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The government has decided to levy a customer tax on credit and debit card usage when buying goods from abroad.

එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. ත්‍රස්තවාදී සංවිධානය යළි පිහිටුවිය යුතු යැයි පවසමින් රාජ්‍ය ඇමැතිනී විජයකලා මහේෂ්වරන් සිදුකළ ප්‍රකාශයට අදාළව ගොනු කර ඇති නඩුව නොවැම්බර් මස 01 වෙනිදා යලි කැදවීමට කොළඹ ප්‍රධාන මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණය අද (18) නියෝග කළා.

The Election Commission (EC) has asked the Treasury to allocate up to Rs. 7 billion for expenses related to the upcoming Presidential Election, Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya said yesterday.

A total of 1,034 complaints of election law violations and violence had been reported between October 8 to 19, the Elections Commission said today.

සිගරට් සඳහා වන තීරු බදු අඩුකිරිමට මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශය කටයුතු කර ඇත

Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera today defended a UN Resolution on Sri Lanka which was passed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2015.

The Vote on Account prepared by the Finance Ministry on the Government’s expenditure from January 1 to April 30, 2020 seeking the approval for Rs.1,474 billion will be presented to Parliament on October 23. The Vote on Account will also seek the approval for limiting loans to Rs. 721 billion during the first quarter of next year.

අප්‍රේල් 21 ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් තොරතුරු විමර්ශනය කළ පාර්ලිමේන්තු විශේෂ තේරීම් කාරක සභාව අද පස්වරුවේ යළි රැස්වීමට නියමිතව තිබේ.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says there is wide consensus for devolution of powers within a united Sri Lanka.

ජනාධිපතිවරණයට අදාළ තැපැල් ඡන්ද පති‍්‍රකා රාජ්‍ය ආයතන සදහා බෙදා හැරීම මේ වනවිට ආරම්භ කර තිබෙනවා.

ජනාධිපතිවරණයට අදාළව තැපැල් ඡන්ද පති‍්‍රකා අද තැපෑලට භාර දීමට නියමිතව තිබෙනවා.

Sri Lanka’s third international airport, the Jaffna International Airport (JIA), was declared open today.

Primary Industries and Social Empowerment Minister Daya Gamage yesterday informed the Presidential Commission that the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) had decided to store paddy at Mattala Airport after the airport officials had given them permission to execute this decision in 2015.

Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday reacted to the remarks by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa over the question of missing persons and strongly defended the UN Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 adopted in 2015,

වත්මන් ජනපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ ධුර කාලයේ අවසන් මාසය අදින් (17දා) ආරම්භ වේ.

The Government Analyst’s Department is to soon submit its report on the mysterious deaths of seven elephants in Habarana to the Kekirawa Magistrate Court.

The government will present a vote on account in parliament on October 23 to allocate government expenses for the first quarter of next year, the Speaker’s Office said yesterday.

Four of the presidential candidates had placed the letters pertaining to appointing their election representatives in one envelope and if this continues, he will reveal the names of these candidates, said the Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya.