Colombo (News 1st); 09 People tested positive for COVID-19 so far today, according to the Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. 05 of them are those who closely associated sailors of the Sri Lanka Navy, 03 of them are sailors of the Sri Lanka Navy and the other is a patient reporte...

COLOMBO (News1st): Sri Lanka's far-left People's Liberation Front (JVP) party has boycotted a meeting between Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and all former lawmakers, urging the President to reconvene Parliament or to seek a determination from the Supreme Court. Rajapaksa, on Thursday, invited ...

COLOMBO (News1st): Sri Lanka has printed Rs 6.55 billion this week, pumping a total of Rs 115.62 billion into the market in April, central bank data showed. The government has printed Rs. 223.64 billion so far this year, among which Rs 220.4 billion had been printed after the COVID-19 virus start...

Colombo (News 1st); Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said the CEB had made an error in preparing Electricity Bills of consumers & the CEB was instructed to immediately rectify the issue. He said the CEB had made its calculations for the past few months and made this month's electricity bill and ther...

China will begin trial payments in its new digital currency in four major cities from next week, according to foreign media. In recent months, China’s central bank has stepped up its development of the e-RMB, which is set to be the first digital currency operated by a major economy. It has rep...