The Monetary Board of the Central Bank Of Sri Lanka (CBSL) which met yesterday (31) had decided to reduce the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) by 250 basis points to 13 percent and 15 percent respectively .
Lanka Indian Oil Company (LIOC) had announced that it will also implement the same Price revision implemented by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CEYPETCO) with effect from midnight last night(31).
CEYPETCO had increased the Prices of Octane -95 Petrol and Super Diesel Prices whilst decreasing the prices of Octance -92 petrol ,Ketosene Oil and Industrial Kerosene Oil prices
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CEYPETCO) had reduced the prices of Octane -92 Petrol,Kerosene oil and Industrial Kerosene Oil and Increased the prices of Octane - 95 petrol anf ,Super Diesel with effect from midnight yesterday (31) it has been announced.
According to the new price revision the Price of a Liter of Octane-92 Petrol had reduced by Rs.15 ,A liter of Kerosene oil by Rs.50 and A liter of Industrial Kerosene by Rs.60 it has been announced.Also The Price of a Liter of Octane-95 Petrol had increased by Rs.20 and A liter of Super Diesel had increased by Rs.10 .The Price of a Liter of Auto Diesel remains unchanged.
Two persons were injured and hospitalized due to a collision of a Three wheeler,A Motor Car and a Motor cycle at Narangala junction of Horana-Bulathsinghala road (Western Province ) yesterday(30).
The incident occurred due to a problem of a Break system of the Three wheeler it has been reported.The injured Three wheeler driver and the Motorcyclist were admitted to Horana Base Hospital for treatment .
Wellawa Police(North Western Provonce ) had arrested an Audit officer in Sinharaja area at Kumbukwewa over keeping in possession of 16 Rs.1000 local currency notes it has been reported.
Police had arrested the suspect after he was giving a fake Rs.1000 note to a trader at Wellawa area to purchase a good.The trader had complained to the Police as he had noticed that currency note was a fake one.
The Police had found 16 other Rs.1000 Curremcy notes stored in the house of Audit officer at Kumbukwewa area during a raid carried out there
Daily supply of Litro Gas,had been increased by 10 ,000 Gas,cylinders from 30,000 to 40,000 cylinders due to the higher demand according to the Litro Gas Company.
In view of increasing the
Officers attached to Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had arrested a stand up Comedian Nathasha Edirisuriya on last Saturday (27) night at the Katunayake ,Bandaranaike International Airport whilst attempting to leave for Singapore ,Over insulting Lord Buddha tbrough a Video .
She was remanded over the allegstions levelled against her until 07 th of June after been produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate Court .
The Fuel Quota issues for all the Vehicles under the National Fuel Pass QR System will be increased with effect from midnight this Tuesday (30) according to the Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekare .
Accordingly the Fuel Quota issues for a registered Taxi three wheeler will be increased to 22 liters per a week and other three wheelers will recieve 14 liters per a week the Minister has stated.
A Motorcycle will receive 14 liters of Fuel per a week and a Car will receive 40 liters of fuel per a week under the increased quota system he had stated.
An Expert Committee had approved a Proposal to commence a Pilot project on cultivating Cannabies for economic purposes within the Board of Investment (BOI) Zone at Katunayake According to the State Minister of Investment Promotions Dilum Amunugama .
This pilot project will be initiated with
the involvement of an investor he had stated..
One of the Deputy principals of the Dharmashoka Collage in Ambalangoda(Southern Province ) had been injured due to a gun shooting incident at Randombe area in Ambalangoda last morning (26).
Two unidentifed gunmen arrived from a Motorcycle had opened fire towards the Deputy Principal who was riding his Motorcycle at the time of the incident according to the Ambalangoda Police.The injured who is a resident of Migettuwatte in Balapitiya area and the son in law of a gang leader Kosgoda Suji had ridden the Motorcycle to the Police amidst injuries it has been revealed.
The cause behind the incident has not yet been revealed .
The Officers Attached to the Gampaha District Investigations Unit of the Consumer Affairs Authority had arrested a person impossession of a stock of Chocolates imported ileagally at a house in Negambo Area yesterday(26).
