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 wind power generator, Senok has placed an order for 10 units of wind turbine generators from the Wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy Ltd. to provide 21 MW of wind power capacity, Suzlon said in a press release today. Suzlon Energy, based in Pune, India, has won a repeat …
The Department of Wildlife Conservation is cooperating strategically with Sri Lanka Railways to prevent increasing elephant deaths on railway tracks before it can manifest into a elephant-train conflict as in India where at least 15 elephants die annually due to being run over by speeding goods trains. It has been …
It is revealed that around 100,000 persons end up blind due to cataract every year in Sri Lanka, while this amount globally is estimated at around 18 million. A number of countrywide programmes have been launched to mark ‘World Blind Day’ on October 13, said Health Ministry Additional Secretary Dr …
Suzlon Energy Ltd has secured a repeat order from Senok, Sri Lanka, to supply 10 units of Suzlon's S88 - 2.1 MW wind turbine generators, aggregating 21 MW of wind power capacity. The project will be commissioned in two phases and completed by May 2012. Suzlon had earlier supplied a …
The Sri Lankan government is to prepare and present a national policy for the private transport sector by the end of the year. Private Transport Ministry Secretary Victor Samarasinghe has said that the policy would be presented before the end of the year. The national policy would cover the private …
Sri Lanka has moved into regulation of hazardous chemicals and monitoring industries that use them. “I am glad to announce today that my Ministry has commenced the process of designing a Chemical Emergency First Responders’ Plan. What is important about this pioneering plan is the global compliance standard we will …
The forest department will experiment with chilli crackers to scare away elephant herds from forest villages. The aim is to reduce man-animal conflict in the region by preventing elephant herds from entering certain regions. Following an order by the state forest minister, Mr Hiten Barman, top forest officials plan to …
Nearly 40,000 children in Sri Lanka are affected with cerebral palsy – a disorder that affects a person’s ability to move and maintain balance and posture. It usually affects children within the first two years. Cerebral Palsy Lanka Foundation (CPLF) yesterday inaugurated the country’s first Resource and Rehabilitation Centre, at …
A Malaysian company broke grounds Thursday in a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo to build a plant to convert solid waste to energy. The Kuala Lumpur-based environmental waste management company, Octagon Consolidated Berhad ceremonially launched the project toady to build the plant at Karadiyana in Kesbewa. The build-own-operate …
Over two dozen countries, including Pakistan, will take part next week in a full-scale test of the Indian Ocean`s tsunami alert system, using the 2004 Sumatra quake as the basis for the exercise, Unesco said on Thursday. Exercise IOWAVE 11 will re-enact the seismic events of Dec 26, 2004, simulating …
Remarkable increase in rice production in island nation: M.S. Swaminathan The draft Indian Food Security Bill could provide valuable inputs to a similar Sri Lankan initiative, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said. The Indian Bill is designed to ensure that every citizen has a legal right to food. Mr. Rajapaksa made …
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday officially announced the finding of a natural gas field in the northwestern seas off Mannar for the first time. Addressing a function at the President's official residence in Kandy, the President has announced that Cairn Lanka, the company conducting the exploration has discovered …
It was revealed at a meeting of the Environmental Committee appointed to protect the Deduru Oya, that the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GS and MB) was still issuing permits for the transport of sand from the Deduru Oya, despite a ban imposed by the Supreme Court. Chilaw Area Police …
‘’It was informed that there is a growing demand for electricity in both the public and private sectors in Sri Lanka, as a result of post-war booming economy in all the areas including industrial, agriculture and tourism. I also heard that Sri Lankans are interested and concerned about the environment, …
Seven new Bills and several new amendments to existing acts were to be brought in order to streamline the health service, according to the Health Ministry sources. It is learnt that the drafting of these new Bills and the Amendments has been finalized along with the national drugs policy by …
The Government of Japan had agreed to provide a loan of Rs. 9,940 million (Japanese Yen 7,000 million) to implement this project. This loan was given at a concessionary interest rate of 0.01% per annum with a repayment period of 40 years including a grace period of 10 years. It …
Top sea turtle experts from around the globe have discovered that almost half (45 per cent) of the world’s threatened sea turtle populations are found in the northern Indian Ocean, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said yesterday. The study also determined that the most significant threats across all …
Cairn Lanka, a fully-owned subsidiary of Cairn India, has discovered natural gas reserves in the very first well it has drilled in the western coast of Sri Lanka. This is the first well to be drilled in Sri Lanka in 30 years and also first hydrocarbons discovery in that country. …
The Sri Lanka Pakistan Friendship Association and the High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka yesterday made an urgent appeal to the Sri Lankan people for flood relief to assist the six million people affected by the current floods in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The Sri Lanka-Pakistan Friendship Association …
About 18.4 in every 100,000 Sri Lankan women had breast cancer in 2005. This figure has gone up to 25, Health Ministry media coordinator W M D Vanninayake said. He said there has been an increase in breast cancer in Sri Lanka during the past 20 years. All Sri Lankan …
