Reuters - Trinidad-born British author V.S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001, has died at his home in London aged 85, the BBC reported on Saturday (August 11). Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, who began writing in the 1950s, won numerous coveted literary awards during his car...

COLOMBO (News 1st)  - NASA on Sunday (August 12) launched a probe that will head closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft before it, enduring wicked heat while zooming through the solar corona to study this outermost part of the stellar atmosphere that gives rise to the solar wind. The Parker ...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Vice-Chancellor of the Peradeniya University, Professor Upul P. Dissanayake stated that the operations of three faculties of the university that had been shut down will begin from tomorrow. (August 13) Accordingly, the Medical faculty, Dental faculty, and Agriculture faculty ...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Leader of the House, Min. Lakshman Kiriella says that the delimitation proposal for provincial councils will be presented to Parliament on the 24th of this month. He noted that the proposal should be passed in parliament by a two-thirds majority. The Minister further noted th...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - A person who impersonated a monk was arrested in Ahungalla for defrauding over Rs 80 million. He was arrested while in hiding in a hotel in Ahungalla. Rs 10.8 million, jewelry worth Rs 265,000, a watch worth Rs 15,000 and several mobile phones were recovered by the police in ...