COLOMBO (News 1st) - Parliamentarian Channa Jayasumana says the Freedom People’s Alliance will never join with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. He said that all progressive movements that follow the middle path and love the country, have joined to form the Freedom People’s Alliance, and...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The Chairman of the Mawanella Pradeshiya Sabha was arrested by the officers attached to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption on Friday (13) for soliciting a bribe of Rs. 2 Million. The Mawanella Pradeshiya Sabha is controlled by the Sri Lanka Poduj...

Sivakumar Nadesan, one of the leading publishers in Sri Lanka was bestowed with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from Her Excellency Droupadi Murmu, the President of India at the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2023 Valedictory Session. Sivakumar Nadesan, the Managing Director of the Virakesari publ...

Colombo (News 1st) - There was bad news for perpetrators of war crimes as U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the “Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act” which authorises the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute citizens of any country who are in the United States for war cr...

India Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday (12) aid that Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have shown their keenness to import ethanol from India. The minister of road transport and highways said that he discussed about ethanol with the government of both the countries—Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. &...