Going gets slower at Colombo Port but calls quicken for solution

Industry stakeholders urge unions to call off action

The go-slow campaign hampering the Colombo Port continued despite Ports and Avian Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s request to unions and the Colombo District Court’s enjoining order restraining trade unions from working at less capacity.

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Tax payers increase by 15,400

The Department of Inland Revenue was able to attract nearly 15,400 new individual taxpayers in the past six months. Commissioner General of Department of Inland Revenue A.A. Wijepala told the Daily News that the department target was to gain 30,000 new individual taxpayers for this year.

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Case for structural reforms in power sector

The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has urged the Government to implement the proposed new structural changes in utility bodies and to set up an independent regulatory machinery for proper decision making as a short-term solution, its sources said.

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