COLOMBO, Sri Lanka LankaData has announced the public release of the Chat2Find Corpus, a major trilingual conversational dataset, marking a key milestone in Sri Lanka’s […]
Author: Arvin Jayasuriya
Governor Nandalal Acknowledges Over-Optimism, Commits to IMF Path Despite Hardship
Colombo – In a marked shift from earlier optimism, Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe has adopted a more measured and pragmatic stance as Sri Lanka […]
NewsDive Expands Beyond Borders, Offering AI-Curated News for a Global Audience
In a media landscape crowded with noise and fragmentation, NewsDive is emerging as a platform with ambitions far beyond Sri Lanka. While initially positioned as a smart […]
Leadership Beyond Cricket: Mahela Jayawardena to Captain Royal Colombo Golf Club
The Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC), one of Asia’s oldest and most storied sporting institutions, has entered a defining new phase with the formal appointment of Mahela Jayawardena as […]
Most of the 13 US bases in the Middle East have been destroyed and empty
Iran has carried out attacks on at least six U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the United States and Israel began operations against […]
Sri Lanka’s Geography Draws a New Kind of Attention
COLOMBO – On most world maps, Sri Lanka appears as a small, teardrop-shaped island just below India easy to miss against the vast expanse of […]
Janashakthi’s Long March: From Insurance Pioneer to JXG’s Market Ambition
In the shifting landscape of Sri Lanka’s financial sector, few corporate stories reflect reinvention and strategic timing as clearly as that of the Janashakthi Group now […]
Sri Lanka’s Fuel Shock Exposes Deep Economic Fault Lines as Crisis Risks Re-emerge
Sri Lanka’s latest fuel price increase has triggered a renewed wave of anxiety across an already fragile economy, raising serious concerns that the country may […]
LankaLaw Emerges as Sri Lanka’s Leading AI Legal Platform
Colombo, Sri Lanka – LankaLaw, a homegrown legal technology platform introduced in 2023, is rapidly redefining access to legal knowledge in Sri Lanka, evolving into what […]
Iran Targeted Diego Garcia Base with 4,000 Kilometre Ballistic Missiles
Diego Garcia, a British Indian Ocean Territory and the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago on July 02, 2013 in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory.
IMF Leverage and the Shadow of US Influence: Sri Lanka’s Tightrope Ahead of Key Reviews
As Sri Lanka approaches the combined fifth and sixth reviews of its IMF programme, the process is being framed as a routine assessment of fiscal […]
Sri Lanka Neutrality Reimagined: Disengagement Vs Balance Engagement
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake revealed today (20) the reasons behind the Government’s decision to refuse permission for Iranian naval vessels to enter Sri Lankan territorial waters.
AI Mart Rolls Out Mobile App to Scale Sri Lanka’s AI Adoption
Colombo – AI Mart has launched the mobile version of its AI marketplace, in a move aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence adoption across Sri Lanka’s […]
Justice Weeramantry & Nuclear Weapons
In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on whether the threat or use of […]
Sri Lanka’s Recovery in Peril as Cyclone Fallout Meets Oil Shock
Colombo, March 2026 – Sri Lanka’s fragile economic comeback is facing a brutal reality check. Just as the island began clawing its way out of its […]
Fuel Rationing Disrupts Justice System: JSC Urges Courts to Show Flexibility
Colombo, March 16 — Sri Lanka’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has issued a circular instructing judges across the country to take a flexible and pragmatic approach to court […]
Sri Lanka Stocks Slide as Global Turmoil and Oil Shock Trigger Market Rout
A deeper correction could potentially push the index toward 18,500 Colombo – Sri Lanka’s stock market took a sharp hit this week as rising global tensions and […]