COLOMBO (News 1st); Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera instructed the Paddy Marketing Board to issue 10,000 MT of rice per month. He said this at a special meeting held at the Paddy Marketing Board Head Office on Thursday (16). Minister Amaraweera instructed to issue such stocks of ric...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Judicial Service Commission has instructed for Courts to summon the minimum number of employees and take necessary steps to carry out judicial proceedings as usual for five days a week. Issuing a circular to all High Court Judges, Judicial Officers, Chairpersons of Labor T...

COLOMBO (News 1st); National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) announced that due to pipeline improvement work the water supply will be interrupted for 16 hours from 11.00 PM on Saturday (18) to 3.00 PM on Sunday (19). The supply of water will be suspended for Colombo 05 and 06 and the low-...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today (16) initiated a program to distribute food vouchers to pregnant women in underserved districts of Colombo, marking the start of WFP’s emergency response in the country. WFP is working to provide life-saving food, cash and vo...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Quad can lead the way  to avoid an economic implosion in Sri Lanka that could spark a humanitarian crisis with wider, destabilizing, regional impacts, says the  Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of the U.S., Senator Bob Menendez. The Senator, directing a ...