The stock of Chocolates taken into
සැබෑ ආදරයට තැනක් වේලාවක් නොමැතිවාක් මෙන්ම පුදන ආදරයෙහි අඩුවක්ද නොපවතිනු ඇත .නිතර සොයා බැලීම ,අනෙකා වෙනුවෙන් බලා සිටීම ,කැපවීම හා ආදරය හැර කිසිවක් පෙරළා බලාපොරොත්තු නොවීම සැම අයෙකුගෙන්ම බලාපොරොත්තු විය නොහැකි නිසා එවැනි ආදරයක් සුවිශේෂී වේ .(උපුටා ගැනීමකි ).
A 55 year old person has drowned last evening (24) whilst bathing his dogs in the sea area of Chilaw (Colombo District ) 
The deceased who was a resident of Mayikkulama area in Chilaw had faced this incident whilst bathing his dogs in the sea it has been reported.
The government owned Lanka Sathosa Limited had reduced the prices of six essential food items with effect from yesterday (24)according to the Lanka Sathosa .
Accordingly Sathosa had reduced the prices of Sathosa Milk Powder 400 G by Rs.50 to Rs.1030 ,The price of a Kilo gramme of Dried chilies by Rs.45 to Rs.1350,A Kilo Gramme of Soya Meat by Rs.10 to Rs.660,Red Lentils by Rs.10 to Rs.325,A Kilo Gramme of White sugar by Rs.04 to Rs.239 and a Kilo Gramme of ]Big Anions by Rs.06 to Rs.129 it has been announced.
The proposal submitted to the Parliament by the Current government to remove the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC)Janaka Ratnsyake from his post had been passed yesterday (24) with a majority of 46 votes .
Accordingly 123 MP's had voted in favor of the proposal whilst 77 had voted against the Proposal.MP 's representing the governing Sri lanka progressive Party(Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna) had voted in favor of the proposal and majority of the opposition had voted against the proposal.
Before the vote a debate on the proposal was held during the day.
President Ranil Wikramasinghe had yesterday(22) left for Singapore and Japan for an official visit .
He will hold bi lateral talks with the leaders of Singapore and Japan during this visit it has been announced.President will attend the Nikkei future of Asia summit to be held in Japan as well during his visit to Japan from 24-27 th of May .
Colombo High Court Judge Damith Thotawatte had today(22) sentenced a person rigorous lifetime imprisonment over keeping 2.39 Grammes of heroin in possession
The accused Nadaraja Ravindren allies
Kandy Hedquarters Police had launched a special investigation to arrest three persons who had stolen Rs. 8 million worth valuable Blue gem from a Gem center at the Peradeniya road in Kandy which selling Gems for foreigners .
Three robbers had
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The robbers had somehow taken the details of the shape and size of the Valuable Gem with the help of another person and done this robbery Police had stated.Police had already identified the three robbers with the assistance of CCTV Cameras it has been reported.
The Special Police Task Force (STF) Personal had arrested seven persons including the notorious criminal "Malliya' who is responsible for many crimes with a haul of drugs and Arms in their possession during a raid carried out at Kadar nana watte in Borella (Colombo district this morning (21).
The Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) had appointed Madushan Indrajith as the new convener of the Federation replacing the present convener Wasantha Mudalige ,
The newly appointed IUSF Convener is a student attached to the Faculty of Ecology at University of Peradeniya and his appointment was made at a meeting held in Rjarata University today (21)
The female child artist in this clip of 'Sada Sulan "film was late Padmini Dahsnayake.
The Government had slashed the special commodity levy imposed on Maize imported for manufacturing "Thriposha" by the Sri Lsnka Thriposha Limited.
Accordingly the special Commodity levy of Rs.75 imposed on a Kilo Gramme of Imported Maize had been reduced by Rs.50 to Rs.25 the Finance Mimistry has announced.
A 51 year old person was shot and killed by two unidentified Gunmen arrived in a Motorcycle at Lesly Ranagala Road in Borella ( Colombo ) this morning (20) .
The deceased who was a resident in Kelaniya area had faced this incident whilst engaged in paying the salaries of Janitorial workers of an institution .The reason behind the shooting has not yet been revealed .
Mahara Magistrate Court had yesterday (19) granted conditional bail for 08 Student activists attached to the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) including the convener of the Federatoon Wasantha Mudalige who were arrested last Thursday night by the Kiribathgoda Police over obstructing the Police duties during a protest march.
