COLOMBO (News 1st): The Deputy General Manager of the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Thanuja Hingurage was summoned before the Presidential Commission today (June 14). She testified on allegations of financial irregularities in the Suraksha Insurance scheme. The first phase of the Suraksha insur...

COLOMBO (News 1st): President Maithripala Sirisena met with the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon today (June 14). President Sirisena is in Tajikistan to attend the 5th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). President Sirisena met the President of Tajikistan ...

COLOMBO (News 1st): Ambassador Alice Wells, the Acting Assistant Secretary for South & Central Asian Affairs of the U.S. Department of State commented about a free and open Indo Pacific region at the hearings on U.S. Interests in South Asia and the Fiscal Year 2020 Budget of the Committee on For...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The Court of Appeal today (June 14) decided to deliver a ruling on the appeal filed by former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on July 26th. Gotabaya Rajapaksa filed the appeal seeking to be acquitted and released from all charges in the case filed against him at the Colom...

COLOMBO (News 1st): Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who was in Singapore on a 2-day private visit returned to the country this morning (June 14). The Prime Minister met Singapore's Minister of Law K. Shanmugam yesterday (June 13). The acting High Commissioner of Singapore for Sri Lanka had al...