{"id":97161,"date":"2020-01-01T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97161"},"modified":"2020-01-01T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:33:40","slug":"govt-suspends-import-of-ethanol-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/01\/govt-suspends-import-of-ethanol-with-immediate-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. suspends import of ethanol with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Chaturanga Samarawickrama <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Government suspended the import of ethanol for liquor manufacturing with immediate effect, the Ministry of Finance, economic and policy development Ministry said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said the decision was taken following the instructions given by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is also the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said required Ethanol is manufactured locally.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily News The Government suspended the import of ethanol for liquor manufacturing with immediate effect, the Ministry of Finance, economic and policy development Ministry said today. They said the decision was taken following the instructions given by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is also the Finance Minister. He also said required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97161","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=97161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}