HL: COLOMBO (News 1st); The Department of Meteorology announced that a few showers may occur in Western and Southern provinces. Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places elsewhere during the evening or night. Fairly heavy showers above 75 mm can be expected at some places in the Cent...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Department of Meteorology announced that atmospheric condition is getting favorable for evening thundershowers in Northern, North-central, Eastern, and Uva provinces during the next few days. Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Central, North-central, Easte...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Meteorological Department has issued an Amber alert for severe lightning today (14). Accordingly, thundershowers accompanied by severe lightning are likely to occur at several places in Uva, Eastern, Central and North-Central provinces and in Vavuniya and Mullaitivu distri...

COLOMBO (News 1st); A landslide near Ginigathhena on the Hatton-Colombo main road this morning has disrupted traffic. Nuwara Eliya District Assistant Director of the Disaster Management Center, Ranjith Alahakoon stated that one lane of the road has been blocked due to the landslide. Efforts to...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Three persons who went to bathe at Ramboda Falls in Kotmale have gone missing, Police reports. Police stated that a group from Vavuniya had gone to bathe in the river near the waterfall this afternoon (12), and seven persons have been swept away due to the sudden increase in w...