(News 1st); A private laboratory in India accused of faulty Covid-19 tests on travelers on two flights from Italy last week is been investigated by Indian officials, Foreign media reported. Close to 173 travelers from Rome and 125 passengers from Milan tested positive on arrival in Amritsar, Indi...

COLOMBO (News 1st):  SriLankan Airlines reports a Company Profit of USD 9.25 million and a Group Profit of USD 10.66 million for December 2021, which is the first profitable month for the Airline since the onset of the Pandemic in early 2020. The revenues are up by almost 200% compared with the s...

New Delhi: India Singer Lata Mangeshkar has been hospitalised after she tested positive for Covid-19. She is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. Her niece Rachana Shah confirmed the news to ANI and said that she has mild symptoms. “She is doing fine; has be...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Alongside gas, milk powder queues were a recent addition to the mounting woes of the people of present-day Sri Lanka. Nugegoda a bustling town just outside the borders of greater Colombo is home to a large number of residents and many others who arrive from all parts of the is...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The party leaders of Sri Lanka have decided to debate the President's Policy Statement for the Second Session of Parliament on the 19th and 20th of January 2022. The second session of the 9th Parliament will open on the 18th of January 2022, with the President expected to deli...