A grade eight student was seized while sitting on submerged steps at the tank. Villagers searched overnight and cut the spill with a backhoe to lower the water.
A five-year-old staying with family in Aralaganwila and the homeowner who went to his aid died after touching a live wire strung to keep elephants out.
The Araliya Hotel Group mixed half a tonne of Christmas cake at the Nuwara Eliya lakeside on October 23, opening its preparations for the tourist season.
The SAMHITA project will digitise 100 historic manuscripts from the Colombo temple's collection.
Final screen tests for James Bond role set in London; contenders include Turner, Lowden and O'Connor.
The Department of Examinations has set the 2026 GCE O/L aesthetic practical tests for October 27 to November 6. Admission cards have been posted.
The Irrigation Department warns low-lying residents as one low-pressure system clears the island and another forms behind it. Rain may continue to 27 October.
Wildlife vets, the Army and police are treating a wild elephant that collapsed in Ampara. Flooding at the site has forced crews to raise the ground with sand.
A consultative committee chaired by Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya was briefed on digital equipment for schools and on extending the Grade 1 reforms in 2027.
Tri-Forces and wildlife officers establish joint operations room at Army HQ to track elephants and combat wildlife crime.
Conservation group names 13 endangered wild elephants needing security force protection, including tusker Agbo; disputes Wildlife DG's Kavantissa remark.
The storm is named and heading for Andhra Pradesh. No direct hit on Sri Lanka, but a Kalu Ganga flood warning is now in force.
Special operations launched on the Deputy Defence Minister's instructions, with a calf rescued in Anuradhapura and two more elephants monitored.
Monks and residents of Usgala Siyambalangamuwa gathered at a temple near where the tusker died, six days after a burial the report says drew no honours.
Met Department reports low-pressure area with heavy rainfall expected in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and North Western provinces.
The NBRO has issued 24-hour landslide warnings for nine districts, and the Met Department expects over 100mm of rain in five provinces on Friday.
The stage and screen actor, who worked as a prison officer before turning to acting, died at a private hospital in Colombo on Thursday.
Bus overturns near Saliyawewa on Anuradhapura–Puttalam road in wet weather, killing one and injuring 10. Second incident on this road in five days.
A bystander's video of a Colombo traffic officer lifting a dog across a busy road has circulated widely, and the Police have publicised it themselves.
Police say she was leaning over the well at Maduruppitiya in Warakapola to hold a torch while her father prepared a rope and bucket.
Three workers buried as earth mound collapses at construction site. One dies; two others not seriously hurt.
NWSDB maintenance at Thuruwila plant will suspend water supply from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. across eleven Anuradhapura areas.
Emergency repairs to a leaking water main near D.S. Junction have closed a lane into Colombo, with police reporting heavy congestion on Wednesday morning.
Police find 2,078 undelivered letters at postman's home during search for illicit liquor. Letters held back for more than six years.