Devastation caused by heavy rains in the early hours of November 22 2025 resulting in a Kadugannawa hill top collapsing onto ...

UNESCO is pursuing an integrated recovery plan aligned with Sri Lanka’s national priorities in response to Cyclone Ditwah which left a major humanitarian crisis in its wake – impacting more than 2.2 ...

Floods in Sri Lanka are often treated as downstream problems, to be managed at river mouths, river basins, embankments, or ...

An ancient stone road has been uncovered in the area below the Ulpathgama 13 Ela fields in Hasalaka, where the Mahaweli River ...

A total of 62 dental surgeons will be joining the health service of of Sri Lanka on Monday, December 29.

The Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Department of Irrigation has issued flood warnings for the Mahaweli River Basin at 6:00PM today (18) Due to rainfall received since Wednesday ...

Colombo, Dec. 1 (Daily Mirror) - The flood warning issued for the Mahaweli River Basin has been extended for another 48 hours, the Irrigation Department said. In its bulletin, the department urged ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $200 million loan to support the ongoing Mahaweli Development Program, Sri Lanka’s largest multiuse water resources development initiative. The program ...

The Singapore government will contribute US$100,000 (S$129,000) as seed money to support the Singapore Red Cross' (SRC) public fundraising efforts for the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka caused by ...

The intensity was felt in the sheer breadth of disruption: agriculture, industry, tourism, and finance all staggered under ...