Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn into ... island nation's unprecedented economic crisis propelled him to a ...

A trash dump landslide in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo killed at least 16 and injured over a dozen, military spokesman and hospital officials said on Saturday, April 15, as emergency workers dug ...

Flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rains in Sri Lanka have killed at least seven people, the country's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) has said. In Sitawaka - outside the capital ...

Developing a system for transmission of early warning information about long-travelling landslides and support of risk assessment Landslides occur frequently in Sri Lanka, where there has been a ...

Floods and landslides in tropical Sri Lanka have killed at least 164 people, authorities said on Monday, as a cyclone grew in the Bay of Bengal, churning towards Bangladesh More than 150 people are ...

The rains have come again hard, causing flooding, landslides, and displacement, wreaking havoc on already vulnerable ...

His landslide win in 2019 was followed by another victory in the general elections of 2020, when his Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party won an overwhelming majority in parliament.

Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn in to office Monday and vowed to restore public faith in politics, but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an ...

Sri Lanka's new government announced a probe on ... Rajapaksa declared his candidacy and won the November vote in a landslide after promising to stamp out Islamist extremists.

He succeeded Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office at the peak of Sri Lanka's 2022 financial crisis following the government's first-ever foreign debt default and months of punishing food ...