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Diesel
price reduction likely
Petrol price reduced by Rs. 15 per
litre
Polls gimmick, claims Opposition
The government and Lanka India Oil Company yesterday said that the price of petrol would be reduced with effect from midnight Tuesday (Dec. 29).
The revised price of 90 Octane Petrol would be Rs. 115 per litre, down from Rs. 130, and 95 Octane Petrol Rs. 133, down from Rs. 148, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation said.
The Opposition described the price reduction as a political gimmick to appease voters ahead of the forthcoming presidential election. CPC Chairman Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Asoka Thoradeniya told The Island that the price of diesel and kerosene had not been reduced and a...
Karan’goda demands Rs.
500mn from Fonseka
Former Navy Chief Admiral (Rtd) Wasantha Karannagoda has
sent a letter of demand seeking Rs. 500 million from Opposition
presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka for making a statement defamatory
of him in an interview with
Obama
vows to use
power to thwart terrorists
President Barack Obama on Monday...
Chamara Silva recalled for Bangladesh tri-series
The mutiny
in the TNA
One of the more significant developments that
has resulted from the presidential...
