Govt. seeks rapid boost in tax revenue
Inland Revenue Dept. exceeds June
target by Rs 3 Billion, detects 300 VAT dodgers
Junior Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambapalitiya
yesterday said the government couldn’t act beyond the law though the
Auditor General and parliamentary watchdog committees, the Committee on
Public Enterprises (COPE) and Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) had
revealed waste, corruption and irregularities.
Business tycoon Harry Jayawardena and Mrs Jayawardena in
conversation with former President Chandrika Bandaranaike
Kumaratunga at the French National Day celebrations held at the
French Ambassador’s residence.
(Photo-Dimuthu Premaratne)
Cancer hospital nurses for
mental and eye hospitals
Nurses who served more than two years at the Maharagama
Cancer Institute (MCI) will be transferred to the Angoda Mental Hospital
and to the National Eye Hospital. This will be a continuous process. The
Health Ministry said the decision had been taken on humanitarian grounds
as requested by the nursing staff of the Institute.
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