A 59-year-old resident of the Madumulla area in Uda Pussellawa has reportedly died after falling into a water-filled drain in the Mawathagama Industrial Zone in Koswatta. MORE..

28 Nov 2024 (9:57 AM)

The Meteorology Department says the deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal was located to 100 km northeast of Trincomalee at around 2.30 a.m. of November 28, 2024. MORE..

28 Nov 2024 (9:46 AM)

The body of another student out of the six who went missing after the tractor they were traveling on toppled and was swept away by floodwaters at Karaitivu in Ampara District last evening (26), has been discovered. MORE..

27 Nov 2024 (11:53 PM)

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has appointed new Secretaries to two key ministries, according to the President s Media Division (PMD). MORE..

27 Nov 2024 (11:29 PM)

The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has extended the Level 3 (Red) Landslide Early Warning issued to 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 (8:00 PM)

The Department of Meteorology warns that the deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal, which was located 110 km to the east of Trincomalee at around 11.30 a.m. today (27), is likely to move closer to the east coast of Sri Lanka and further intensify into a cyclonic storm during the next 06 hours. MORE..

27 Nov 2024 (7:38 PM)