40 TUs to meet the President today!
Arrangements have been made to hold a discussion between the Professionals’ Trade Union collective and President Ranil Wickremesinghe today (25).
Media spokesman of the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) – Dr. Chamil Wijesinghe says that they are to demand to abolish the unfair tax policy imposed by the government, at the discussion.
He added that representatives of all 40 trade unions will attend the discussion which will be held today at 10.30 am.
The TUs include professionals from several fields including port, electricity, medicine, water supply, banking, petroleum and university academics.
They have been protesting a recent hike in personal income taxes which sees anyone earning over 100,000 rupees a month being taxed.
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Man remanded for hurling slipper at foreigner
A man who faces charges of hurling a slipper at a foreigner traveling on the ‘Udarata Menike’ upcountry train a few days back, has been remanded.
Taking up the case yesterday (24), Acting Magistrate of the Bandarawela Magistrate court had ordered the suspect to be remanded until March 08.
The suspect, has been identified as a resident of the Walasbedda area, Bandarawela, and a father of one.
Video footage showing the suspect hurling a slipper at the train which hit a foreigner on the face, had gone viral on social media, sparking public outage and prompting immediate action by the authorities.
Trade Minister Nalin Fernando says that a ship carrying the first consignment of eggs imported from India is scheduled to reach Sri Lanka by tomorrow (26).
He says that it contains 02 million eggs which have been decided to be used only for bakery products.
Minister of Agriculture – Mahinda Amaraweera had recently instructed the Department of Animal Production and Health to prepare a series of guidelines to be used when importing eggs.
Accordingly, gloves are required when handling imported eggs while the eggshells should be safely disposed of or destroyed. It is said that the eggshells should not be released into the environment at any cost.
The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that these guidelines will be issued with the objective of preventing the avian flu virus from entering the country.
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