55 year old shot dead in Panadura
A 55-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his residence in the Alubogahawatte area of Wanduramulla, Panadura, police said on Thursday. According to the Police Spokesman, two men arrived on a motorcycle and opened fire before fleeing the…
SinLlama: Sri Lanka launches largest Sinhala LLM with 10 million sentences
Researchers at the University of Moratuwa have developed the country’s first large-scale Sinhala-only large language model (LLM), a breakthrough in advancing local language computing. The model, named “SinLlama,” was built by continually pre-training Llama-3-8B with nearly 10 million Sinhala sentences….
Delegation of the US Congress HDP calls on PM Harini
A delegation from the U.S. Congress House Democracy Partnership (HDP) called on Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya at the Prime Minister’s office today (27). According to the Prime Minister’s Office, welcoming the delegation, the Prime Minister emphasized the importance of the…
Borella sunken road : Police notice to motorists
The two inbound lanes to Colombo from the Devi Balika Vidyalaya roundabout to the D.S. Senanayake Junction in Borella have been closed, the Police said. According to the Police, the road has been closed due to cracks and a sunken…
US combat ship USS Tulsa visits Colombo Port
The US Embassy in Sri Lanka says the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Tulsa (LCS 16) visited the Port of Colombo today, its last visit being in 2021 for the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise with the Sri…
Elephant calf killed in a road accident
A young elephant calf has been reported dead in a tragic accident near the Hiriwadunna reservoir on the Dambulla–Habarana road around 3:00 am today (27). According to reports, the young elephant calf had been struck by a prime mover (bulker)…
Central Expressway : Cabinet nod for construction contract
The Ministry of Transport and Highways says Cabinet approval has been granted for awarding the construction contract for the Kadawatha Interchange, which will connect the Outer Circular Highway and the Central Expressway, as well as for the first phase of…
Chemmani becomes Sri Lanka’s second largest mass grave
The Chemmani mass grave — designated a crime scene by the court — has been identified as the second largest mass grave in Sri Lanka based on the number of human skeletons discovered so far. Excavations at the mass grave…
Police sift through 500 CCTV cameras to nab Wellawatte robbery suspects
Police tracked down two robbery suspects by reviewing footage from nearly 500 CCTV cameras across Colombo and surrounding areas, following a daring early-morning theft in Wellawatte. The incident took place on August 15, around 4.25 a.m., when a female doctor…
2025 National Immunisation Summit Technical report presented to Health Minister
Minister of Health Nalinda Jayatissa says the Health Ministry is working to achieve the global immunisation targets set out in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Immunisation Agenda 2030. Minister Jayatissa further said that Sri Lanka’s national immunisation programme represents…