The A-9 main road to Jaffna has been flooded at Omanthai, prompting police to urge motorists to use alternate routes. MORE..
27 Nov 2024 (10:39 AM)
A total of six flights scheduled to land at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake have been diverted to the Mattala Airport and the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport in India due to adverse weather conditions. MORE..
26 Nov 2024 (11:22 PM)
Sri Lanka s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, should address the country s many human rights problems by fulfilling and building upon pledges he made in recent election campaigns, Human Rights Watch has said in a letter to the president. MORE..
26 Nov 2024 (7:27 PM)
The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has issued a Level 3 (Red) Landslide Early Warning for several divisional secretariat divisions (DSDs) in Kandy, Matale and Nuwara-Eliya districts urging the residents of these areas to evacuate to safer locations. MORE..
27 Nov 2024 (12:11 AM)
The Meteorology Department says the deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal was located to 190 km southeast of Trincomalee at around 11-30 p.m. of November 26, 2024. MORE..
27 Nov 2024 (9:46 AM)
The Monetary Policy Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has decided to further ease the monetary policy stance and set the newly introduced Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) at 8.00 per cent. MORE..
27 Nov 2024 (10:04 AM)