The government of Sri Lanka in order to conserve plants native to the Northern Province is looking at setting up a botanical garden in the North.

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said he will face any challenge in fighting against smoking. The Minister was addressing the gathering after an anti-smoking walk in Colombo yesterday.

At the request of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), the Central Environmental Authority (CEA), in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), organized a stakeholder

The Transport Ministry has formulated the draft Urban Transport Master Plan for the Colombo Metropolitan Region and the suburbs to address issues in the transport sector including heavy congestion in the Colombo city within the next 20 years.

Platinum 1, Colombo’s elite lifestyle destination which redefines exclusive luxury living standards achieved a major milestone with the unveiling of Sri Lanka’s first ever multi-elevated automated

Initial investigations conducted by the Piliyandala police have revealed that ammonia gas which leaked from a factory in Piliyandala causing 72 persons to be hospitalised had been formed due to an

Forty employees of a chemical factory and 30 persons residing in the neighbourhood were admitted to hospital following a gas leak at the factory in Piliyandala early yesterday.

A toxic gas leak from a factory in a suburb of Sri Lankan capital prompted authorities to close the factory on Tuesday after more than 70 factory workers and residents near the factory were hospita

Sri Lanka’s capital and bordering areas are in line for an $88 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to boost water supplies to 24 hours.

The Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council (PHD- CMC) yesterday said the city had recorded a 17 per cent increase in the number of dengue cases, as opposed to the reduction repor

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