Sri Lanka Floods
India News | Fresh Delhi | Tuesday June 6, 2017
Outer Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today held talks with her Sri Lankan counterpart Ravi Karunanayake and discussed a number of key issues besides exploring ways to further ramp up bilateral ties.
India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 30, 2017
Indian Navy diving and medical teams joined rescue efforts of Sri Lankan authorities in flood-hit regions as the death toll in the country’s worst torrential rains since two thousand three climbed today to 193.
World News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 30, 2017
At least six people were killed as Cyclone Mora made landfall in Bangladesh today, bringing winds of up to one hundred fifty kilometres per hour and hurting several houses. The authorities scrambled to evacuate over half-a-million people from Bangladesh’s coastal areas.
World News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 30, 2017
Sri Lankan authorities today grappled with the paucity of safe drinking water in flood-hit regions. They appealed for public assistance in cleaning up wells contaminated during the country’s worst torrential rains in fourteen years that has claimed one hundred eighty three lives.
World News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 30, 2017
Cyclone Mora made landfall in Bangladesh today, bringing winds of up to one hundred fifty kilometres per hour and hurting houses. The authorities evacuated at least three lakh people from Bangladesh’s coastal areas.
World News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 29, 2017
Rescuers in Sri Lanka today pulled out more figures buried in the mudslides triggered by the country’s worst torrential rains in fourteen years, taking the number of deaths to 164. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said one hundred four people are still missing while eighty eight remain in hospital.
India News | Edited by Nishant Saxena | Sunday May 28, 2017
India is sending three Navy ships with supplies and other aid to Sri Lanka, which has appealed for international assistance after floods and landslides killed at least one hundred thirteen people since last week.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday May 26, 2017
Flooding and landslides killed at least ninety one people and left another one hundred ten missing in Sri Lanka as the monsoon set in Friday, dumping record rainfalls in many parts of the island, authorities said.
World News | Reuters | Thursday May 26, 2016
Floods in Sri Lanka which have compelled more than 350,000 people from their homes have left some families with nothing, the Crimson Cross said on Wednesday as it launched an emergency appeal to produce ease to ems of thousands of people in the country.
World News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 23, 2016
Rescuers on Sunday pulled out twenty three more figures from the debris of disastrous landslides in Sri Lanka, taking the toll to ninety two while over one hundred people remained missing in floods triggered by rains even as ease aid poured in from across the world, including India, for lakhs displaced.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday May 22, 2016
Sri Lankan soldiers pulled more bods from landslides and distributed food and water Sunday to hundreds of thousands compelled into shelters after major floods hit the island.
World News | Associated Press | Saturday May 21, 2016
Sri Lanka’s government has raised the death toll from landslides and strenuous flooding around the island nation to 73, as soldiers proceed searching for scores of people missing since deadly landslides struck the hill country several days ago.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday May 21, 2016
Foreign aid began arriving today in Sri Lanka, bringing help to half a million people who have been driven from their homes by powerful rains and deadly landslides, as floodwaters subsided slightly, officials said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday May 20, 2016
Sri Lankans clambered onto rubber dinghies and makeshift rafts Friday to flee their flooded capital Colombo as fresh downpours elsewhere hampered ease efforts.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday December 27, 2014
Floods and mudslides triggered by mighty rain have killed at least fourteen people in Sri Lanka and driven 80,000 from their homes, police and officials said Friday, as the country marked the 10th anniversary of the tsunami.
