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Veteran singer Tony Hassan passes away at 73.
Veteran Sri Lankan singer Tony Hassan has passed away at the age of 73. The singer is believed to have been ill since of late, and had died while receiving treatment. Family sources have confirmed that the final rites will be performed at the Maligawatte Muslim Burial ground …
Sri Lankan Rupee appreciates further against USD.
The Sri Lankan Rupee further appreciated against the US Dollar today (16 May), the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) reported. Accordingly, the buying rate was declared at Rs. 305.43, while the selling rate stands at Rs. 318.79. Meanwhile, CBSL reported the Middle Rate of the …
International Day of Living Together in Peace - 16 May.
The International Day of Living Together in Peace is celebrated annually on May 16 to encourage peace, tolerance, inclusivity, understanding, and solidarity among individuals and communities globally. Its goal is to emphasize the significance of cultivating peaceful coexist…
EU regulators approve Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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European Union regulators gave the green light for Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the world’s largest gaming firms. The EU’s executive arm, the European Commission, approved the deal after Microsoft offered remedies in the emerging area o…
FC Barcelona lifts 27th La Liga Title.
Football Club Barcelona (FC Barcelona) has become the champions of Spain for the 27th time in the club’s 123-year history, securing their first title since 2019. They achieved this feat by winning against local rivals Espanyol with a score of 4-2, which helped them to move …
International Day of Light - 16 May.
The International Day of Light is celebrated on 16 May each year, the anniversary of the first successful operation of the laser in 1960 by physicist and engineer, Theodore Maiman. This day is a call to strengthen scientific cooperation and harness its potential to foster p…
ChatGPT on Mars: How AI can help scientists study the Red Planet..?
The world is abuzz, perhaps even befuddled, about the growing use of artificial intelligence. One of the most popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools available to the public today is ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model that has been "trained" and fed vast amo…
James Webb Space Telescope discovers water around a mysterious comet.
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted water around a rare comet located in the main asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. The observation represents another scientific breakthrough for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), representing the first time that gas, in th…
The first radiation belt outside the solar system has been spotted.
For the first time, astronomers have spotted a band of radiation surrounding an object outside our solar system. A belt of energetic electrons encircles a Jupiter-sized body about 18 light-years from Earth, astronomers report May 15 in Nature. As the electrons move, they rad…
5,400-year-old tomb discovered in Spain.
Archaeologists have discovered a 5,400-year-old megalithic tomb near a prominent lone mountain in southern Spain, suggesting the peak may have been meaningful to prehistoric people there. The area, in the countryside near the city of Antequera, is renowned for its megaliths …
Nigerian chef cooks for 100 hours in world record attempt.
Nigerian chef Hilda Effiong Bassey has become a national sensation after cooking nonstop for 100 hours, in an attempt to set a world record. The chef, known on social media as Hilda Baci, started cooking on Thursday and continued until Monday – creating more than 55 recipes …
Minor tremor in Lunugamwehera area in Sri Lanka.
A minor earth tremor of 2.5 magnitude in the Richter scale has been recorded at around 10.15 p.m. last night at Lunugamwehera in East Sella Kataragama, according to the Geological Survey & Mines Bureau. Source: www.adaderana.lk
Florida professor breaks record for time spent living underwater.
A US researcher has broken the record for the longest time spent living underwater without depressurisation. Joseph Dituri has spent more than 74 days at the bottom of a 30ft-deep lagoon in Key Largo, Florida. And he does not have plans to stop yet. On Sunday, he said he woul…
Astronomers detect largest cosmic explosion ever seen.
Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the largest explosion ever detected. The explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any recorded exploding star - known as a supernova. So far it has lasted more than three years, much longer than most supernovae which ar…
Scientists just unveiled the world's first Wooden Electrical Transistor.
Researchers at Linköping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden clearly never paid much attention to lists of things wood is bad at, so they went ahead and made the world's first wooden transistor. To be upfront, the team behind the innovation add…
WhatsApp will allow users to lock and hide conversations.
WhatsApp users will soon be able to lock and hide conversations, thanks to a new feature. Chat Lock will remove a chat thread from the app’s regular onscreen inbox and place it into a new folder that can only be opened by a password or biometric, such as facial recognition o…
SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission is 'go' for May 21 launch.
The second-ever private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) remains on track to lift off this weekend. NASA, SpaceX and Houston company Axiom Space held a flight readiness review (FRR) today (May 15) for the Ax-2 mission, which is scheduled to launch f…
Baby born from three people’s DNA in UK first.
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A baby has been born using three people’s DNA for the first time in the UK, the fertility regulator has confirmed. Most of their DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman. The pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born w…
Turkey faces runoff election with Erdogan leading.
Turkey headed for a runoff vote after President Tayyip Erdogan led over his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday's election but fell short of an outright majority to extend his 20-year rule of the NATO-member country. Neither Erdogan nor Kilicdaroglu cleared the…
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