- Education Ministry decides to introduce Information Technology (IT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to school syllabuses from 2024: These subjects to be taught for Grades 06 – 13: Subject Minister Susil Premjayanth says the decision was made in a bid to further raise SL’s standard of education in parallel with international standards: A pilot programme to be implemented in this regard in June, 2023 within 20 selected schools.
- India’s Enforcement Directorate raids the Chennai office of LYCA, the production company that made the hit Bollywood film ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, over money laundering and tax evasion charges: LYCA is the current owner of EAP Group which owns Swarnavahini and is believed to be the company that is going to buy Lanka Hospitals and Sri Lanka Telecom PLC.
- The SJB Working Committee unanimously selects Party Leader Sajith Premadasa as their Presidential Candidate for the upcoming Presidential Polls.
- The CID obtains a travel ban against Pastor Jerome Fernando, who calls himself the ‘Prophet of God’ advocating for the Glorious Church of Colombo, Sri Lanka, from the Fort Magistrate Court: Fernando accused of making controversial public remarks against Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism; believed to have fled the country.
- Police use water cannons to disperse a protest staged by Medical Faculty students in Colombo against the government’s alleged move of granting medical degree-awarding rights to institutions such as Lyceum, Gateway and NSBM: The protest was organised by the students of Medical Faculties of all state universities.
- The Supreme Court dismisses a FR petition filed by Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen pertaining to his arrest in connection with the Easter Sunday Bombings; Bench rules the petitioner failed to provide sufficient details on the alleged transactions probed by the Police and therefore, his arrest was not unlawful on any account.
- President Ranil Wickremesinghe appoints K.A. Rohanadheera as the new Secretary General of Parliament, and retired High Court Judge Lalith Ekanayake as the new Chairman of the National Police Commission.
- SLTDA announces Sri Lanka will hit the half million mark of tourist arrivals at the end of May, 2023: Up to May 14, 2023 a total of 477,277 tourists visited the island with India dominating the market with 9,323 arrivals showing a 26% increase, Russia 3,686 showing a 10% increase, and the UK 2,523, against May 2022.
- President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake issues instructions to the Health Ministry urging them to continue implementing the dengue control programmes in collaboration with the Dengue Control Task Force: The Ministry has launched a comprehensive programme nationwide to combat the spread of dengue.
- SL’s ODI Cricket team prepped for the World Cup qualification tournament scheduled to commence on June 18, 2023 in Zimbabwe: SL already relegated to play in the 10 team qualifier tournament where the finalists will join the eight automatic qualifiers in the main draw.
