Even as the Department of Registration of Persons has made arrangements to introduce an electronic identity card next year, a container-load of laminating rolls for the identity cards presently in use has been imported, reports say.

The CEB has informed the government that it cannot bear the burden of three taxes amended through budget 2016 as per its balance sheet.

Top level Customs officers and a female secretary in the Finance Ministry are assisting racketeers to import arecanut without license for re-export, according to reports reaching Sri Lanka Mirror.

The cabinet has approved the formulation of new laws to punish fishermen accused of violating international waters, in order to get the European Union ban on Sri Lanka’s fish products removed.

Extremist groups in and outside the country with political agendas are spreading rumours that Sri Lanka’s state security is in danger, says defence secretary Dr. Karunasena Hettiarachchi.

Saranga Wijeyaratne, chief executive officer of Suyamas Group of Companies, has been recognized as one of the 50 most influential marketers at the World Marketing Congress that took place in Mumbai, India yesterday (27).