News1st Digital celebrates its tenth anniversary today, Tuesday, October 10.

News1st Digital, which is a part of the MTV/ MBC Media Networks, owned by The Capital Maharaja Organisation took its first ever step in publishing news on its web page.

The website first started off as ethalaya.com on October 10, 2007, and was later changed to newsfirst.lk.

Accordingly, the newsfirst.lk website is in Sinhala, English and Tamil. Also, the web page is inclusive of visuals.

The website was initially launched in Sinhala medium and was later launched in English and Tamil mediums.In 2010, 2014 and 2015 the BestWeb.LK was awarded to newsfirst.lk.

The newsfirst.lk website was also awarded the bronze medal for the Best Tamil Media Website in 2014. Newsfirst.lk, which comes to you in all three languages, has today become Sri Lanka’s premier website.

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