President Ranil Wickremesinghe has issued a directive to the legal departments, instructing them to prepare a stringent legislation aimed at preventing child abuse.  The President has stressed the urgency of addressing the on-going issue of child abuse perpetrated by teachers, elders, and vari...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka's Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said that Unit 3 at the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant will be shutdown for a period of 100 days from the 13th of June 2023. This is for a scheduled major overhaul maintenance work, said the Minister adding that pow...

COLOMBO (News 1st); General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Attorney Sagara Kariyawasam said no request was made to the President to re-appoint Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister. He expressed these views during a media briefing held at the party headquarters on M...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that a Cabinet sub-committee would be appointed to implement the Surbana Jurong plan for the development of the Western Province and a new agency would be established for this purpose. The President stressed the need for comprehensive development in the West...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Sectoral Oversight Committee on Alleviating the Impact of the Economic Crisis said it was revealed that one in three school students of Sri Lanka do not have a sufficient meal for breakfast or don't have breakfast. Chairman MP Gamini Waleboda said of the 4.5 million scho...