Oil prices fell more than 1% on Wednesday to their lowest levels since March as optimism over U.S.-Iran talks allayed supply concerns after U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Qatar had gone well.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has issued an amended list of companies and institutions that are reportedly engaged in prohibited pyramid schemes.

The number of tourist arrivals in the month of June has declined by 9.9% in comparison to June, 2025, data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) shows.

A few showers will occur in the Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-western provinces and in the Galle, Matara, Kandy and Nuwara-Eliya districts today (02), the Department of Meteorology stated.

Qatar said Wednesday that separate indirect meetings in Doha between US and Iranian negotiators made “positive progress” on issues tied to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, with both sides agreeing to continue discussions.

Sri Lanka has once again been classified as an Upper-Middle Income Economy, according to the latest country income classification released by the World Bank today (July 01).

Malabe Police have arrested five suspects in connection with the brutal assault of a youth near a Rice Dansala held in Malabe on Poson Poya Day (29).

A Kenyan court charged eight schoolgirls on Wednesday with murder for the deaths of 16 of their fellow students ​in a dormitory fire at a school in Kenya’s ‌Rift Valley in late May, the public prosecutor’s office said.

At least 5 people were killed in a fire ​in a 10-storey apartment tower in the Belgian city of Antwerp on ‌Wednesday, police said.

The U.S. and Iran held indirect technical talks in Doha on Wednesday as they seek to agree on the flow of shipping through the ‌Strait of Hormuz and secure a lasting ceasefire, a source with direct knowledge of the talks and an Iranian official said. MORE..

The Department of Railways has suspended two train services on the Kelani Valley railway line until further notice due to the unavailability of a power set required for the operation. MORE..

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has stated that the Government aims to increase Sri Lanka’s economic growth from its current level of around 5% to 7–8% over the coming years, emphasising that the information technology, electrical and electronics sectors...MORE..

Newly appointed Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, Vice Admiral Damian Fernando, has paid a courtesy call on the Defence Secretary, Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Sampath Thuyacontha, at the Ministry of Defence today (July 1).

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has appointed Dr. J.G.L. Sulakshana Jayawardena as the new Director General of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI).

The Department of Census and Statistics has launched Sri Lanka’s first-ever e-Census (Electronic Census) as a part of the Economic Census (Non-Agricultural Economic Activities) 2025/2026, with the objective of compiling the latest and most reliable statistical information...MORE..

A discussion with relevant stakeholders on establishing a Single-Window approval mechanism for Sri Lanka’s film tourism sector was held at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of the Secretary to the President, Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake.

The state of emergency declared following the impact of Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka will not be extended, Cabinet Spokesperson Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said.

The National Transport Commission (NTC) and the Lanka Private Bus Owners' Association (LPBOA) have agreed to increase the bus fares effective from July 6.