United States President Donald Trump has agreed to suspend his planned bombing of Iran for two weeks, following his threat...
… announces temporary relief package President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday acknowledged in Parliament that the import of substandard coal had...
The District Secretary of Colombo has urged residents living along both sides of roads in low-lying areas, from Kaduwela to Malabe, Athurugiriya to Malabe, and Malabe...
The situation report issued at 6:00AM by the Disaster Management Center today [30th November 2025] confirms that 159 persons have lost their lives and 203 persons...
Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Sultan Ahmed Mosque – widely known as the Blue Mosque – in his first visit to a Muslim place of...
Torrential rains have triggered floods and landslides across parts of southern Asia, killing around 600 people. Monsoon rain exacerbated by tropical storms caused some of the...
Venezuela has accused US President Donald Trump of making a “colonialist threat” after he said the airspace around the country should be considered closed. The country’s...
The National Disaster Management Council convened on Thursday (27) night at the Ministry of Defence under the leadership of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The meeting focused...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake instructed District Secretaries to proceed with rescue and relief operations for affected communities without allowing financial constraints to hinder their work. The...
Weather forecast issued by the Department of Meteorology at 2.00 AM on 30th November 2025 Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in the Northern, North-central,...
Warning for Cyclonic storm “Ditwah” in the vicinity of Sri Lanka Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre at 2.00 a.m. 30th November 2025 for...
Sri Lanka has once again been submerged not by unprecedented rainfall but by decades of political negligence, environmental crime, and institutional paralysis, says a climate expert....
Attack helicopters to launch operations as weather clears In an unprecedented regional humanitarian deployment, India has positioned its most powerful aircraft carrier — INS Vikrant —...
(AFP )Sri Lankan troops battled to rescue hundreds of people marooned by rising floodwaters Friday as weather-related deaths rose to 69, with another 34 people missing....