COLOMBO (News 1st) - An accident in the Hungama along the Kataragama - Colombo main road claimed the life of an individual. The accident occurred around 1.30 am when a bus playing from Colombo to Kataragama veered off the road and fell into the Nonagama Weva. The remains of the deceased is cur...

Colombo (News 1st) - Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced his final decision on R. Sampanthan to remain as the Opposition Leader at the Parliament today (August 10). The speaker stressed that there is no constitutional or traditional provision for him to accept the Joint Opposition MPs as a separate...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - A small van was completely destroyed in a fire following an accident that took place in the Pelvehera area on the Dambulla - Habarana main road. A van plying from Habarana to Dambulla had collided with a car and thereafter veered off the road and caught fire. Five people w...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The Government has decided to charge a sum of Rs. 100 from first time applicants for a National Identity Card. This decision will come in to effect from the 1st of September 2018. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Wayamba Development issuing an Extraordinary Gazette sta...

REUTERS - Israeli air strikes hit targets in Gaza on Thursday (August 9) afternoon, flattening a multi-story building that the Israeli military described as a Hamas headquarters. The strikes came after a long-range Palestinian missile attack deep into Israel, the first of its kind since a 2014 wa...