COLOMBO (News 1st) - President Ranil Wickremesinghe has met with the members and Chairman of he Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, at the President's Office.  At the meeting which was held last evening, the Commission pointed out that there is a shortage of staff for the investigat...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday (28) that Sri Lankan authorities should immediately and unconditionally release journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara and investigate allegations.  In a statement the Committee to Protect Journalists said QUOTE“The arrest a...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, who is in Sri Lanka on  two-day official visit, paid a courtesy call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday morning (29).  Later, he also held bilateral discussions with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry.&nb...

COLOMBO (News 1st) -  Six members of the first-fifteen rugby team of Trinity College, Kandy have been hospitalized in Colombo with viral fever. Today’s match scheduled versus Zahira College in Colombo will not take place, the master in charge of Trinity College rugby confirmed. It is not...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of a patient at the National Institute of Mental Health in Angoda. The apprehended individual is also an employee of the hospital, as are the other two suspects already in custody. Earlier, two suspects were arrest...