Commission
recommends relief for low-users

Much of the blame on the high
cost of the telecommunication sector has been
placed on the Goods and Services Tax and this is
said to be the reason why there is no rapid
growth in modern technology use in the country. |

A
seventy-member delegation of Japanese
Buddhist monks now in Sri Lanka yesterday
participated in religious ceremonies at
the Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya to confer
merits on the late Thalewela Vijitha
Dhammarakkitha Nayake Thera and late
Presidents J. R. Jeyewardena and
Ranasinghe Premadasa. The head of the
Japanese delegation Ven. Iwatsubo Shinko
Maha Nayake Thera, chief incumbent of
Hadjogi Vihara, Japan carrying the sacred
relics and leading the Maha Sangha for
the Sanghika dana on the occasion. (Pic
by Jude Denzil Pathiraja). |
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