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 …
New Delhi: Despite witnessing high economic growth during the last few years, India has been ranked below many of its neighbouring countries like China and Pakistan, a global hunger index published on Monday by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said. One of the few economies to register healthy growth …
Livelihood security has been interpreted in different ways by various scholars. While livelihood has been defined as an adequate flow of resources (both cash and kind) to meet the basic needs of the people, access to social institutions relating to kinship, family and neigbourhood, village and gender bias free property …
A religious ceremony in connection with a programme to provide potable water and toilet facilities to 1500 temples in remote parts of the country was inaugurated at the Kataragama Kiriwehera and the Hunupitiya Gangarama worksite yesterday. The project has been implemented under the guidance of the Chief Incumbent of the …
The Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) of Sri Lanka established in the early nineties by a group of young volunteers with the aim of conserving marine turtles is also helping a number of community based projects. With the assistance of UNDP
A herd of more than 70 elephants that roamed into the Kiralogama area in Thalawa in the early hours of yesterday morning caused much havoc and trampled a villager to death. The victim E.M.P. Kapurubanda (78) was tending his paddy field when one of the wild elephants in the herd …
A new venture is to commence operations in Sri Lanka to help businesses minimise their environmental footprint and take advantage of carbon gains. According to officials, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's Inspector General of Police (IGP) has said that its Environmental Police Unit has filed 4,212 cases against environment polluters in Colombo so far in September. IGP Mahinda Balasuriya told the media Thursday that a total of 4,585 cases were reported during the past six months with the highest …
Importers of Electronic consumer durables will have to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The Central Environment Authority (CEA) in a fortnight to collect, and dispose of e-waste, officials said. Importers of goods that use hazardous materials like cellular phones, computers and refrigerators would have to sign an MOU …
Sri Lanka is looking into incorporating nuclear power as an energy source to meet the increasing demand of energy brought up by the accelerated pace of development. Addressing the 54th sessions of the International Atomic Energy Authority in Vienna, the Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka said the …
Matara Chief Magistrate Udesh Ranatunga, on Monday (20), fined two suspects Rs. 100,000, when they were produced before him for killing a turtle and selling its eggs. The Matara police told the Magistrate that the suspects, who earned a living as fishermen, had been killing turtles for meat.
A water supply scheme to supply safe water to several areas including Alanthudawa and Minniya farmer colonies in the Kalpitiya Divisional Secretariat was commissioned by Minister Dinesh Gunawardene recently. It fulfilled a long felt need in view of a health hazard created by excessive use of agro- chemicals and synthetic …
Bio-fuel derived from biomass will be the foundation of power generation in Sri Lanka in the future, Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said. He was participating in an inspection tour of the Tokyo Cement Factory in Trincomalee recently. The Minister asserted that the power demand in the North …
Agricultural input is the main cause for pollution of water bodies. Pesticides and other agro chemical products accumulate in water and affect inland fishing. Industrial activities are also another cause, National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA) Environment Studies Division Research Officer Niroshan Wickramarachchi said. NARA Environment Studies Division …
The increase in the number of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients from the north central region of Sri Lanka has become a environmental health issue of national concern. Unlike in other countries where long-standing diabetes and hypertension are the leading causes of renal diseases, the majority of CKD patients from …
The endemic of chronic renal failure (CRF) emerged in 2002 in the farming provinces of Sri Lanka. An estimate of dietary cadmium intake was between 15 and 28 microg/kg body weight per week. The mean urinary cadmium in patients diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure was 7.6 microg/g creatinine and …
In a ceremony held on September 14, 2010, the High Commission of India handed over to the Government of Sri Lanka a project on Artificial Recharge of Ground Water Resources at the Export Processing Zone, Katunayake. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Manish, the Commercial Counsellor, High Commission of India, …
The 489 families displaced by the construction of the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power project have now been accommodated in six settlements in housing units based on the floor areas occupied by them previously, the National Development Media Centre said yesterday. At the time they were dislocated many of them were …
Water Supply and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and German Ambassador Jens Ploetner will open two water supply schemes built at Galagoda and Hikkaduwa on September 5 at 9.30 am. These are two sub projects come under the main project which cost Rs 4,896 million. The German Government provides 25.2 million …
The number of persons who died from Rat Fever (Leptospirosis) up to August 27 is 51 a significant drop from Rat Fever deaths in 2009 (145) and 2008 (207). "There are 2,442 cases of Rat Fever reported so far that is important is to seek treatment at a Government Hospital …
Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa has appointed a committee headed by Deputy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya to examine measures to curb human elephant conflict and its report would be handed over to the Economic Development Minister in two weeks time, Deputy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said to the Daily News yesterday. The …
