The Finance Ministry yesterday said that Lion Brewery Ltd in Biyagama has been permitted to import beer for a period of three months and imposed taxes and other levies equal to that of locally manufactured beer at the point of importation instead of import taxes and other levies.
The CID and a team of experts yesterday searched the Laboratory belonging to the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) in Malabe for Wassim Thajudeen's body parts, which had gone missing after the initial postmortem examination.
The recently held Eluga Tamil demonstration in Jaffna by Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran was a result of internal competition for the TNA leadership led by Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan, MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara said today.
India has agreed to convert the proposed 500 MW Sampur Coal Power Plant (SCPP) to Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) plant with the first joint meeting on the contract will be held on October 18 in Colombo, Power and Renewable Energy Ministry Secretary Suren Batagoda said yesterday.
Supreme Court ordered a former Principal of Mahanama College, Colombo and a male teacher accused of continuous sexual abuse of a graduate music teacher, who complained against them for harassment, to personally pay her Rs 100,000 each.
While criticizing the decision made by the government to boycott the 19th SAARC Summit, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs G. L. Peiris said that Sri Lanka should certainly attend the SAARC summit in Islamabad, Pakistan when the new dates were announced.
Days after Sri Lanka became the fifth country in the eight-member grouping to pull out of the SAARC Summit, in a press release, the Pakistan foreign office said, “a new set of dates for holding of the 19th Saarc Summit at Islamabad will be announced soon, through the Chair of Saarc (Nepal).”
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