Just off the popular beaches of southern Sri Lanka, a design-forward lifestyle district is flourishing, inspired by heritage crafts and Dutch colonial roots.

Flood maps show a number of areas in the southern and western provinces are currently being affected by floods. Thousands have been affected by the floods, and reportedly one person has died. The ...

COLOMBO, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan government will soon outline a comprehensive road map and will appoint experts to help the country fight climate change and cut greenhouse gas emissions ...

Fairly strong winds of about (30-40) kmph can be expected at times over North-western, North-central, Northern, Central and Southern provinces and in Trincomalee district.

The tsunami destroyed the coir (coconut fiber) industry in southern Sri Lanka, sweeping away the livelihoods of many of the country’s poorest workers. In 2006, Oxfam commissioned a study of the market ...

COLOMBO, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Five persons were killed in a shooting incident on Monday morning in Beliatta in Southern Province of Sri Lanka, police said. Police spokesman Nihal Thalduwa said the ...

India donated digital equipment worth Rs 300 million to 200 schools in Sri Lanka's Southern Province, enhancing educational modernization.

When the Dutch possessions in Sri Lanka, transferred to the British in 1796, were granted the status of a Crown Colony in 1801, the existing system of regional administration that had consisted of ...

Beaches along Sri Lanka’s southern coast, a tourism hotspot, are increasingly being contaminated with microplastic pollution, a survey has found. The study found that 60 percent of sand samples ...

Southern Province, Sri Lanka – Lochana is 10 years old. Every morning, he gets up and lights an incense stick, which he places in a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw parked outside the family home in ...

Sri Lanka presidential election: Sri Lankan voters face a complex choice in the upcoming presidential election amid economic crisis and calls for change.