Government has decided to remove the Ports and Airport tax from the 18 percent VAT (value added tax) Tax scheduled to be imposed on Fuel and Gas with effect from 01st of January next year according to the Tax policy advisor to the Ministry of Finance Thanuja Perera.
Accordingly 7.5 percent Ports and Airport Tax imposed on fuel as well as the 2.5 percent Ports and Airport tax imposed on Gas will be removed from the 18 percent VAT scheduled to be imposed on these products from 01st of January.
The imprisoned Six suspects including the former Secretary to the Ministry Of Health Janaka Chandragupta had been further remanded until 10th of January by Maligakanda Magistrate Court last Wednesday (27) over the controversial purchasing of Substandard Human Immunoglobulin Injection vials for Government Hospitals.
Out of these suspects the Former Health Secretary was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on 18th of December after arriving at CID headquarters to give a statement .
මරණ ගෙදරකට යන අයෙකුට මිය ගිය අය වෙනුවෙන් වැලපිය නොහැකි වුවද අනිසි ලෙස සිනහ විමෙන් හෝ වැළකී සිටිය හැකිනම් එය මියගිය අයට මෙන්ම පවුලේ සාමාජිකයන්ට ලබා දිය හැකි ඉහළම ගෞරවය වනු ඇත.(උපුටා ගැනීමකි ).
A 15 year old Student has died after drowning in a Deep Water hole belongs to the Galabada water fall at Nawalapitiya area this evening(26)according to Nawalapitiya Police.
The deceased student was identified as a resident of Panabokka in Kadugannawa area snd faced this incident whilst bathing with few of his friends it has been revealed .
A 46 year old Prison inmate at Kalutara Prison has died due to a brawl occurred among inmates of the Prison yesterday (25).
The critically injured prison inmate had succumbed to his injuries whilst receiving treatment at Nagoda Hospital it has been reported.The deceased has been iidentified as a resident of Molkava area .The Prison Department is currently conducting an investigation over the death of the prison inmate.
