Here’s everything you need to know about the floods in Sri Lanka and the latest travel advice. Where in Sri Lanka has it flooded? As river levels in Sri Lanka continue to rise,

The death toll across Sri Lanka rose to 56 on Friday. On Thursday, more than 25 people were reported killed in landslides in the central mountainous, tea-growing regions of Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, which is about 300km (186 miles) east of the capital, Colombo. Others lost their lives in landslides in other parts of Sri Lanka.

Cries in silence, her veins robbed by greedy hands, each grain of stolen sand buries a future beneath the lands” — these lines from the song Karunilam (‘black sand’ in Tamil), composed by the young artiste Eric Fernando,

The recent GSER 2025 shows Asia is leading the global innovation shift, with cities such as Bengaluru, Tokyo, and Hong Kong climbing the ranks. Importantly, Sri Lanka is part of this wave. Sri Lanka’s entrepreneurial landscape is undergoing a transformation,

The death toll from floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra island has risen to 174, up from the previous 94, the country's disaster mitigation agency said on Friday, adding that dozens remain missing.