Devotees participate in the offering of the Gilanpasa Buddha Pooja at the Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya yesterday to mark Vap Pasalosvaka Poya.  Picture by Dudley Wickramasinghe.

Rice price down 35% in local market

by Uditha Kumarasinghe

The Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry decision to import rice has led to a reduction in the price of rice in the local market by nearly 35 per cent. The Ministry has already imported nearly 4000 metric tons of rice from Pakistan and India aimed at arresting the high rice prices in the local market, a Ministry spokesman told the Daily News yesterday.
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Attack on Lake House correspondent condemned

by L.B.Wijayasiri in Kandy

Jathika Hela Urumaya Kandy district MP Ven. Udawatte Nanda Thera has added his voice to the growing protests by the people of Kandy against the brutal assault on Lake House Kandy correspondent Sanjaya Asela Maturata carried out by a UNP Pradeshiya Sabha member during a party protest rally in Kandy Town on Tuesday.
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