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 United Nations’s Human Development Report 2011 — Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All — has come down sharply on the widening income gap between rich and poor with huge amounts of wealth presently concentrated in the hands of the rich. It cited the examples of China, India …
For a country making strides as an emerging economic power, gender inequality remains an area where it compares poorly with the rest of the world. India is placed 129th among 146 countries in terms of GII, or gender inequality index, far behind neighbouring Sri Lanka at 74 and lagging most …
The Wildlife Conservation Department (WCD) has sought legal assistance against illegal forest clearing in Yoda Wewa Sanctuary, WCD Director General H D Ratnayake told the Daily News yesterday. He said that the Department filed a case in the Mannar Magistrate's court against the clearing of about 75 acres of forest …
Lanka IOC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation, will introduce for the first time in the Sri Lankan market, Euro III grade petrol in about a fortnight. Lanka IOC and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation have a duopoly on retail petrol and diesel sale in Sri Lanka. The Lanka IOC Managing …
Despite countless initiatives to alleviate malnutrition over the years, it affects hundreds of thousands of children in Sri Lanka. Understanding the determinants of malnutrition, as well as causes of higher childhood malnutrition amongst lower socio-economic groups is important for improving the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing childhood malnutrition, especially …
The Batticaloa water supply project was commissioned by President Mahinda Rajapaksa last week. This Scheme serves five Divisional Secretariat areas namely Manmunai North, Kattankudy, Manmunai Pattu, Eravur Town and Eravur Pattu. After ending the war situation, the area is now undergoing rapid development. As a result of the situation that …
The success of the onion diplomacy that played out earlier this year seems to have set the stage for the possibility of electricity trading between India and Pakistan. Faced with a serious power crisis, Pakistan is keen to draw power from India. A proposal aimed at setting up transmission infrastructure …
Sri Lanka Railways Planning Director Wijaya Samarasinghe said that a feasibility study is now underway to introduce a metro train service in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and its suburbs. The train is expected to link the important places of the city and the outskirts. The Railways plans to construct …
The Central Provincial Council has come up with a new plan to prevent the frequent forest fires occurring in the area during the dry season. Under the new plan, a belt of cactus plants would be planted on forest boundaries to act like a natural wall in order to prevent …
The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ), yesterday, submitted to the Court of Appeal, a letter written recently by the Registrar of Pesticides, to Provincial Directors of Agriculture, regarding the release of pesticides containing Arsenic. The petitioner, CEJ, through its counsel, Ravindranath Dabare, informed the Court, that the Registrar of Pesticides …
Sri Lanka's Coast Conservation Department has announced that it is to take measures to fine on a daily basis the owners of illegal buildings on the island's coasts till they remove those buildings. Director General of the Coast Conservation Department Anil Premaratne has said that approval has been granted to …
Two nature scientists, Dr Kavinda Amarasinghe and Chandika Wijeratna have been able to identify a new variety of Binara in the Knuckles Range, one of the World Heritage Sites. The features of this flower are equal to the blue Binara which can be seen in the cloud forest of the …
A feasibility study for the interconnection of electricity grids between India and Sri Lanka is expected to be complete by December this year, more than a year after the two countries agreed on the proposal. The nearly Rs 4,000-crore India-Sri Lanka grid interconnection project would see exchange of up to …
The Sri Lankan government plans to spend over Rs. 97 million to purchase rabies vaccines to combat the fatal viral disease transmitted through animals. The government Wednesday received the approval of the cabinet to procure 140,000 vials of rabies vaccine at a cost of US $ 868,000. The Sri Lankan …
Air Traffic Controllers all over the world celebrate " International Air Traffic Controllers Day" on the 20th of October every year. Air Traffic Controllers in Sri Lanka, working at the Bandaranaike International Airport and Ratmalana Airport , have decided to mark this event by introducing a new concept which has …
New Delhi: About one-third of all malaria-affected countries areexpectedtoeliminate the vector-borne disease in the next10 years. However, for the Southeast Asia region, the future isn’tthatbright. Maldives is the only country among the 11 nations in the region thathaseliminated malaria, while Sri Lanka and Korea are in the pre-elimination stage. The …
'Around 35 percent of the Sri Lankan population suffer from Osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is no longer considered an inevitable part of aging. Not all old men and women are affected. It is recognized now as a disease affecting only some men and women,' Prof. of Medicine attached to Karapitiya Medical Faculty …
There has been over 20 per cent decline in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, but the mosquito-borne disease continued to haunt India with the country witnessing over 1,100 deaths in 2009 after a steady decline since 2006. According to the 'World Malaria Report 2010' …
In another step towards food security, Odisha has been included in the international programme for Roots & Tuber Crops (RTC) initiated by the International Potato Centre (known by its Spanish acronym CIP). A two-day project planning meeting of the programme was inaugurated by chief secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik here on …
The world’s population will reach the seven billion mark on October 31 and with the increase in population, Sri Lanka too will face a number of challenges, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said today. UNFPA sources said Sri Lanka would have to face a number of socio-economic challenges with …
