A new oil refinery to be built even with a foreign loan There have been barriers when purchasing oil from Iran. Hence it has been decided to build a new refinery at the Sapugaskanda petroleum corporation. This matter is been contemplated seriously by the government. The Minister of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation,Anura Priyadarshana Yapa is [...]

For the strike no bus associations were involved In protest of the electricity tariff hike a massive strike of the trade unions were organised. It is learnt that no bus association had involved in the strike and all busses had run to schedules. The National transport commission has been informed from all parts of the [...]

No leave for CTB employees on Vesak week The CTB officials have notified that all leave for drivers, conductors and technicians have been cancelled from yesterday for one week until the Veska week is over. Al depots have been informed that this decision had been made to incres the productivity of the Board. The Director [...]

Foreign milk powder are not harmful – WHO WHO has informed the health ministry that there are no  dicyanamide (DCN) In imported milk powder. WHO informed to the unit of food and environmental health in ministry of health that there is no any indicator to measure dicyanamide in milk powder as per the request of [...]

A massive racket…..unapproved performance enhancing drink in the market The internal news of Ayurvedic Department reveals that a drink which was not approved as power enhancing drink by the department has been issued to the market by a few senior officers. It reveals that these officers have been paid for this racket by the relevant [...]