Colombo (News 1st)The National System Operator Company says it plans to reduce diesel-based power generation to 0.5% of total electricity generation within the next two years.It's Chairman, Dr. Pradeep Perera, said that electricity generation using furnace oil will also be reduced to 5%.He stated th...

Colombo (News 1st) : The number of deaths due to dengue has risen to 53.So far, 75,000 dengue cases have been reported in the country this yearThe highest number of patients are reported from the Gampaha and Colombo districts.Meanwhile, the National Dengue Control Unit states that a special dengue e...

COLOMBO (News 1st) – Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala says that further extensive investigations are underway regarding the death of former Inspector General of Police (IGP) C. D. Wickramaratne.He stated that the mobile phone used by the former IGP has also been taken into police custody for...

COLOMBO (News 1st) – An Angolan national has been arrested by the Bandaranaike International Airport Customs Narcotics Control Unit with cocaine worth Rs. 10 million.Sri Lanka Customs said the 54-year-old woman, who arrived in the country from Angola via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Doha, Qatar, was t...

COLOMBO (News 1st) – The Gampaha High Court yesterday sentenced five people, including a mother, father, and their two sons, to death for breaking into a house in Attanagalla, fatally attacking a man with a sharp weapon, and seriously injuring three others.The verdict was delivered by Gampaha Presid...