The eight student activists were arrested by the Police whilst staging a protest campaign in front of the University of Kelaniya demanding immediatte release of Students activists of The university who are in remand custody.
These Student activists had been charged on obstructing police duties when they along with other activists of the IUSF had blocked the Colombo -Kandy road carrying torch lamps .
A 10 hour long water cut is scheduled to be implemented in 04 local government institution areas and 04 divisions of the Colombo District from 10 p.m tonight (19) until 8 a.m tomorrow morning (20) according to the National Water Supplies and Drainage Board (NWSDB) .
Accordingly the water supply to Kotte and Kaduwela Municipal Council areas and to the Maharagama and Boeralsgamuwa Urban council areas as well as Colombo-04 ,05,07 and 08 divisions will be halted during that period due to an essential maintenance work at Ambathale water purification plant the Water Board had announced,
The Ceylon Electricity Board(CEB) should reduced the Electricity Bill by 20 percent according to the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Janaka Ratnayake.
However Ceylon Electricity Board had informed the PUC that the Electricity Bill can be reduced by 3 percent and that percentage is not sufficient at all Public Utilities Commission chairman had stressed,.
The Medical Students Action Committee had launched this Protest march against Private Universities offering Medical degrees The road from Horton Place in Borella to Nelum Pokuna was blocked due to this protest march launched by the Medical students .
The Medical student protesters representing all the Medical faculties in the country that were participated the march had accused the Government of trying to destroy free education and health care of the country by conspiring with private Medical institutions like Lyceum Campus ,NSBM Green campus and Gateway Graduate school in view of selling Medical degrees .
Government had slashed the Price of a 50 Kilo gramme Cement bag by Rs.150 with effect from midnight last Saturday (13).
Accordingly the 50 Kilo gramme Cement bag has been reduced From Rs.2750 to Rs.2600 with the new price reduction .
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A Father was killed and his son was critically injured and hospitalized after an unidentified Gunman had shot them whilst riding a Motorcycle at Weligama-Akuressa Road Pitadeniya area yesterday (15).
The father was killed at the spot due to the incident and his son had been admitted to Matara,General hospital with critical injuries according to the Police.The reason behind the shooting has not yet been revealed.
Wrligama Police are investigating on the incident.
President Ranil Wikrmasinghe had removed the governors of three provinces with immediate effect as they have failed to step down from their posts as per the requests made the President's Media Division had announced.
Accordingly the Governors of North.Eastern and North Western provinces were removed by the President and the new governors will be appointed by the President tomorrow (17) The Media division had stated.
බාධක හමුවේ පළා යන පසුගාමී වූ ආදරයන් රැසක් හමුවේ සැබෑ ආදරයක් එල්ල වන බාධක ,අභියෝග ජය ගෙන දිනෙන් දින වැඩි වන ආදරයක් වී බබළයි . (උපුටා ගැනීමකි )
The first school Holiday term for this year will be commenced on 27 th of May and will last till 12 th of June according to the Ministry of Education .
The G,C,E Oridinary Level Examination is scheduled to be commenced on 29 th of May and will be held during that period .
A Motorcycle was suddenly caught fire whilst riding at Vavuniya Town yesterday (13) it has been reported.
The three persons on the Motorcycle including a child had escaped unhurt after jumping off the Motorcycle.The residents of the area had doused the fire .
Two Wild Elephants were killed after colliding with the Colombo-Trincomalee night mail train between Agbopura and Kithuluthiwa Railway stations yesterday (13)it has been reported .
Another Wild Elephant who was also collided with the same train had fled away from the scene to the nearby forest reserve with serious injuries according to the sources . Due to this accident trains on the Railway line had been delayed for few hours it has been reported.
The Price of Imported Milk Powder will be reduced by Rs.200 per a,Kilo Gramme Of Milk Powdet with effect from 15 th of May the Minister of Trade Nalin Fernando had stated.
Accordingly the Milk Powder Importers had agreed to reduce the Price Of Imported Milk Powder following the discussions held in this regard Minister had stressed.
However the Milk Powder Importers Association had stated that although they have agreed to slash the price of Imported Milk powder it will be reduced from June not from 15 th of May as the Minister had stated
