Although a date has not been fixed, the Sri Lanka Navy said yesterday that it is now prepared to send a deployment to the Red Sea to assist in defending shipping lanes from Houthi activities, once the government green lights and authorizes the deployment.

Measures will be taken to introduce a new Bill through the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) to protect the consumers who are inconvenienced due to online businesses, Trade, Commerce and Food Security Minister Nalin Fernando said today.

The Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) petitioned the Supreme Court challenging the ‘Microfinance and Credit Regulatory Authority Bill’, stating that it fails to sufficiently address or introduce a fit scheme to enable the regulation of the extortive and predatory practices that microfinance lenders engage in at the grassroots levels.

Eighteen people were killed and 130 injured in Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities on Tuesday morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky says.

The US says its forces have carried out strikes in Iraq on three facilities used by Iran-backed militia.

A group of senior IT professionals has warned that the Online Safety Bill may be used to cripple opposition election campaigns, suppress journalists reporting on corruption and even severely impact the IT industry.

Sri Lanka and India held discussion focused on strengthening bilateral ties and collaboration in the technology sector, particularly around Sri Lanka’s unique digital ID project

Motor Traffic Department is to take stern action against motorists who have not transferred their vehicles in their own names to avoid paying tax and also to show minimum number of ownership of a vehicle, as “the value of a vehicle is assessed by the number of its previous owners”.

Sri Lanka is off to a promising start in 2024 as it welcomes over 142,000 visitors during the first three weeks.

A manhunt is under way in the US state of Illinois after multiple shootings left eight people dead, police say.

Sri Lanka issued 849,829 passports last year, underscoring the ongoing trend of individuals seeking to migrate for greener pastures amidst the economic crisis but still fell short from all time high of 2022.

Tourism Minister Harin Fernando recently announced plans to introduce a new data collection system within the year.

At least 27 people have been killed in a shelling attack in the Russian-held city of Donetsk, the Moscow-installed leader of the region says.

More than 25,000 people have now been killed in Gaza during Israel's offensive there, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Jan 21- President Ranil Wickremesinghe had a fruitful meeting with Sri Lankan entrepreneurs based in Kenya, discussing collaborative opportunities and fostering stronger ties between the two nations.

Government’s move to pass the Online Safety Bill in Parliament this week and to bring repressive laws to take the country into a dictatorship is a narrow effort to suppress right to expression in winning the upcoming election, leading media and civil society groups voiced their opinion yesterday.

The Yukthiya operation should not be a drama but should be aimed at apprehending main drug dealers in the country, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said yesterday.

Commenting on the sky rocketing vegetable prices, the Trade, Commerce, and Food Security Minister Nalin Fernando said if vegetables were imported, vegetables such as a kilo of carrot, beans and leeks can be supplied at Rs. 300 to Rs. 350.

A number of US military personnel have been injured in a missile attack on an airbase in western Iraq.

Thirteen schoolchildren aged nine and 10 are confirmed to have died after a fire broke out in a school dormitory in central China, the country's Xinhua state news agency reported.