All liquor shops, bars, taverns and places selling alcohol will be closed from April 12 to 14 on the orders of the Excise Commissioner General.
The sale of liquor has been banned on April 13 and 14 fin view of Sinhala and Tamil New Year and on April 12 due to Day of Mourning, Excise Spokesman Superintendent Prabath Jayawickrama told www.news.lk.
He added that countrywide excise divisions and stations had been alerted to conduct special operations to apprehend and take legal action against law breakers.
The Government official news portal is maintains by the New Media Unit of the Department of Government Information and it was titled "news.lk" and commenced in mid1996 and release to Internet from March 01st, 1997.
News.lk publishes in three languages – Sinhala, Tamil and English.
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