Sri Lanka closes offices, schools as death toll from landslides and floods rises to 56Sri Lanka faces a severe weather crisis. Floods and landslides have claimed 56 lives. Over 600 homes are damaged. Government offices and sc...
Indian aid distribution begins in Sri LankaSri Lanka is near bankruptcy and has severe shortages of essentials from food, fuel, medicines, and cooking gas to toilet paper and matchst...
Death toll in Sri Lanka violence rises to eightMahinda Rajapaksa, 76, resigned as Sri Lankan Prime Minister on Monday amid unprecedented economic turmoil, hours after his supporters atta...
Ancestral home of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksas set on fire in HambantotaVideo footage showed the entire house of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his younger brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Medam...
Rise of Tamil Progressive Alliance in Sri Lankan politicsThe TPA speaks for 1.5 lakh people employed in the tea estates, according to Palani Thigambaram, a former Minister widely credited with bui...
Mahinda Rajapaksa blames Sri Lanka president for breakdown of party unity talksFormer Sri Lankan leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, who leads a rival faction of the ruling SLFP, has blamed his successor President Maithripala Si...
Floods, landslides kill 17, maroon 1 million in Sri LankaFloods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Sri Lanka have killed at least 17 people and marooned nearly a million in the past four d...
14 killed, 750,000 affected in Sri Lanka floods, mudslides14 people have been killed & 750,000 affected in Sri Lanka due to floods and mudslides caused by heavy rains across the country in the past...
9 killed, 750,000 affected in Sri Lanka floods, mudslidesThe worst affected was Rilpola town in the central hill district of Badulla where five people were killed as mounds of earth fell on homes.
India gives relief goods to Sri Lankan landslide victimsIndia today handed over relief goods worth Rs 5 million to Sri Lanka for victims of last month's devastating landslide that killed 13 peopl...
Sri Lanka confirms 10 deaths in landslideMeanwhile, authorities warned of landslides in six other mountainous districts as heavy rain continued to lash most parts of the Island nat...
Sri Lanka landslide: India pledges assistance to ColomboIndia has pledged Rs five million as immediate relief for victims of landslide in Sri Lanka and is also considering medium and long-term as...
Nearly 200 people buried in massive landslide in Sri LankaThe landslide struck yesterday and wiped out 120 workers' homes at the Meeriabedda tea estate in the central Badulla district.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa appoints Tamil leader V S Radhakrishnan as deputy ministerAhead of the Uva election, Mahinda Rajapaksa rewarded two more allies representing the Tamil community with similar deputy ministerial posi...
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa appoints Tamil leader as deputy ministerAhead of the Uva election, Rajapaksa rewarded two more allies representing the Tamil community with similar deputy ministerial positions.
Sri Lanka: Mahinda Rajapaksa suffers major setback in provincial polls; UPFA's popularity dropsIn a major blow to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his ruling coalition's popularity dwindled by an unprecedented 23 per cent .
- Indians among illegal immigrants arrested in Sri Lanka
Two Indian nationals were among a group of 53 people bound for Australia arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, police said today.