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Prices of all flour-based products increased

Prices of all flour-based products increased

Nov 29, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Bakery owners have increased all flour-based products with effect from midnight yesterday (28), a spokesman for ... Read More

Price of bread increased

Price of bread increased

Nov 28, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Bakery Owners’ Association says that the price of a 450g loaf of bread will be ... Read More

Report on LP gas composition to be handed over today

Report on LP gas composition to be handed over today

Nov 27, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - State Minister of Consumer Protection Lasantha Alagiyawanna today informed Parliament that he will receive the laboratory ... Read More

President gives directives to import Molnupiravir antiviral COVID drug

President gives directives to import Molnupiravir antiviral COVID drug

Nov 26, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed State Minister of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana to take required measures ... Read More

Contingency Plans necessary for Festive Season

Contingency Plans necessary for Festive Season

Nov 26, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Sri Lanka’s Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said that there is a need for Contingency Plans ... Read More

LMD Dharmasena appointed as the new Examinations Commissioner General

LMD Dharmasena appointed as the new Examinations Commissioner General

Nov 26, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Education LMD Dharmasena has been appointed as the new Exams ... Read More

MP Mahinda Samarasinghe resigned

MP Mahinda Samarasinghe resigned

Nov 25, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Mahinda Samarasinghe, who is due to assume duties as the Sri Lanka Ambassador to the United ... Read More

Guidelines for the appointment of President’s Counsels

Guidelines for the appointment of President’s Counsels

Nov 25, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Secretary to the President has issued an extraordinary gazette notification with a new set of ... Read More

Three arrested over Kinniya ferry disaster

Three arrested over Kinniya ferry disaster

Nov 24, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Three persons have been arrested in connection with the capsizing of a passenger ferry at the ... Read More

Kinniya ferry tragedy – Ferry owners flee the area

Kinniya ferry tragedy – Ferry owners flee the area

Nov 24, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The committee appointed by the Eastern Province Governoe to inquire into the incident where a ferry ... Read More

Govt won’t act discreetly regarding new Constitution -PM

Govt won’t act discreetly regarding new Constitution -PM

Nov 23, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says the government will not act discreetly regarding the new Constitution. (more…) Read More

‘Registrar of Pesticides undermined the state policy’ – Aluthgamage

‘Registrar of Pesticides undermined the state policy’ – Aluthgamage

Nov 23, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage says he has taken measures to remove the Registrar of Pesticides, ... Read More

Meters made mandatory for three-wheeler taxis

Meters made mandatory for three-wheeler taxis

Nov 21, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - State Minister of Transport Dilum Amunugama stated that the installation of meters will be made mandatory ... Read More

Child infections less, compared to senior citizens

Child infections less, compared to senior citizens

Nov 20, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Ministry of Health says only a low percentage of children are infected by the novel ... Read More

No intention of purchasing Chinese fertilizer tested by a third party

No intention of purchasing Chinese fertilizer tested by a third party

Nov 18, 2021

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) - The Ministry of Agriculture states that it is illegal for a third party to test samples ... Read More