Colombo (News 1st):  Police media spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekera said that 41 banks accounts belonging to the suspects detained by the Criminal Investigations Department and the Terrorist Investigations Division over the 04/21 terror attacks, with Rs. 134 million were frozen. In addition, anoth...

Colombo (News 1st): MP Kavinda Jayawardena stepped down from the special parliamentary select committee appointed to look into the 04/21 attacks. The speaker today informed parliament that Dr Rajitha Senaratne will take MP Jayawardena's position in the committee. He also informed that Dr Nalinda ...

Colombo (News 1st): The extension of the emergency regulations by another one month was passed in Parliament by a majority vote. 22 votes were cast in favour and 08 TNA MPs voted against it....

Colombo (News 1st): The Colombo High Court today issued notice on former Senior DIG Anura Senanayake to appear in court on June 27th on the charge of screening offenders from legal punishment in the Wasim Thajudeen murder case. This was confirmed to News 1st by State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne, th...

Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020. The social media giant wants to start testing its crypto-currency, which has been referred to internally as Global...