COLOMBO (News 1st): The Western Provincial Council says that there is still a shortage of over 4,000 teachers in the province.Chief Secretary of the Western Province, Dhammika Wijesinghe, said that the teacher shortage is particularly severe in the subjects of English, Tamil, and Information Technol...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The Sri Lanka State Trading (General) Corporation says that the government has delayed the importation of rice stocks that were ordered.This has been done to prioritize the rice stocks ordered by private importers.According to the Chairman of the Sri Lanka State Trading Corporati...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Ananda Wijepala, in a special address to Parliament today said that members of the three-armed forces assigned to the security detail of former presidents will be removed from next week.The Minister added that the government w...

COLOMBO (News 1st): 70,000 tourists have arrived in the country within the first 10 days of December.The Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, Buddhika Parakramasinghe said that by the end of December, approximately 200,000 tourists are expected to visit the country.The highest nu...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed India's commitment to supporting Sri Lanka during a meeting with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in New Delhi today.The two leaders discussed various aspects of bilateral cooperation, with a strong emphasis on enhancing defense t...