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 …
In a continuation of the conflict between humans and elephants, a man was killed but a child miraculously escaped unhurt when an elephant in the Kumbikkulama area of Habarana charged a group of farmers tending their land. T.D Wimalasena (47), father of two and a farmer from the Heenmoragolla area …
An international web site giving information about Kandy to tourists had this to say in its concluding paragraph "the city is ugly and its air pollution unbearable". This is a serious matter since tourism in Kandy is affected by such adverse comments and furthermore, this situation greatly endangers the health …
Sri Lanka Health Ministry has taken steps to provide fifty sets of equipment to the hospitals in the country to measure plasma levels and the thickness of blood in patients suffering from dengue hemorrhagic fever. Issuing a special press release the Ministry said that the tests carried out by using …
The Board of Investment (BOI) of Sri Lanka has granted approval to a proposal submitted by a joint private venture to set up two windmill projects in the Puttalam district, Assistant Manager (Media) BOI, Mr. Dudley Perera said. This will be the first ever windmill project in Sri Lanka that …
Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma said yesterday that there had been an attempt to assassinate President Mahinda Rajapaksa when he visited Matara to take part in the opening ceremony of Matara Mahanama Bridge on December 26, 2007. Speaking at the Coordinating Committee meeting of Matara District, the Minister said that the …
The Board of Investment has approved the setting up of the first ever commercial windmills in the island, to be built in the Puttalam District. Director of the Government Information Department Anusha Palpita speaking to Daily Mirror online said that the project which will build two windmills, is the first …
Sri Lanka parliament today approved a supplementary budget of Rs. 2.4 billion for several electricity projects and the constructions of the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant. Most of the funds of this supplementary budget will be allocated for the electricity projects to be implemented in Sri Lanka's North under the "Uthuru …
Sri Lanka government has decided to pay compensation for houses damaged by the recent floods in the Kalutara and Ratnapura districts. The Ministry of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services said that nearly 60 houses in these two districts have been damaged by the floods. The Ministry has already called for …
Cure from Cuba: Two Cuban epidemiologists arrived in Sri Lanka to help the government combat a dengue epidemic. Cuba has been controlling dengue with Bacillus Thuringensis Israelensis bacteria that kills the larvae of the mosquitoes that spread dengue. The epidemiologists will help set up a framework to control mosquito breeding …
A forum consisting of Scientists has been appointed to diagnose diseases affecting coconut cultivation in the country and recommend remedial measures with special focus on a disease affecting coconut palms in the South, the Plantation Industries Ministry said. This forum was appointed at a special discussion presided over by the …
The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday said that it had completed a Forest Resources Management Project aimed at establishing and operating sustainable forest management for forest protection and conservation in Sri Lanka. The project which commenced in 2001 was implemented in 18 districts other than areas in the …
The government has allocated 35,000 acres of land in the Trincomalee District for Banana cultivation to a private company, while the people in the area don
With the reclaiming of one third of land and increasing its fishing zone by two thirds from the war torn North and East, Sri Lanka would be agriculturally one of the wealthiest nations by 2015, Trade, Co- Operative and Consumer Affairs Minister Bandula Gunawardena said during his Wednesday
Only 45 per cent of the youth in Sri Lanka are aware of the destructive nature of climate change, said British Council, Sri Lanka Country Director Gill Westaway on Tuesday, at a panel discussion titled `Youth in Sri Lanka and Climate Change. Nearly all the people who were aware about …
World Bank will provide 40,000 US dollar as grant to each of the 20 selected civil society organisations of South Asian countries to address the issue of improving infant and child nutrition. Twenty organizations, which will receive the fund, will be selected from 60 finalists -- 20 from India, 11 …
Figures released by the Epidemiology Unit of Sri Lanka's Health Ministry shows that the dengue and the Influenza A H1N1 cases are steadily rising despite extensive measures to contain the diseases. According to the Epidemiology Unit, two new H1N1 cases have been reported yesterday bringing the total of H1N1 infected …
A forest fire broke out yesterday at the Knuckles Forest Reserve in the hill country of Sri Lanka. Ududumbara police said the fire which started last night due to dry weather in the forest range is spreading. The police and the Forestry Department has taken measures to douse the fire, …
This report traces the causes of poverty in Sri Lanka and provides policy recommendations, especially for areas of conflict. It argues that agriculture suffers from low productivity and competitiveness. This report traces the causes of poverty in Sri Lanka and provides policy recommendations, especially for areas of conflict. It argues …
More studies needed on pralidoxime, a drug used to treat pesticide poisoning a team of two drugs is prescribed by who to combat organophosphorous pesticide poisoning. The most widely used class of pesticides, it causes about 200,000 deaths each year, globally. Now, one of the two drugs has come under …
