The United States is strengthening its global leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) by partnering with Sri Lanka to help shape the country s first national AI policy framework for higher education. MORE..
9 May 2026 (1:54 PM)
Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands will send planes to evacuate their citizens aboard the Tenerife-bound cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, Spain s interior minister said in Madrid on Saturday. MORE..
9 May 2026 (11:11 PM)
An Amber advisory has been issued by the Department of Meteorology for heavy rainfall in the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, Uva, North-Central, Northern provinces and in Galle, Matara, and Kurunegala districts. MORE..
9 May 2026 (3:56 PM)
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa claims that the government s decision to increase electricity tariffs is a way of placing the burden of importing substandard coal on the shoulders of electricity consumers in the country. MORE..
9 May 2026 (8:19 PM)
The low-level atmospheric disturbance in the vicinity of Sri Lanka is likely to develop into a low-pressure area around May 11, the Department of Meteorology said. MORE..
10 May 2026 (8:17 AM)
A Sri Lankan passenger who had arrived in the country carrying a consignment of the narcotic hashish has been arrested by officers of the Airport Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) earlier today (10). MORE..
10 May 2026 (9:16 AM)