Five Persons Have Injured And Hospitalized Due To A Gun Shooting In Batapola

Five persons including a father ,three children and

another person of the same family have been injured and hospitalized after two persons arrived in by a Motorcycle had shot at them near the Eriyapitiya stadium at Batapola ,Ambalangoda this evening (31).

Four of the injured have been admitted to the Balapitiya Hospital for treatment and one person was admitted to the Batapola Hospital.

The cause of the shooting not yet been revealed and the gunmen had fled away from the scene after the gun shooting.

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Government Pharmacists To Launch An Islandwide Token Strike Tomorrow(01)

Government Pharmacists have been decided to launch an Island Wide one day token strike from 8  a.m tomorrow(01) to 8 a.m on day after(02) by opposing the Health Ministry's decision to suspend the postgraduate degree program me on clinical Pharmacology conducted in Post Graduate Institute of Medicine in Colombo under the influence of Government Medical Officers Association(GMOA) according to the Government Pharmacists Union.

Due to the strike the issuing of Drugs to the Clinical  patients in OPD and  patients in wards of all Government Hospitals  will be paralyzed tomorrow and only the emergency services in the wards will be maintained as usual the Union has stated.

Due to the humanitarian reasons Pharmacists attached to the all Children,Mental,Cancer and Maternity Hospitals in the state sector will not participate in the strike the president of the Pharmacists Union Ajith.P.Thilakratne has stressed.

Cabinet Approved An Amendment On Making Compulsory To Obtain License For Toddy Tapping From Coconut And Palmyrah Trees

The Cabinet has approved an amendment proposed to the Excise Ordinance by the Ministry Of Finance And Mass Media to make compulsory the obtaining of a license for Toddy Tapping from Coconut and Palmyrah Trees.

Although the license should be required for Toddy tapping under the Excise Ordinance  it was later amended in 2013 by excluding Coconut,Kitul and Palmyrah trees from licensing system and as a result the Excise department has faced difficulty to monitoring the volume of  Toddy produced as distilleries when collecting Excise duty.

Although license is compulsory for Toddy tapping from Coconut and Palmyrah trees according to the new amendment ,the excluding of  Kitul Tree when obtaining a license for  Toddy tapping remains same according to the authorities. 

Railways Department To increase the Rail freight transportation charge by 50% from tomorrow(01)

The Railways Department has decided to the increase the Rail freight transportation charge by 50% with effect from tomorrow(01).

The Freight transportation charges will only increase on transportation of Commercial goods the Department has stated.

Cabinet has granted approval for the increase of Rail Freight transportation charge which is due to be implemented  first time after 2008 .