Vegetable prices in Kalpitiya have shown a sharp drop with most of them selling at Rs 100 per kilogram.
The drop of prices comes in the wake of the increase of produce.
Vegetable stocks heaped up on the roadsides with boards displaying they were available for sale at Rs 100 per kilogram has been a common site in the area as well as the Puttalam main road.
Among the vegetables for sale is carrot for Rs 100 per Kg.
A farmer said that one of the reason was that with the high vegetable prices in the past three months, many of the cultivators have increased the farming lands.
The drop in prices is likely to be reflected in markets in Colombo in the next few weeks.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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