Category: Local News

The reduction of the Special Commodity Levy on sugar from Rs. 50 per kilo to 25 cents per kilo in October last year allowing bulk imports by one importer had resulted in a loss of Rs. 16 billion in tax revenue, a report submitted by the Finance Ministry to the Committee on Public Finance has revealed.

Four more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka, the Department of Government Information confirmed a short while ago.

A jailor who had allegedly allowed MP Harshana Rajakaruna to take a selfie with imprisoned MP Ranjan Ramanayake at the Angunakolapelessa Prison has been interdicted, the Prisons Department said.

Co-Cabinet Spokesperson Minister Ramesh Pathirana says no decision has been taken to increase the domestic gas prices by the Cabinet of Ministers.

The first, second and the third volumes of the final report of the Presidential Commission of Investigation on political victimisation were tabled in parliament by the Leader of House Minister Dinesh Gunawardena today.

General Secretary of Bodu Bala Sena Organization, Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera said a request had been made to Most Ven Mahanayake Theras to formally study the distortions caused by the recommendations of the report of the Presidential Commission of Investigations (PCoI) on the Easter Sunday terror attacks and to issue a joint statement in this regard.

The leader of the United National Party and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the government is printing money in the manner of printing Sunday newspapers.

Veteran musician and singer late Pandit W.D. Amaradeva’s wife Wimala Amaradeva passed away at the age of 86 while receiving treatment at the National Hospital in Colombo, sources confirmed.

Five more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka, the Department of Government Information confirmed a short while ago.

Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa says the former government in place during the Easter Sunday bombings accepts responsibility for the attacks.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday countered with solid facts on falsehoods over the Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Easter Sunday attacks that was submitted to him on 1 February being propagated by certain groups seeking undue political advantage.

It will cos tat least Rs 8,000 million to change the plan of the Central Expressway in a way that protects the rare Crudia Zeylanica tree that lies on its path, said State Minister of Rural Roads and other Infrastructure, Nimal Lanza.

There had been a delay in pressing charges against those involved in the Easter Sunday carnage because the government was waiting for the report of the PCoI on those attacks, Minister of Public Security, Dr. Sarath Weerasekera said yesterday.

Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga stated that a need to declare a ‘Black Sunday’ would not have come up if the previous ‘Good Governance’ government had fulfilled its responsibilities.

Five more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka, the Department of Government Information confirmed a short while ago.

Sri Lankan Roman Catholics attended Mass dressed in black on Sunday, with prayers and protests calling for justice for those killed in coordinated suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday two years ago.