The death toll from the disaster situation triggered by Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka has risen to 618, while 209 people remain ...
When Denuwarage Kusumalatha (54) saw flood water reach her doorstep in the wee hours of Nov. 29, it was already too late. A ...
The worst cyclone to hit the island in a century uprooted fully-grown crops of tea, a key source of export revenue.
Cyclone-struck Sri Lanka’s Kandy district — the seat of the last Royal kingdom of Ceylon — suffered extensive damage and was ...
Two weeks after Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, the actual environmental cost of the disaster remains largely unknown, as ...
Rambuk Ela, in the central district of Kandy, was destroyed after a cyclone wreaked havoc across the island nation.
The storm, one of the most severe weather events to hit Sri Lanka in recent years, intensified rainfall across the island for days, triggering flash floods and massive landslides.
A wind power project being executed by Adani Green Energy in northern Sri Lanka has run into controversy, with locals and environmentalists raising concern over its possible impact on the coastal ...
Hatch, the nation’s award-winning startup hub and a driving force behind Sri Lanka’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, is advancing ...
As floodwaters up to 1.8m (six feet) high washed like a wave through their homes in Gampaha district last weekend, dozens of ...
UNHCR offers a fresh start in Sri Lanka's Vavuniya district for 130 families While tens of thousands of people have been displaced by renewed fighting in parts of Sri Lanka, a group of more than 130 ...