A measles outbreak in Bangladesh has killed more than 500 children, government data showed Saturday (May 23), marking the country s deadliest surge in decades of the preventable disease. MORE..
24 May 2026 (8:23 PM)
Level 2 landslide warnings have been issued to several areas of two districts owing to the prevailing heavy rainfall conditions across the country. MORE..
24 May 2026 (7:13 PM)
Two workers have sustained injuries and admitted to the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital after a section of a six-storey building collapsed along the E.L. Senanayake Mawatha in Kandy, police said. MORE..
24 May 2026 (4:53 PM)
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24 May 2026 (10:24 PM)
The southwest monsoon is likely to establish over Sri Lanka around May 26 or 27, bringing increased rainfall to the southwestern parts of the island during that period, the Department of Meteorology has stated. MORE..
24 May 2026 (3:43 PM)
More than 31,000 people in eight districts have been affected by the prevailing adverse weather conditions, according to the Disaster Management Centre (DMC). MORE..
24 May 2026 (6:05 PM)