COLOMBO (News 1st) - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has decided to award a subsidy of Rs. 15,000/- ($42) each to low-income earning agriculture-based families across seven districts, said the Department of Government Information on Tuesday (27). This allowance will b...

(Reuters) - Chinese people, cut off from the rest of the world for three years by COVID-19 curbs, flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening, even as rising infections further strained the health system and roiled the economy. Zero-tolerance measures - from shuttered borders to f...

Colombo (News 1st) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sought Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s help with implementing a “peace formula” to end the Ukraine-Russia War, Zelensky said in a Tweet. The request was made during a phone call on Monday between Zele...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The Sri Lankan Embassy in Moscow, Russia has announced that Red Wings, one of the leading private airlines of the Russian Federation, will start charter flight operations to Mattala International Airport in Sri Lanka, with effect from the 28th December 2022. This is the third R...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The man who was found stabbed and shot in the mouth in Kaduwela was identified by Sri Lanka Police, and he is a resident from Upper Biyanwala in Kadawatha. Information has come to light that the man had left his house with a friend on Sunday (25) night. Sri Lanka Police said t...