COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lankan health authorities have warned that the Delta COVID variant has probably spread to many areas in the country. Deputy Director-General of Public Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath speaking to News 1st said another 19 COVID-19 patients were detected with the Delta va...

COLOMBO (News 1st) Professor Emeritus Wimal G. Balagalle, an eminent & erudite multilingual scholar, passed away at the age of 97 on Friday (16). He was a well-known linguist versatile in Sinhala, Pali, Prakit, Sanskrit, Bengali languages and English as well. Born on November 1924, in the ...

COLOMBO (News 1st); President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed officials to commence a mobile vaccination program to administer vaccines to people who are confined to their homes due to various illnesses. The President's Media Division said that President Rajapaksa had stressed the immediate nee...

(INDIA) The UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 2021, led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, has sailed into the Indian Ocean Region having recently transited the Suez Canal. Following a series of successful engagements and operations in the Mediterranean, it is now sailing East across the Indian Ocean towards In...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka's Director-General of Health Services issued 23 guidelines to be followed when opening mosques across the country. Accordingly, worshippers are restricted to a maximum of 100 at a time at the mosque.   ...