COLOMBO (News 1st) - The Provincial letters will be eliminated from the Vehicle Number Plate when a new vehicle is registered, and when ownership is transferred with effect from the 1st of January 2023. The amendment to the vehicle number places was announced by the Commissioner General of Motor Tra...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The Ceylon Electricity Board said that the generator at the Norochcholai Power Plant that was shut down for maintenance will be added to the National Grid on the 6th or 7th of January 2023. General Manager of the CEB Engineer Rohan Seneviratne speaking to News 1st said that a ...

Star Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant met with an accident on Friday morning (December 30) while returning to Delhi from Uttarakhand. His car hit a divider, and it caught fire after the collision.  As per reports and several pictures that have surfaced online, he has suffered multiple burn injuri...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Sri Lanka's Police Chief C. D. Wickremeratne has instructed police officers to only inspect school students for narcotics possession based on verified information. He had also given instructions to refrain from inspecting school students at random if the information cannot ...

BBC - Controversial online influencer Andrew Tate has reportedly been detained in Romania as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation. Tate - who was detained alongside his brother Tristan - had his house raided in the capital, Bucharest. A lawyer for the brothers confirmed their detenti...