Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn into ... island nation's unprecedented economic crisis propelled him to a ...

A trash dump landslide in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo killed at least 16 and injured over a dozen, military spokesman and hospital officials said on Saturday, April 15, as emergency workers dug ...

COLOMBO, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's National Building Research Organization (NBRO) issued early landslide warnings on Tuesday for multiple areas across eight districts, as heavy rainfall ...

According to the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank, the most frequent natural hazards that impact Sri Lanka ...

Flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rains in Sri Lanka have killed at least seven people, the country's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) has said. In Sitawaka - outside the capital ...

Developing a system for transmission of early warning information about long-travelling landslides and support of risk assessment Landslides occur frequently in Sri Lanka, where there has been a ...

China has provided financial assistance to the tune of Rs 30 million to compensate for damage caused due to natural disasters from January to October this year, the government said on Saturday.

Floods and landslides in tropical Sri Lanka have killed at least 164 people, authorities said on Monday, as a cyclone grew in the Bay of Bengal, churning towards Bangladesh More than 150 people are ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist president dissolved parliament ... was sworn into office on Monday after a landslide win in weekend presidential polls. Late Tuesday he dismissed the 225-member legislature ...

Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn in to office Monday and vowed to restore public faith in politics, but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an ...

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, which has sole authority to print currency in the island nation, told AFP it had not released ...

He succeeded Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office at the peak of Sri Lanka's 2022 financial crisis following the government's first-ever foreign debt default and months of punishing food ...