Continuing to reach out to fellow Sri Lankans in need, Sri Lanka’s national carrier, SriLankan Airlines will operate special flights to bring home Sri Lankan students stranded overseas due to COVID-19 pandemic, the airline said

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka which slumped in the aftermath of last year’s April 21st attacks have declined for the 12th consecutive month in March due to the coronavirus, government statistics show

Six more patients tested positive for Covid-19 today, bringing the total number of confirmed cases reported from Sri Lanka to 310

The Indian Army is readying separate teams to be deployed in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan to help those countries boost capabilities to deal with rising cases of coronavirus, official sources told PTI

Social media and tech giant Facebook is pouring in Rs 43,574 crore for a 9.99 percent stake in India's oil-retail-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) led Jio Platforms -- the largest investment for a minority stake by a technology company anywhere in the world and the largest FDI in the Indian tech sector, according to an RIL statement on Wednesday

The World Health Organisation (WHO) will provide £2.67 million (approximately $3.29 million) fund to Pakistan to scale up the country’s efforts in its fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic

Japan has provided a total sum of USD 1,212,500 (approx. Rs. 230 million) through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to tackle the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) and Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), in a joint project, have developed a working prototype of a Positive Pressure Respirator System (PPRS) to address the problem of acute global scarcity of N-95 respirator masks which are a critical component of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kits

Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), which started in 1926-27 as an Islamic missionary movement, has never interacted with the media and this is arguably the first-ever interview of a TJ chief to any media house in 92 years of its work as a religious movement which is spread over 150 countries

With 1383 new cases and 50 fatalities in 24 hours, the total tally of novel coronavirus cases in India reached to 19,984 on Wednesday, the health ministry said

US President Donald Trump has said that his immigration ban will be for only 60 days and indicated that workers - from South Asia and other places -  on temporary visas like H1-B for professionals and H-2A for agricultural and menial workers could continue to come in

Sri Lanka has announced June 20 as the new date for its parliamentary elections, after the initial plans to hold them on April 25 had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Sri Lanka on Tuesday remembered the over 250 people who were killed during the deadly Easter bombings that targeted churches and luxury hotels in the island-nation on this day last year

Pakistan has discreetly removed the names of around 4,000 terrorists from its watchlist, including that of one of the major planners of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup has revealed

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across Pakistan, it has left the transgender community in Punjab province at heightened risk of poverty and ill health because they exist on the fringes of society, a media report said