SriLankan Airlines improved its underlying operating performance in 2024/25, but engine shortages, 487 flight cancellations, falling passenger revenue and LKR 31.6 billion in finance costs pushed the Group into a LKR 2.74
A romance fraudster who deceived multiple men into funding her luxury lifestyle by claiming she was about to inherit a vast fortune has pleaded guilty to a series of theft and fraud
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Donald Trump has given his backing to Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, only weeks after branding the agreement an “act of great stupidity.”
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Al-Qaeda and its affiliates now command a global force far larger than the one that carried out the September 11 attacks, according to new intelligence assessed by the United Nations, underscoring how
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President Xi Jinping’s relentless purge of China’s military and defence-industrial elite has taken a new and revealing turn, deepening doubts about whether the People’s Liberation Army is truly ready to match the
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More than 3,000 government schools across Sri Lanka are functioning with fewer than 10 teachers, revealing a growing structural strain on the country’s education system, according to the Department of Census and
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Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama has issued a warrant for the arrest and production of former Sri Lanka Cricket Chief Financial Officer Piyal Nandana Dissanayake, who is accused of criminal misappropriation
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There are serious errors in recent public statements made by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna General Secretary Tilvin Silva regarding Sri Lanka’s coal crisis, according to Frontline Socialist Party Education Secretary Pubudu Jayagoda. Speaking
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The United National Party has begun a major structural transformation to adapt to a rapidly changing digital society, with party leader and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressing the need to protect Sri
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A county mayor in South Korea has sparked widespread controversy after suggesting that women from Sri Lanka and Vietnam be “imported” as brides to address population decline in rural areas, prompting criticism
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A 22-year-old woman died by suicide after jumping in front of a train near the Dehiwala railway station yesterday (04), with police stating that she had been unable to cope with constant
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As Sri Lanka celebrates its 78th Independence Day, renewed attention is being drawn to a long-overlooked chapter of the island’s anti-colonial struggle: the role of Muslim patriots who fought against foreign invaders
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In the fjords of northern British Columbia, humpback whales execute one of nature’s most extraordinary cooperative hunting techniques: bubble-net feeding. A group of whales dives beneath a shoal of herring, with one
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President Trump has issued a stark warning to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as nuclear talks are scheduled to take place on Friday in Muscat, Oman. The negotiations, aimed at curbing Tehran’s
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ElevenLabs, a UK company specializing in ultra-realistic AI-generated human voices and music, has secured $500 million in a funding round that values the business at $11 billion, more than triple its worth
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Alphabet, the technology conglomerate behind Google, announced fourth-quarter revenue of $113.8 billion on Wednesday, an 18 percent increase year-on-year and slightly above Wall Street expectations. Net income rose 30 percent to $34.5
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