Trade Unions and Civil Organizations are due to launch a massive protest campaign on coming Wednesday (02) over government's police suppression against trade unions and students ,
A large number of persons including trade unionists and Civil activists are scheduled to be participated the protest campaign
The wholesale traders in Colombo Fort had reduced the Price of a Kilo Gramme of Wheat Flour to Rs.250 according to the Essential goods importers Association .
After receiving the license to import Wheat flour through open accounts the Wheat flour importers are expecting to import large stocks of Wheat flour to the country the Association has stated .
බොහෝ දෙනාට තමන් විසින් රැකගත යුතු තමන්ගේ අය ගැන තැකීමක් නොමැත්තේ ඔවුන් ගැන සොයා බැලීමක් හෝ ඔවුන් පැමිණෙන තෙක් නොකා බලා සිටීමේ හෝ වද වීමේ පුරුද්දක් නැත්තේ සැබෑ ආදරයක වටිනාකම නොදන්නා නිසාය ,එහෙත් එම සැම දෙයක්ම අකුරටම ඉටු කරන ආදරයකට අකුල් හෙලීමටනම් බොහෝ දෙනා දෙවරක් නොසිතනු ඇත ,(උපුටා ගැනීමකි )
The Ministry of Trade,Commerce and Food has decided to give permission to private importers to import Wheat flour through Open accounts with effect from yesterday (28) until 31st of December .
This was announced during a meeting held between Minister of Trade and Commerce Nalin Fernando and the representatives of the Essential food Commodities Importers and Traders Association at the Ministry yesterday (28). This meeting was held to discuss on providing essential commodities to the General public during upcoming festive season without a shortage ,
The need to reduce the prices of Bread and Bakery products during the upcoming festive season had been also discussed at this meeting .
The Ministry of Agriculture had yesterday(28) received 13, 000 tones of Urea fertilizer provided under the Concessionary Loan scheme of US dollars 110 million provided by the World Bank .
Ministey has decided to provide 50 kilo gramme bag of Urea received under the World bank project to the farners for Rs.10,000 each it has been announced
Sri lankan paddy farmers need nearly 150,000 tones of Urea fertilizer to use in their paddy fields for the Maha season it has been revealed.
The Public Utilities Commission (PUS) had yesterday (28) given permission to implement a one hour long power cut during the weekend and two hour long power cut on next Monday (31) in the 20 zones of the island A to W .
Accordingly the one hour power cut during the weekend will be implemented during 5.30 p.m to 8.30 p.m and the two hour long power cut scheduled for next Monday will be implemented one hour during the day time and one hour in the night .
