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Three new ‘green taxes’ coming
Customers buying items, including mobile phones, televisions, electrical items and computers which could be recycled later, will have to pay a tax as recycling charges from next year. The levy known as the ‘green cess’ is part of the Budget and will be implemented when the required regulations are passed in parliament, according to Central Environmental Authority (CEA) Chairman Udaya Gammanpila.
 
President defies West, will go to Iran

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will go ahead with his visit to Iran later this month amidst denials by the US that it had requested him not to travel to the country. The United States, increasingly agitated by defiant Teheran proceeding with its controversial Uranium enrichment programme, which many in the west see as heading in the direction of building atomic weapons, recently intensified its sanctions against that country along with its war of words, claiming that it has not removed the military option from the table.

 

Diplomatic scandal over Karuna, ties with Britain dip

Britain’s relations with Sri Lanka have taken a nose-dive after breakaway LTTE rebel leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias ‘Karuna Amman’ was arrested near London and found to have entered the United Kingdom on a Sri Lankan diplomatic passport issued by its Foreign Ministry and containing bogus bio-data.The Foreign Ministry in Colombo is reported to have issued a Third Person Note (TPN), a diplomatic letter of recommendation from one Government to another.
 

No leave bonus for public servants

The budget 2005 scheme for the public servants to get additional payment for unutilised leave as an incentive for them to be at their workplaces, has been cancelled without prior notice due to financial constraints, The Sunday Times learns. The scheme introduced to discourage public servants from taking leave has been cancelled after the government paid a staggering Rs. 6.5 billion for unuitlised leave in 2006. Public servants will not be paid the bonus for 2007.
 

   
Deadly diabetes takes its toll
   
Court martial for guilty peacekeepers
   
Media groups condemn Budget picture ban
   
Water Supply Board clarifies position on sewerage service charge - Right of reply
   
Ban on cell phones for under 18s?
   
Veteran newsman dies
 
Dissecting budget: Who says what
 
SC ruling on Appropriation Bill
 
Noise pollution – regulations to be effective from next year
 
Lankan choir wins gold
 
SEDEC organizes Deepavali celebration
 
Questions of overspending on foreign trips still unanswered
 
Kurunegala residents protest over dilapidated roads
 
 
JVP to honour fallen comrades
 
He waits in hope while mending soles
 
Odds and Ends
   
Tourists asked to come despite terrorism
   
Former service chiefs promoted
   
Rizana’s fate still in the balance
   
Fear stalks a once peaceful village
   
Divisional Secretary acquitted in breach of trust case
   
Civilian killed in Yala blast
   
Fund to finance homes for security forces
   
Students disappear, driver found dead
   

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