Due to the increase of Social Security Tax The price of the 400 Gramme Imported Milk Powder pack has been increased by Rs.100 with effec t from yesterday (09) according to the Milk Powder Importers Association. 
According to the price hike new price of 400 Gramme Milk Powder pack will be Rs.1240 the Association has stated .
President Ranil Wikramasinghe has advised the Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera to stop the importation of rice to the country due to the arrival of rice harvest of the Yala season to the market .
The Gazette notification in this regard is scheduled to be issued soon Minister Amaraweera has stressed .
The Ministry of Education has today (09)granted a special leaves for all the schools Island wide due to the adverse weather pattern including the toxic air smog prevails in the country .
The air quality of several cities in the country including Colombo and Kandy is being poor due to the flowing of toxic air particles from India National Building Research Orgxnization (NBRO)has stated .
වචනවලින් මෙන්ම ක්රියාවෙන්ද අනෙකාව පහළ දැමීමට මාන බලමින් සිටින පුද්ගලයන් බහුතරයක් වෙසෙන සමාජයක වදනකින් මෙන්ම ක්රියාවෙන්ද තමන් ආදරය කරන අයව දිරි ගන්වන ,මානසිකව වැටීමට ඉඩ නොදෙමින් යහපතක්ම කරන ආදරණීයයන් ජීවිතයට ශක්තියකි (උපුටා ගැනීමකි )
The Ministry Of Power and Energy has decided to resume operations in Sapugaskande Oil Refinery which is closed down due to the shortage of Crude oil ,from 15th of December .
Sapugaskande Oil Refinery will resume operations due to the arrival of two ships containing 200,000 Metric tones of Crude oil to the country the Ministry has stated . The stock of Crude oil has already unloaded from the ships it has been stated .
Sapugaskande Oil Refinery had stopped it's functions as a result of Crude oil shortage .
Dodangoda Police have arrested a Pharmacy Assistant attached to a Private Hospital in Maharagama area (Colombo District ) with 800 Narcotic pills in his possession according to Dodangoda Police.Police had also taken in to custody a mobile phone belongs to the suspect used to distribute these narcotic pills ..
The suspect had brought these Narcotic pills to distribute among school children and students studying in Tuition classes Police have revealed .
