Amid the hustle and bustle of Pettah, one of the busiest marketplaces in the Colombo district, Sri Lanka’s commercial region, ...

The sawfish, a large ray, is easily recognized by its long, flattened snout edged with sharp, tooth-like projections that ...

This past November and December Ditwah showed us how dark, eerie and haunting catastrophes cyclones can be. Past generations have suffered as shown in 1911, the Canberra Times reporting the great ...

Sri Lanka has just introduced a four‑day workweek—not to boost work‑life balance, but because the war in Iran is threatening to drain its petrol tanks dry. The government has declared every Wednesday ...

Amid the ongoing Middle East crisis, Sri Lanka has declared every Wednesday a public holiday to conserve fuel as the island nation grapples with possible shortages following the US and Israel’s war ...

In late November 2025, Cyclone Ditwah caused severe flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka’s central hill country, significantly affecting tea-growing regions and plantation communities. Reports ...

The statement from Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC) comes after Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Vijitha Herath, expressed confidence that the request to his Indian counterpart, Dr S. Jaishankar, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—The initial notice that an American submarine had sunk an enemy ship for the first time since World War II came in the form of a brief 5 a.m. email from the U.S. Indo-Pacific ...

WASHINGTON-The US is pressing Sri Lanka’s government not to repatriate the survivors from the Iranian warship it sank this week, as well as the crew of a second Iranian ship that is in Sri Lankan ...

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