Sri Lanka’s healthcare services are expected to face significant problems today (January 16) as 72 health unions, which include various professionals like laboratory technicians, radiology technicians, pharmacists, public health inspectors, midwives, drug compounders, and entomology officers, have decided to go on strike.

Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), a body comprising internet and technology companies in the world, and its members, expressed concern about the Online Safety Bill and called for extensive revisions and overhaul of it.

The United Nations and rights organisations have condemned the ongoing anti-narcotics crackdown in Sri Lanka that has led to the “arbitrary arrest” of 30,000 suspects.

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested another person in connection with the alleged leakage of Agricultural Science I & II question papers of the 2023 G.C.E. Advanced Level (A/L) examination.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has issued a message for 2024 Thai Pongal day.

Jio Platforms, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries, has expressed interest in buying a stake in Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, the state-owned telecommunication company.

National People’s Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced today that if the NPP government comes into power in the future, they intend to prevent politicians from misusing public funds.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested an Agricultural Science teacher of a popular government school in Ampara in connection with the alleged leakage of questions of the 2023 G.C.E Advanced Level examination’s Agricultural Science I & II papers before the exam.

Importers of milk powder in Sri Lanka have decided to increase the retail prices of imported milk powder with effect from next week.

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Finance has decided to increase the fees for casino licenses and renewals starting from January 1, 2024.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has proposed to reduce the electricity tariff by 3.34 percent from February 1 after it recorded a profit last year following a long lapse of nine years.

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence strongly denied allegations that a group of Sri Lankans were taken hostage by the Al-Shabaab militant group after a Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) helicopter crash-landed in Somalia.

A Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Mi-17 helicopter carrying personnel on a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has crash-landed due to bad weather conditions earlier on Friday (January 12).

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) applauds Sri Lanka on significant progress in implementing economic reforms.

Sri Lanka’s State Minister for Tourism Diana Gamage, predicts that the revitalization of the tourism industry in Sri Lanka will attract 02 million tourists in 2024, generating estimated revenue of USD 06 billion.

More than 60 inmates of the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre have reportedly escaped.