Traders have raised concerns over the availability of food items for the upcoming festive seasons in view of possible shortages due trade union action by Customs officials.
With Ramadan, Sinhala and Tamil New Year and Easter celebrations due, Customs officials today stepped up their trade union action.
The concern arose in the face of 3500 containers being held up at the Colombo Port due to a dispute between the Sri Lanka Customs and the Treasury.
The cause of the clash was the Treasury's announcement that the balance in the Reward Fund under the Customs Director General would be transferred to the Finance Ministry.
Customs officials who withdrew from carrying out Overtime duties last Friday stepped up their action to a work to rule campaign.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
In his special statement, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that debt restructuring agreements will postpone all bilateral loan payments to foreign countries until 2028. Additionally, Sri Lanka will have until 2043 to repay these loans on concessional terms.
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