Year: 2025
Vegetable shortages loom as floods devastate farmlands
A shortage of vegetables is expected nationwide after widespread flooding and landslides destroyed plantations and submerged key agricultural regions, officials and industry sources...
Floods isolate Sri Lanka hospitals; staff and patients running low on food
Hospitals across several flood-hit districts are struggling to support stranded staff and patients as food supplies dwindle and access routes remain cut off,...
Sri Lanka declares emergency as toll from floods, mudslides hits 159
Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on Saturday and appealed for international assistance as the death toll from floods and mudslides triggered...
Hundreds dead and missing in flooding across South East Asia
Hundreds are dead and missing in South East Asia, where some of the heaviest rain in decades has swept the region. Monsoon rain...
Delayed, reduced fertilizer subsidy leaving farmers ‘helpless’
The government has yet to deliver the fertilizer subsidy promised to farmers and has further restricted it to paddy cultivation, opposition lawmaker Ranjith...
Nawaz and Afridi blow Sri Lanka away to seal tri-series for Pakistan
Pakistan thundered to victory in the final of the tri-series, their attack blazing through the last nine Sri Lanka wickets for 30 runs,...
People didn’t listen to evacuation call; now, not enough boats to rescue them – T.B. Sarath
People refused to evacuate to safety despite being forewarned about the present natural disaster, said deputy minister T.B. Sarath. Referring to the situation...
High costs and tariffs push Sri Lanka’s rubber exports to historic lows
Sri Lanka must urgently address the continued decline in rubber export earnings, which have fallen below US$950 million this year, Export Development Board...
Flooding puts Colombo water supply at ‘significant risk,’ officials warn
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board said that rising water levels in the Kelani River could disrupt operations at the Ambatale Water...
Trump vows to “permanently pause” migration from “third world countries”
U.S President Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause migration from all third world countries” after the shooting of two National Guards...
