COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka Police arrested four people in connection to the shooting of the Chairman of the Co-Operative Insurance Company D. L. Samarawickrama. Sri Lanka Police said that suspects were aged between 35 & 42, and were residents of Horana, Nebada, and Matara. The new Chairman ...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry said that it is looking at reports that surfaced about Sri Lankan refugees who are being held in Diego Garcia, a militarized atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean. A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry said that informatio...

COLOMBO (News 1st): Three people, including a teenage boy, died in a fatal motor accident in Thulhiriya, Warakapola. The accident was the result of a head-on collision between a three-wheeler and a tipper truck. The deceased were traveling in the three-wheeler, and they were identified as a father...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Traveller Magazine of the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia has highlighted Sri Lanka as a travel destination in every tourists bucket list. Lee Tulloch, from SMH's Traveller Magazine said if there is a country that could do with a lot of love right now, it’s Sri ...

Two mahouts from Thailand’s Forest Industry Organisation, who have flown to Sri Lanka, have met with Sak Surin, an ailing Thai elephant at Dehiwala Zoo, and have started the familiarisation process by feeding and bathing him. The main job of the mahouts is to train the animal to enter, exit a...