Oil prices inched lower on Monday after OPEC+ agreed to further increase its output targets from August while exports from key producers via the Strait of ​Hormuz are recovering, potentially adding to global supplies.

Several hospitals across the Western Province have reached maximum capacity due to the sharp rise in dengue patients, according to the National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU).

The Commissioner General of Prisons has appointed a special investigation team to inquire into the clash that broke out within the Negombo Prison yesterday (05), according to the Prisons Spokesperson.

The revised annual bus fare revision takes effect today (06), with bus fares increasing by between 12% and 20%.

Howling winds and lashing rains are battering Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as super typhoon Bavi makes landfall.

A few showers will occur in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Galle, Matara, Kandy and Nuwara-Eliya districts, today (06), the Department of Meteorology said.

The Leader of the Sarvajana Balaya, Member of Parliament Dilith Jayaweera has accused the present government of misleading entrepreneurs and the groups that supported its rise to power.

The clash between two groups of inmates at Negombo Prison has been brought under control, Prisons Spokesperson and Commissioner of Prisons, A.C. Gajanayake stated.

Emergency evacuations are taking place in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as a super typhoon bears down on the US Pacific territories.

A total of four inmates have been injured after part of the roof at the Negombo Prison collapsed during a protest this afternoon (05), hospital sources said.

The El Niño weather phenomenon, which contributes to higher global temperatures, is likely to intensify between July and September, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Maritime trade between Iran and Qatar has resumed after a roughly five-month suspension, Iran’s commercial attaché in Doha told state media on Sunday.

A drug trafficker identified as Suresh, who is said to have close links to an underworld figure known as “Booru Moona” has orchestrated the violent clash between two groups of inmates at the Negombo Prison today (05) which resulted in two prisoners dead, police stated.

The US has marked its 250th birthday with fireworks and flyovers - but celebrations across the country were complicated by extreme weather.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has extended the suspension of Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) from carrying on the business and activities of a Primary Dealer for a further period of six months.

A group of female inmates at the Negombo Prison are staging a rooftop protest following a clash between two groups of inmates earlier today (05).

Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as Iran's supreme leader, did not make an appearance.

A violent clash between two groups of inmates at the Negombo Prison this afternoon (05) has left two prisoners dead and 35 others admitted to the Negombo Hospital, officials said.