Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management has rejected local media reports that claimed the government is to impose a tax on ground water wells. Rejecting the media reports, the Water Supply and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has explained that it is the government's responsibility to protect the …
The Coconut Development and Janatha Estate Development Ministry has taken a number of measures to control pests and diseases affecting the coconut crop with the objective of increasing production and meeting future demands of the coconut industry, Coconut Development and Janatha Estate Development Minister Jagath Pushpakumara said. The minister said …
Oct 15, Colombo: Four islands off of Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula in the North will be fully electrified with a combined network of solar and wind power. The Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka has revealed that the islands of Delft, Nainathivu (Nagadeepa), Analathivu and Elivathivu islands will …
State governments have acted positively to protect it, say agencies The lion-tailed macaque, one of India’s endangered mascot species, is no longer on ‘The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates’ list, after the international body compiling it determined that the State governments had acted positively to protect it. The list of …
Sri Lanka Geological Survey and Mines Bureau chairman Dr. M.J. Wijayananda says that the country will survey its mineral reserves fully after 56 years. The last time such a survey was conducted was 1956, the Bureau says. A South African company will start the survey in January using a low-flying …
India’s spending on agriculture research and development, though among the best in South- Asia, is still much below its nearest competitors like Brazil and China, a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has said. Agriculture Research in India is largely funded by public agencies and channelized through …
Oct 11, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Cabinet of ministers has given President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance and Planning approval to obtain a loan of US$ 40 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to complete a water and sanitation project for dry zone. At the …
Wildlife Department Provincial Director Manjula Amararatne told the media the department will pay compensation to all those who had been victims of wild elephant attacks. Earlier victims of wild elephant attacks had to wait for years to get compensation but now the Department has planned to pay compensation within two …
Villagers in Sri Lanka's Polonnaruwa District complain of lacking potable water due to the pollution of a few streams that still have some water amidst the drought. Villagers of Unagalavehera have said that paddy husk is being discarded to the Kumbukkan Aruwa by rice mill owners resulting in the pollution …
Sri Lanka will take the first step to the hydrogen fuel era with the first ever hydrogen workshop in Colombo tomorrow. A hydrogen desk set up in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka under the assistance of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has organized the Hydrogen and Renewable …
The 2012 Global Food Security Index has ranked Sri Lanka in the 62nd position out of 105 countries. The Global Food Security Index considers the core issues of affordability, availability, and quality across a set of 105 countries when ranking the countries. According to the Index, United States of America …
The Asian Development Bank will provide financial assistance for agricultural development in the Mannar district. “The ADB agreed to provide US $ 0.5 million for the project on Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane’s request,” an Agriculture Ministry official said. Agricultural machinery and farming material for 700 families in Vadathivu, Manthai, …
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) will implement102 rural electrification projects in the Southern region, a senior CEB official said. Rs. 480 million in funds has been allocated for the implementation of these rural electrification projects, granted under foreign aid and the Jathika Saviya Gama Neguma project.
Urban land-cover change threatens biodiversity and affects ecosystem productivity through loss of habitat, biomass, and carbon storage. However, despite projections that world urban populations will increase to nearly 5 billion by 2030, little is known about future locations, magnitudes, and rates of urban expansion. Here we develop spatially explicit probabilistic …
The 2012 Sri Lanka human development report examines the social and economic disparities across Sri Lanka’s geographic regions. It also highlights development differences amongst provinces and districts to the extent that data are available, focusing in particular on spatial disparities. It assesses the health, education, employment and governance sectors, and …
India has been ranked 66, much lower than neighbouring China, in the 2012 Global Food Security Index released today by the American chemical company DuPont. With India expected to be the most populous country in the world by 2025, feeding the population is likely to be one of the serious …
Sri Lanka has the lowest infant mortality rate in the South Asian region. The Health Ministry has taken measures to further reduce the number of new born deaths in the country and introduced several measures to secure the health of new born babies, ministry Secretary Dr Nihal Jayathilake said. Around …
The US National Science Foundation has granted a five-year, $3.7M grant through their Water Sustainability and Climate program to the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment (VIEE) for a unique interdisciplinary study of agricultural adaptation to water scarcity in Sri Lanka's Mahaweli River Watershed (MRW). The VIEE study was developed …
The Supreme Court granted six weeks’ time to the Central government to communicate its stand on the Sethusamudram project. A Bench of Justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad accorded more time to the government after Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman said the Union Cabinet required to discuss the issue …
Sri Lanka will start an aerial survey of its mineral resources, said Geological Survey and Mines Bureau chairman Dr. M.J. Wijayananda. A South African company had been selected through a tender procedure to conduct the survey. The survey will cost $ 17 million and is expected to take one and …
