COLOMBO (News 1st) - The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that 70% of farmers have already received their fertilizer subsidy coupons. In a statement, the Ministry says that the Department of Agricultural Development informed Subject Minister Mahinda Amaraweera on the matter on Sunday (11). Eff...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The special team appointed to settle the lawsuit filed in Singapore to secure a compensation claim for the damages caused to the Sea of Sri Lanka from the X-Press Pearl maritime disaster will meet for the first time on June 19. The meeting will be held at the Attorney General&#...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - State Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government Janaka Wakkumbura says that a proposal has been submitted to cancel the nominations of the local government election. The Minister says that the proposal was presented in the Parliamentary Ministerial Consultative Commi...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - An individual was injured in a shooting by Akmeemana traffic police on Saturday (10). The police say that the incident had occurred following a routine inspection where a motorcycle with two individuals was told to halt on a side road on the Walahanduwa to Nugaduwa road last ni...

Colombo (News 1st) - Ted Kaczynski, the lone terrorist known as the Unabomber who carried out a wave of parcel bombings in the U.S. for 18 years from 1978-95, killing 3 people and wounding dozens, has died in prison at the age of 81. The hunt for the Unabomber was the longest and most expensiv...