Tax relief for local production of electric bicycles
The manufacturing of electric bicycles should be encouraged as a local industry with a view to reducing fossil fuel consumption, said president Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The manufacturing of electric bicycles should be encouraged as a local industry with a view to reducing fossil fuel consumption, said president Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Following are the salient features of the interim budget for 2022 presented to parliament by president Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (30).
The Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) is not opposed to the opening of doors for foreign students to receive education in local institutions, said its MP Dr. Harini Amarasuriya.
Twenty-five students have been taken into custody during a protest by the Inter-University Students Federation in Colombo yesterday (30) afternoon, according to police media spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has proposed a compulsory tax registration for all Sri Lankans above 18 years of age without considering their annual income and tax-free thresholds.
The retirement age of employees in the public and semi-governmental sectors has been proposed to be reduced to 60 years.
A couple of months after economical and political turmoil in Sri Lanka, similar unprecedented sights emerged from Iraq on Monday.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said that the Interim Budget includes provisions for strengthening social safety net programmes.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91.
A preliminary draft has been presented for the establishment of a National Council, consisting of all parties represented in parliament.