OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge following a February mass shooting that leftContinue Reading The post OpenAI apologizes for not reporting Canada mass shooter appeared first on N

Nahida Akter and Sarmin Sultana of Bangladesh have been fined 10 per cent of their match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct.

Bake House Kandy relaunches with new brand identity, sustainable concept and enhanced dining experience

The Department of Meteorology issued an advisory for severe lightning for the Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-Eestern Provinces and the Galle, Matara, Kandy and Nuwara-Eliya districts after 1.00 p.m today.

A suspect linked to an organised drug trafficking network has been arrested in Homagama with 12 kg of heroin worthContinue Reading The post Suspect arrested with heroin worth Rs. 120 million appeared first on Newswire.

Fitch Ratings has warned that emerging markets in Asia could face rising cost pressures across agribusiness and food supply chains if a prolonged US-Iran conflict disrupts global fertiliser supplies during the planting s

One of the four accused who stood indicted with the murder of a constable during a raid on an illicit brewery was found guilty and sentenced to death by Balapitiya High Court Judge Ruchira Weliwatta.

Whilst raising concerns on the hacking of US $ 2.5 million, which was sent as an instalment payment for a loan which the government of Sri Lanka has borrowed, the Front Line Socialist Party (FLSP) yesterday called for an

For many Sri Lankans, passport power is not something learned from an index or a website. It is learned in embassy waiting rooms. In rejected applications. In deadlines missed because approvals did not arrive on time.

Sri Lanka’s first digital motor insurance card will be introduced from May 1, the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and EconomicContinue Reading The post Sri Lanka to launch digital motor insurance card on May 1 appeared fi

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka have exceeded 840,000 so far this year, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) said.Continue Reading The post Tourist arrivals top 840,000 so far this year, SLTDA says appeared

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The association called ’Free Lawyers’, which exposed the US $ 2.5 million cyber theft, urged Finance Ministry Secretary Harshana Suriyapperuma to step down.

Sri Lanka is witnessing a troubling surge in sophisticated scams, with fraudsters increasingly exploiting public trust, government identities, and digital platforms to steal personal and financial information.

As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, researchers are warning this mental outsourcing comes with a cost. When research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna was looking for interns, she noticed that cove

  A new national digital platform, the “Sri Lanka Event Calendar,” was launched on Thursday (23) to provide a centralizedContinue Reading The post ‘Sri Lanka Event Calendar’ website launched to boost tourism, event secto

A social media user has successfully appealed to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka to be unblocked by theContinue Reading The post User unblocked from Police Facebook page after HRC appeal appeared first on Newswi

JXG’s IPO subject to criticism over 243mn shares of 500mn being preferentially allotted to strategic investors

Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century mathematicians to JRR Tolkien. In an exclusive interview with the BBC for its 750th birthday, its librar

Police have seized large quantities of narcotics and arrested over 156,000 suspects since the beginning of the “Rata Ekata” nationalContinue Reading The post Over 156,000 arrested since the beginning of ‘Ratama Ekata’ op

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of killing his father with a sharp weapon. The incident occurred on theContinue Reading The post Son arrested over father’s killing in Athirahapitiya appeared first on Newswire.

An exhibition of clean hitting by Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal ensured Sai Sudarshan’s measured 100 off 58 balls ended in a losing cause as Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) beat Gujarat Titans (GT) by five wickets a

The fourth day of the “Ehipassiko – Walk for Peace” began today (April 25) from the Beligammana Rajamaha Viharaya inContinue Reading The post Walk for Peace enters fourth day appeared first on Newswire.

The theft of US $ 2.5 million by cybercriminals who breached the computer systems of the Finance Ministry has come under the spotlight of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is closely watching the situation, a

Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, says “no meeting is planned to take place between Iran and the US”.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR 25 APRIL 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 25 April 2026 by the Department of Meteorology  Misty conditions can be expected at some places in the Central, Sabaragamuwa, Uva and Northcentral provinces and

Showers or thundershowers are expected at several locations in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces, as well as in Galle, Matara, Kandy,Continue Reading The post Weather : Showers after 2 pm in several areas appeared first

Warm Weather Advisory Issued by the Natural Hazards Early Warning Centre Issued at 3.30 p.m. on 24 April 2026, valid for 25 April 2026. Heat index, the temperature felt on human body is likely to increase up to ‘Caution

The Opposition yesterday called for the entire Cabinet-of-Ministers to accept responsibility for the coal scam. Addressing the media at the Flower Road Office of UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, former Foreign Minister P

The Colombo High Court yesterday ordered that the case, filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and his grand-aunt Daisy Forrest Wickramas

 A three-judge bench of the Colombo Special High Court yesterday rejected a request by former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundera to introduce additional facts to a statement he had previously made from

Former Minister Johnston Fernando was yesterday granted bail by the Wattala Magistrate’s Court after being in remand custody for four months over the alleged misuse of a Lanka Sathosa lorry. When the case was taken up, t

Thousands of pets across Sri Lanka have been left traumatised and hearing-impaired following the Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebrations, with more than 10,000 cats and dogs affected by the intense noise of firecrackers,

Replicating conditions seen in past episodes of currency trouble after credit driven by central bank re-finance.

Fx markets hamstrung by moral suasion, confidence undermined

A Rs.13.2 billion fraud that had taken place within the bank.

Market turnover was 2.068 billion rupees.