COLOMBO (News 1st): "There is a cloud of uncertainty over the tender called for the purchase of coal at the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant," opposition MP Nalin Bandara said in Parliament on Tuesday (19th Jan) "A cabinet paper was put forward yesterday to purchase 300,000 tonnes of coal for USD 96...

REUTERS: India, one of the world’s biggest drugmakers, will start exports of COVID-19 vaccines as early as Wednesday, government sources said, paving the way for many mid- and lower-income countries to secure supplies of the easy-to-store Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first batch of exports will ...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The government came under heavy flak recently for amending an import tax on sugar twice, with critics stating that the move had benefitted the allies of those in power. Speaking about the matter in Parliament on Tuesday (19th Jan) Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Eran Wickramaratne s...

Colombo (News 1st); The Frontline Socialists Party together with Civil & Political activists protested opposite the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka against the process to involve India's Adani Group for the development of the East Container Terminal at the Colombo Port. Further, the prote...

Colombo (News 1st); Unusual gains in the Colombo Stock Exchange has instilled fear among the honest investors in the country, said the JVP on Tuesday (19). National Organizer of the JVP Bimal Ratnayake speaking to reporters said there are concerns as to whether these gains are the result of fraud...