The Government has started a project to divert the waters of Yan Oya with Chinese aid. The proposed reservoir of this project will not only inundate a large extent of paddy lands which are presently ...

COLOMBO, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Sinhala Pedige Athanayake, a Sri Lankan farmer in his late 50s, is now enjoying his life to the fullest. Sitting under a shade in his house, Athanayake resides in a small ...

Sri Lankan police have carried out a wave of arrests after protests by thousands of farmers in the Northwest province against their forced eviction to make way for an irrigation scheme. The police ...

A local magistrate in Sri Lanka granted bail last Tuesday for 21 farmers who have been imprisoned on remand for more than a month after confronting a minister over broken promises on the Deduru Oya ...

The Irrigation Department’s Hydrology and Disaster Management Division has warned that as very high rainfall has occurred upstream and the middle reach catchment areas of the Maha Oya basin and by ...

Vahidi accused by Argentina of orchestrating 1994 attack on Jewish community centre Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi (right) and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe (left) inaugurating the Uma Oya ...