- President Ranil Wickremesinghe leaves the country to attend the COP’28 World Leaders Summit in Dubai: the President was accompanied by 3 Ministers, 2 Opposition MPs and 20 young participants passionate about environmental concerns.
- Overall Rate of Inflation, as per the CCPI, increases to 3.4% in Nov’23 from 1.5% in Oct”23: Food-Inflation increases to (-3.6)% in Nov’23 compared to (-5.2)% in Oct’23: Non-Food Inflation increases to 6.8% in Nov’23 from 4.9% in Oct’23.
- CPC Fuel prices revised: Octane 92 Petrol reduced by Rs.10 to Rs.346, Octane 95 Petrol increased by Rs.3 to Rs.426, Auto Diesel reduced by Rs.27 to Rs.329, Super Diesel increased by Rs.3 to Rs.434 and Kerosene reduced by Rs.2 to Rs.247 per litre: SINOPEC and LIOC also to revise their fuel prices, matching that of CPC.
- Chief Govt Whip & Minister Prasanna Ranatunga urges Speaker to take steps to manage the time of Parliament: says 552 minutes had been used by Ruling & Opposition MPs in Parliament in addition to their allocated times: also says Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has used 204 minutes out of that.
- Pastor Jerome Fernando provides a statement to the CID for around 8-hours: summoned to the CID today as well, to continue statement.
- Former Secretary to the Ministry of Health Janaka Chandragupta gives a statement for nearly 4 hours to the CID over the controversial Immunoglobulin import.
- Petition filed by Attorney-at-Law Dimitri Pietrangeli, alleging that a statement made by former Minister of Sports Roshan Ranasinghe during a recent Parliamentary session was prejudicial to the President of the Appeals Court: Appeals Court orders Ranasinghe to file objections, if any, on or before 15th Dec’23: Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene says the contempt of court case filed against MP Roshan Ranasinghe is wrong as no one can file legal action against an MP for the remarks he makes in Parliament.
- Director of National STD/AIDS Control Programme, Dr. Janaki Vidanapathirana says Smart Condom Vending Machines will be set up at public places to make it easy for the public to have access to condoms, as a measure to prevent HIV/AIDS.
- Commissioner General of the Dept of Motor Traffic Nishantha Weerasinghe says his Dept is unable to print about 900,000 driving licences due to the non-availability of blank plastic cards: also says his Dept is doing its best to solve the problem, which could be sorted out in 6 months or so.
- Minister of Sports Harin Fernando says he hopes to bring amendments to the prevailing Sports Act in the near future: asserts sports associations are the biggest problem for the Sports Ministry: laments that due to the issues of the associations, there is no time to focus on the issues of players.
