COLOMBO (News 1st) - The Colombo Stock Exchange ended on a positive note on Tuesday (29). The All Share Price Index (ASPI) ended at 8,375.21 points, up by 0.79% The S&P SL20 also closed at 2,640.31 points, up by 1.05% The market turnover was at Rs. 2,881 billion involving around 100 million s...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Sri Lanka's debt restructuring process have almost reached the final stages, said the country's Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC on Monday (28) in Parliament. "The only thing that is holding us back is the debt assurance letters from all the creditors, particularly t...

Amid time running out, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is still analysing Pakistan’s fiscal position particularly the flood-related expenditures that it viewed had changed the macroeconomic assumptions of the fund programme. The “IMF understands that the floods have changed the ma...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The former 3rd Secretary of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oman E. Kushan who was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department was remanded to the 13th of December 2022 by the Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court. The Former 3rd Secretary of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oman was...

(CNN) - The world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii, is erupting for the first time in nearly 40 years. Though lava is flowing down one side of the volcano, the eruption in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is not threatening communities, the US Geological Survey said midday Monday. ...