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 …
The Environment Ministry will prepare a national Climate Change adaptation action plan for Sri Lanka, based on the National Climate Change Policy and National Adaptation Strategy, Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said. Participating as the Chief Guest at the inauguration ceremony of the regional workshop on Decentralization and Climate Change …
The International Finance corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is considering providing a financing package of up to US$ 9 million for a project to convert solid waste to energy in Sri Lanka's Western Province. The IFC in an Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) released on …
Due to rampant illicit sand mining in Ma Oya the lands on either side of it have been eroded and washed into the stream and the sea at Kochchikade.Hence thousands of people who make a livelihood from the Oya are in dire straits.The number of acres that have been subjected …
Mayor of Colombo A. J. M. Muzammil said yesterday (30) that the floods in some parts of the city would soon be a thing of the past as the World Bank had granted US$ 180 million to upgrade the city drainage system, including the storm water system. The Mayor told …
Sri Lanka's environmentalists say that the people of certain areas of the island tend to catch the crocodiles and hand over them to the Wildlife Department. Environmental lawyer Jagath Gunawardena says that the some incidents of mysterious deaths of crocodiles also had been reported, especially in Nilwala River of Matara …
The Sri Lankan government is to introduce new regulations to ensure that vehicle horns comply with the permissible noise levels. The new regulations are to enable the Commissioner-General of Motor Traffic to authorize officers of the Motor Traffic Department to carry out tests to ensure that motor vehicles comply with …
The cardamom cultivation which was a major threat to the Knuckles forest reserve has been removed to a greater extent and forest lands belonging to the Lands Reforms Commission will be vested with the Forest Conservation Department (FCD), said Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa. Addressing a press conference at the …
Abans introduced Panasonic HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin Layer) Photovoltaic Modules - the most efficient, technologically-advanced solar cells in the world with high output by minimizing power generation losses. Current energy crisis and high cost of electricity gives a very good opportunity to introduce solar energy conversion to electricity as …
In course of a decade, Nepal and four other countries in the South-East Asia Region, namely Bhutan, DPR Korea, Thailand and Sri Lanka have brought down the number of confirmed malaria cases by more than half, WHO said in a statement issued on the occasion of the World Malaria Day, …
“Nearly 9.7 million children in the South-East Asian region still do not get the most basic of vaccines like the third dose of DTP-containing vaccine. Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Growing opportunities through new funding as well as research and development initiatives should not go …
Ahead of the World Bank's Spring Meetings here this week, government ministers from almost 40 developing countries are meeting with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UK International Development Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell, Chair of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation HRH the Prince of …
The per capita energy use in South Asia remains the lowest among all developing regions even after an increase of 51 per cent from 340 to 514 kilograms of oil equivalent between 1990 and 2009, reveals new statistics released by the World Bank on Friday. But the structure of fuel …
The Centre came up with a blank today on whether to declare Ram Setu in the Palk Strait a national monument, leaving the Supreme Court with no option but to interpret the government’s silence as its unwillingness to take a position “this way or the other”. In its order, an …
Environmentalists are protesting against what they term a massive land grab by some government politicians in the Buttala forest reserve. They have placed the extent of state land allegedly acquired by politicians at 500 acres. The Environment Conservation Trust (ECT) has written to the Wildlife Conservation Department that a minister …
Sri Lanka issuing a statement regretted the Indian media reports linking Sri Lanka's concerns of the safety of nuclear power plants in India to India's vote against Sri Lanka for the UN resolution at the Human Rights Council Session in Geneva last month. The Chairman of Sri Lanka's Atomic Energy …
Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said that attention is being paid to make the eco -friendly certification compulsory for products exported from Sri Lanka. He observed that this move is necessary since eco -friendly certification has become compulsory for the majority of products in many countries around the world. He …
Colombo Sri Lanka today said it had not objected to the Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu and underlined that India has every right to use nuclear technology in meeting the requirements of energy. ‘‘Sri Lanka has not brought up the issue of the safety of Kudankulam power plant …
Days after Sri Lankan Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka said Colombo would oppose the Koodankulam nuclear project, the chief of the island nation’s nuclear body said Monday that they had no such intention. “Sri Lanka has not brought up the issue of the safety of Koodankulam plant against India’s voting at …
KARAIKAL: The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant will start production in 45 days, Union Minister of State V Narayanasamy said here on Sunday. Speaking to mediapersons, the minister said that after the inspection by the nuclear reactor team, the trial for enrichment of uranium fuel will be initiated in 20 days …
Sri Lanka on Monday said it had not objected to the Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu and underlined that India has every right to use nuclear technology in meeting the requirements of electrical energy. “Sri Lanka has not brought up the issue of the safety of Kudankulam Nuclear …
