In a forceful show of resolve, President Joe Biden addressed the world on Tuesday from Warsaw, Poland, just days ahead of the one-year mark of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine. He said there is a choice between democracy that lifts up the human spirit and the brutal hand of the dictator who ...

Colombo (News 1st) - Pakistan's President Arif Alvi on Tuesday (21st) unilaterally set a date for elections in two of the country's four provinces, after the Elections Commission of Pakistan failed to set a date following refusals by the Finance Ministry to provide funds for the election, an...

COLOMBO (News 1st); One in three households, 33% of Sri Lankans are food insecure according to WFP’s Household Food Security Survey (December 2022). It added that nearly seven in ten households are adopting foodbased coping strategies such as relying on less preferred food, limiting portion s...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Trinco Night Navigation Operations Project at the Trincomalee Harbour was launched recently, and is now in operation. Trincomalee Harbour, a natural deep-water harbor, is considered the fifth largest natural harbor in the world.  Despite its world-class recognition amo...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Professionals' Trade Union Collective has decided to launch a nation-wide protest on Wednesday (22) against the unjust tax policy. The protests will take place as the government has failed to respond to the calls of the professionals to amend the unjust income tax impose...