COLOMBO (News 1st): The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) reports a noticeable increase in incidents involving the sharing of explicit content online to intimidate and threaten individuals.Senior Information Security Engineer Charuka Damunupola stated that over 1,100 such cases have...

Jakarta, Indonesia (News 1st); In an exclusive interview with News 1st's Zulfick Farzan, Peter Breuer, Senior Mission Chief for Sri Lanka at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), discussed the ongoing economic reforms and debt restructuring efforts in Sri Lanka.Peter Breuer confirmed that discussio...

COLOMBO (News 1st): Observations regarding the special audit report on the process of introducing electronic passports has been handed to the Ministry in-charge.Auditor General W.M.C. Wickramarathna stated that the recommendations of the Auditor General's Department, based on these observations, wil...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The Central Bank of Sri Lanka announced that it will from today (27) implement a single policy interest rate mechanism, the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR), transitioning from the dual policy interest rate mechanism. This is expected to result in more flexible targeting of infla...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The National Election Commission is scheduled to convene today. This is the first meeting of the commission since the 2024 Parliamentary election. The discussions today are set to focus on the upcoming local government elections among other topics....