COLOMBO (News 1st): The Handing Over Ceremony of two Drone Cameras was conducted on Thursday (Feb. 18) at Sri Lanka Air Force Station in Colombo. The event was held under the auspices of Western Province Governor, Marshal of the Air Force Roshan Goonetileke. Commander of the Air Force, Air Mar...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The Government has signed an agreement with the Serum Institute in India to purchase 10 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) said on Friday (Feb. 19). On behalf of the government, the State Pharmaceutical Corporation of Sri Lanka ha...

COLOMBO (News 1st): A demerit points system will be introduced soon in a bid to curtail traffic accidents, Sri Lanka Police said on Friday (Feb. 19). "We are going to introduce the demerit points system in order to curtail road traffic accidents. According to our legislative system, we have the l...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The highest number of fatalities due to road traffic accidents in the recent past were reported in the 24-hour window that ended on Friday morning (Feb. 19), Sri Lanka Police said. According to Police, 15 people were killed in road traffic accidents during the said period. ...

COLOMBO (News 1st): Intelligence Services will be used to gather intel on the anonymous complaints received with regard to offenses committed by police officers, the National Police Commission (NPC) said. The Inspector General of Police was advised on the decision, Retired Inspector General of Po...