The National Water Supply and Drainage Board had iimplemented a twelve hour long water cut in five divisions in Colombo City since 6 P.M last evening (23) due to an essential maintainance work of a pipeline according to the Board.
Accordingly water supply to Colombo 11,12,13,14 and 15 is being stopped since 6 p.m last evening until 5 am this morning (24)due to the essential maintainance work of the Ambatale water supply system improvements and energy savings .
Government had increased the Port and Airport tax imposed on Imported Milk Powder with effect from yesterday (22) according to the Minister Of Trade Nalin Fernando.
However the Prices of Imported Milk Powder will not increase as the prices of Milk powder in the world market has been decreased recently the Milk Powder Importers Association Has stated
සැබෑ ආදරයක් බොහෝ විට පිළිඹ්බු වනුයේ තමන් ගන්නා සේයාරුවකින් නොව අන්යයන් අහඹු ලෙස,ග්රහණය කරගනු ලබන සේයාරූ වලිනි.නිහතමානිත්වය හා අවංකකමද එලෙසමය.කෙනෙකු තුළ පවතින එම ගුණාංග සැබෑ නම් එය වෙනත් පාර්ශ්වයකින් හෙළිදරව් වනු ඇත.(උපුටා ගැනීමකි)
The Passara-Madolsima Road at Sohona junction ,first post in Badulla District is being completely blocked due to the falling of a large soil mound and tree branches from a,slope as a result of the heavy showers prevailing in the area according to the Badulla District secretariet
Due to this situation transport of the road is being blocked and those who were returning their homes from.office and school were faced enormous difficulties as a result it has been reported.The authorities had yesterday launched a mission to remove the soil mounf and tree branches from the road.
The Chicken Producers Association had agreed to reduce a Kilo Gramme of Chicken by Rs.100 with effect from today (22) during the discussions held yesterday (21)between the Association and Trade Minister Nalin Fernando according to the Ministry of Trade.
Accordingly the Chicken Producers had agreed to reduce the Price of a one kilo gramme of Chicken by Rs.100 from Rs.1250 to Rs.1150 the Ministry had stated.
