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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Government Has Imposed An Import Tariff On Gold For The First Time

Government has decided to impose a 15% import tariff on the Gold import to Sri Lanka with effect from midnight yesterday(17) according to the Ministry Of Finance.

This is the first time that the Government had imposed a tariff on Imported Gold as up to now the Gold has considered as Tax free item.

Due to the new tariff imposed ,the Gold Prices are expected to rise it has been reported.

Imprisoned Retired Major General Amal Karunasekare Was Further Remanded

The former director of the Army Intelligence Unit Retired Major General Amal Karunasekare who was arrested and remanded over the encouraging the abduction of former Journalist attached to the Nation newspaper Keith Noyar on 22nd of May 2008 ,was remanded further until 02nd of May by the Mount Lavinia Magistrate Court today (18) after being produced before the court.

The lawyers of the imprisoned Retired Major General had submitted a bail application seeking bail for their client today when the suspect was produced before the court ,However the Lawyers representing the Government had strongly opposed granting him bail it has been revealed.

The suspect was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over encouraging the abduction of Keith Noyar .

Police Have Arrested Three Persons With 37 Kilo Grammes Of Kerala Cannabis

Punaryn Police have today (18)arrested three persons while transporting 37 Kilo Grammes of Kerala Cannabis in a Lorry from Jaffna to Puttalam ,at sangupitty bridge in Poonaryn Kilinochchi .

The suspects had transported the haul of Kerala Cannabis on the pretext of transporting a stock of steel it has been revealed.The value of the haul of Kerala Cannabis that taken in to custody in possession of the suspects is around Rs.5 million according to the Police.

The suspects of the ages 22 and 24 years old had purchased the stock of narcotic from a Drug Smuggler in Jaffna who brought it to Sri Lanka via a boat from India.

The three suspects are due to be produced before the Kilinochchi Magistrate Court.