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The Department of Meteorology has issued an advisory for severe lightning in several provinces and districts today (11). MORE..
11 May 2024 (5:08 PM)
As the Olympic flame touched down in France from Greece, excitement brewed for the relay involving 10,000 torchbearers, representing diverse stories of achievement. Among them shines a Paris-based, Sri Lankan-born baker Tharshan Selvarajah who only arrived in France for the first time in 2006. MORE..
11 May 2024 (11:20 PM)
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council "reconsider the matter favorably." MORE>.
10 May 2024 (11:58 PM)
A bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in Indonesia s West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others, officials said Sunday. MORE..
12 May 2024 (12:58 PM)
State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has directed him to conduct a comprehensive analysis of interest rates applicable to the savings of senior citizens. MORE..
11 May 2024 (11:37 AM)
