Prices of 6 items at Sathosa, reduced

Lanka Sathosa has reduced the prices of six essential food items with effect from today (June 01).
Accordingly, the prices of wheat flour, big onions, red lentils, white sugar, chick peas and white Nadu rice have been reduced.
The revised prices are as follows:
Wheat Flour – Rs. 210 per 1kg (reduced by Rs. 15)
Big Onions – Rs.115 per 1kg (reduced by Rs. 14)
Lentils – Rs. 314 per 1kg (reduced by Rs. 11)
White Sugar – Rs. 229 per 1kg (reduced by Rs. 10)
Chick Peas – Rs. 545 per 1kg (reduced by Rs. 05)
White Nadu Rice – Rs. 175 per 1kg (reduced by Rs. 04)
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The CPC has reduced the prices of fuel with effect from midnight today (31).
The price of Petrol 92 Octane has been reduced by Rs.15 per litre to Rs.318 while the price of Petrol 95 Octane has been increased by Rs.20 to Rs.385 per litre.
In addition, the price of a Super Diesel litre has increased by Rs.10 to Rs.340 while a litre of Kerosene reduced by Rs.50 to Rs.245.
The price of Urea fertilizer is to be reduced.
According to Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera, the price of a 50kg Urea fertilizer bag sold to farmers by the two state-owned fertilizer companies will be priced at Rs. 9,000 from June 15.
“A bag of urea is sold by the private sector at Rs. 42,000 during the last yala season, has now been brought down by the private sector to Rs. 11,000. The reason for this was that the government took steps to provide a bag of urea to the farmers at a minimum price of Rs. 10,000,” the minister said.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has issued a public notice naming 08 entities that have conducted prohibited schemes.
The entities named are :
- Tiens Lanka Health Care (Pvt) Ltd.
- Best Life International (Pvt) Ltd.
- Global Lifestyle Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.
- Mark-Wo International (Pvt) Ltd.
- V M L International (Pvt) Ltd.
- Fast 3Cycle International (Pvt) Ltd (F3C)
- Sport Chain App, Sports Chain ZS Society Sri Lanka
- OnmaxDT
The CBSL further stated that any person who directly or indirectly initiates, offers, promotes, advertises, conducts, nances, manages or directs a scheme in contravention of the provisions of Section 83C of the Banking Act, No. 30 of 1988 shall be guilty of a punishable offence.
The complete public notice issued by the CBSL in this regard is as follows :