{"id":112934,"date":"2021-03-23T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T00:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112934"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T00:34:45","slug":"perfume-and-cosmetic-items-of-rs-17-2-bn-imported-within-five-years-cabraal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/23\/perfume-and-cosmetic-items-of-rs-17-2-bn-imported-within-five-years-cabraal\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfume and cosmetic items of Rs. 17.2 Bn imported within five years: Cabraal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It was revealed in Parliament that Rs. 17.2 billion has been spent to import perfume and cosmetic items within five years from 2015 to 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also revealed that the amount of perfume and cosmetic items imported to the country during the said period was 13.8 million kgs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These figures came to light when Ajith Nivard Cabraal responded to a question raised by Government MP Mohammed Muzammil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Muzammil said the imported perfume and cosmetic items are of low quality and requested the Minister to look into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Cabraal assured to implement a joint mechanism together with the Health Ministry to resolve this issue.&nbsp;<strong>(Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was revealed in Parliament that Rs. 17.2 billion has been spent to import perfume and cosmetic items within five years from 2015 to 2019. It was also revealed that the amount of perfume and cosmetic items imported to the country during the said period was 13.8 million kgs. These figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}