavates the ground in search for unexploded explosive devices in a contaminated mining area in Mankulam, Sri Lanka ...

Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decades-long separatist war and later took to clearing the land mines ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad What is more uncertain for Sri Lanka now is its obligation to rid the island nation of mines by 2028 under the Ottawa Treaty, which it ratified in 2017.

MANKULAM, Sri Lanka (AP ... later took to clearing the land mines on the same battle lines. But the Trump administration's suspension of aid threatens Sri Lanka’s demining operations ...