In an unexpected twist that links science, conservation, and global fraud, Sri Lanka’s leading herpetologist Dr. Anslem de ...

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when ...

ECONOMYNEXT – President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his party threatened to sack him . But outgoing Finance Secretary ...

Sri Lankans experienced fuel shortage and long queues in 2022 when it ran out of foreign currency to buy fuel before mass ...

An old video showing two people on a motorcycle falling into a pothole has been misrepresented in social media posts holding ...

The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) today issued early warnings for landslides in seven districts. ..

The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has issued Level 1 landslide early warnings for the districts of Colombo, Galle, Kalutara, Ratnapura, Kegalle, Kandy, and Nuwara Eliya.

Deforestation, habitat loss, and habitat fragmentation due to agricultural expansion, urban development, mega development projects, unplanned and unsustainable land use, human-wildlife conflict, ...

Sri Lanka: Several dead as storm causes floods, landslides 11/28/2024 November 28, 2024. A depression in the south-west part of the Bay of Bengal has caused heavy rains while cyclone conditions ...

Sri Lanka has witnessed several landslides at both presidential and parliamentary polls since then - in 1994, 2010, 2019, and 2020. Yet these shifts have mostly transpired between two or three ...

By Rathindra Kuruwita Sri Lanka is now experiencing heavy rainfall concentrated over brief periods, which has led to an increase in earth slips and landslides, according to Dr Gamini Jayatissa, ...