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LocalTags: Print EditionThe Consumer Affairs Authority has published an extraordinary gazette notificationdated 19 April 2023 fixing a price ceiling for the sale of eggs. Extraordinary gazette No. 2328/05 is to come in to effect from today…

LocalTags: Print EditionMilk powder importers have expressed their willingness to further reduce milk powder prices. They had mentioned this during a meeting with Trade Ministry officials on Wednesday.  Earlier 1kg packet of imported milk…

LocalIrangika RangeTags: Print EditionThe Urban Development Authority (UDA) will prepare 172 development plans targeting the development of urban and rural areas covering 204 Local Government bodies before 2025. Spokesmen from the UDA said…

LocalGayan Kumara WeerasingheTags: Print EditionBuddhi Prabodha Karunaratne, a prominent figure in the ‘Aragalaya’ has committed suicide in the boarding room at Himbutana where he was staying.  The Mulleriyawa Police, who are investigating…

LocalTags: Print EditionClarifying on media reports that Sri Lanka is to export “hundred thousand” of “endangered” toque macaque monkeys to a Chinese private company for “experimental purpose”, the Chinese Embassy   yesterday said it had…

LocalMahanama Vithanage -Malwana Group Corr. and Sudath Pubudu Keerthi Delgoda Group Corr.At the inter-faith Ifthar in Malwana Tags: Print EditionAn inter-faith Ifthar organised by the Zahara Foundation and Malwana Defence Committee was…

LocalTags: Print EditionThe custom of panting a tree is very much a part of the Sinhala and Tamil new year, this year the auspicious time for planting tree is scheduled for tomorrow (20 April) at 6 38pm. In light of this the Ministry of…

LocalTags: Print EditionPrime Minister Narendra Modi will address the inaugural session of the first Global Buddhist Summit to be held in New Delhi tomorrow (20 April). According to the Inidian Prime Minister’s Office, the Summit will…

LocalBy Panduka SenanayakeTags: Print EditionNot far from the highest point of Mt. Kosciusko in the Australia Alps a group of Sri Lankan families last week marked the Sinhala Hindu new year in an unprecedented scale on Saturday April 15.…

LocalTags: Print EditionAround 15 persons including 12 school students were injured and hospitalized after a passenger bus transporting a group of schoolchildren, collided with a car in Kegalle yesterday (18) afternoon. The students…