A network of social media accounts linked to Sri Lanka and several other countries has been spreading AI-generated anti-immigration content targeting the United Kingdom, according to a BBC investigation.

Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya said the government has managed the energy crisis through a sustainable process without placing a burden on the public, while warning that the crisis is still not over.

An earthquake ​with a ‌preliminary magnitude of 6.3 ​hit northern ​Japan on Friday, ⁠the Japan ​Meteorological Agency ​said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children.

The International Monetary Fund no longer confers with him because he has been critical of the organisation, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said today.

Africa’s top health agency has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province.

A 56-year-old father and his 25-year-old daughter were killed in a wild elephant attack in the Hettipola area of Wilgamuwa on Friday morning.

The Sri Lankan Rupee has weakened further against the US Dollar, with the selling rate crossing the Rs. 331 mark for the first time after December in 2023, according to the latest exchange rate report issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on May 15

Oil prices gained about 2% after U.S. President Donald Trump said he and ‌China’s Xi Jinping agree Iran cannot have nuclear weapons and as concerns persisted over ship attacks and seizures despite Tehran saying about 30 vessels crossed the Strait

Ports, Civil Aviation and Energy Minister Aruna Karunathilleke confirmed to the Daily Mirror today that another transaction error had occurred in the payment of 74,000 UAE dirhams to a SriLankan Airlines service provider.

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya today welcomed the initiative by Sri Lankan banks to collaborate with PayPal as the country advances its digital economy ambitions.

Claiming that there is no major disaster situation reported in the country due to the previaling rainy weather, Director of the Disaster Management Centre, Pradeep Kodippili said today that 104 people have been sheltered in two safe centres in the Ka

Farmers in the Nuwara Eliya area have begun handing over their potato harvest to the government under a special purchasing programme introduced to address the marketing difficulties faced by local potato growers.

A group of people who had applied for jobs in Israel staged a protest in front of the Presidential Secretariat today, demanding solutions to the difficulties faced by them who claim to have been waiting in the web system for more than 15 months after

A jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million to the family of a woman who was killed in the March 2019 crash of an Ethiopian ​Airlines Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab 737 MAX.

Madonna, Shakira and K-pop megastars BTS will headline a Super Bowl-style halftime show at the World Cup final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FIFA said Thursday.

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.

The government is continuously wooing opposition members but no one will join, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Mujibur Rahman said today.

U.S. ​President Donald ‌Trump said ​China ​wants to buy ⁠oil ​from the ​United States.

India has raised petrol and diesel prices for the first time in four ​years by 3 rupees ($0.03) per litre, or more than 3%, according to ‌retailers in Delhi on Friday, to recoup some of the losses incurred due to higher global crude oil prices.

Vegetable prices are expected to increase in the coming days as adverse weather conditions continue to disrupt supplies across the country, while the Department of Meteorology yesterday warned that the prevailing rainy conditions are likely to persis

Claiming that more than 100 incidents of illegal archaeological excavations have been reported so far this year, Director General of Archaeology Senarath Wickramasinghe said yesterday most of the illegal excavations are driven by myths of buried trea

The three-year term of the 7th National Police Commission (NPC) is set to expire today (May 15), bringing to an end the tenure of the independent oversight body appointed in 2023.

Sri Lanka’s businesses and households borrowed at one of the fastest monthly paces on record in March, even as the economy began showing signs of fresh stress from the Iran war, raising questions over whether firms were rushing to secure loans befo

Concerns have been raised within the legal fraternity over the continuous delay in appointing judges to the Superior Courts, with eight vacancies currently remaining unfilled in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal for several months.

The U.S. Justice Department is close to dropping criminal ​fraud charges against Gautam Adani, an Indian billionaire who has promised to invest $10 billion in the U.S. economy, according to ‌two sources familiar with the matter.