COLOMBO (News 1st) - Prior to the debate & vote on the No-Confidence Motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, members of the SLFP announced that the party will leave the consensus government if the PM does not step down before the NCM. Now that the PM has won the Motion against him...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The body of an unidentified male has been found floating in a stream in Niyandagala, Homagama. Police say the body is of a person who is around 35-40 years old. The News 1st correspondent in the area reported that the death of this individual is suspicious, and that a cloth w...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court disqualified and deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life. Sharif (67), resigned in July after the Supreme Court disqualified him from holding office over an undeclared source of income, but the veteran leader maintains his grip on the ruling Pakis...

The brutal gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl has sparked outrage and anger across India. The body of the victim, Asifa Bano who belonged to a Muslim nomadic tribe, was found in a forest on 17th of January near Kathua city of Indian-administered Kashmir. The story made national hea...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Reginald Cooray was sworn who was sworn in as the Governor of the Central Province yesterday (12th April) was sworn in as the Governor of the Northern Province today before President Maithripala Sirisena, Secretary to President Austin Fernando revealed that P.B Dissanayake wa...