Govt nets Rs 100m

Sri Lankan illicit liquor distillers, wholesale and retail dealers, banned drugs and tobacco abusers and consumers together paid more than Rs. 100 million to the State coffers in fines, within the first seven months of this year. They were apprehended in more than 26,000 raids launched by the Sri Lanka Excise Department.

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Warm welcome to a close friend

President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in Colombo yesterday after attending the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Libyan revolution on an invitation extended by Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Khaddafi.

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Omanthai station - our own labour, funds

The first ever railway station in Sri Lanka built by Social Services and Social Welfare Ministry at a cost of Rs. 26 million with all modern International level public facilities will be opened at Omanthai on December 31, Social Services and Social Welfare Deputy Minister Lionel Premasiri told the `Daily News' yesterday.

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NAMAL and Acuity partners to launch Rs. 1 billion IPO

National Asset Management Limited (NAMAL) and Acuity Partners will launch the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the NAMAL Acuity Value Fund to the value of Rs 1 billion. This will be the first closed ended Unit Trust to be listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), CEO NAMAL S. Jeyavarman told a media briefing at the HNB Towers yesterday.

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