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 Sydney-based Australian solar panels manufacturer, Energy Puzzle Group will invest US$ 190 million to set up a state-of-the-art factory in Sri Lanka to manufacture solar panels. Sri Lanka's investment promotion agency, the Board of Investment (BoI) said the Energy Puzzle Group will set up its plant in the BOI's …
The North Central Water Supply and Drainage Board has embarked on a four-fold drinking water supply program in the province where chronic kidney diseases are spreading. Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has allocated Rs.1,000 million, on the instruction of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, for the water supply program. Chief Engineer in charge of …
Ambassador for Japan in Sri Lanka Nobuhito Hobo recently signed an aid agreement with programme unit chief & Acting Director Civic Force, Megumi Kuwana, for disaster management in Sri Lanka. The aid package amounts to US $. 291,005 ( Rs. 37. Million). The ambassador said the ‘Capacity Building Project on …
Parliament yesterday unanimously approved three regulations pertaining to printing pictorial warnings on packets of cigarettes. These regulations were presented under the provisions of the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act by the Government on January 24, 2012. According to the regulations the pictorial warnings should be printed on "the …
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena told Parliament yesterday that smoking killed about 20,000 persons a year in Sri Lanka. Minister Sirisena commencing the second reading debate on three regulations under National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act on pictorial warnings on cigarette packets said that over 100 countries in the world …
Sri Lanka's parliament Wednesday unanimously passed three regulations under the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act to discourage the smoking and alcohol use in the country. Under the Act of pictorial warnings cigarette packs must have graphic warnings that cover 80 percent of the display area. Minister of Health …
Malaria is one of the most important tropical diseases that has caused devastation throughout the history of mankind. Malaria eradication programmes in the past have had many positive effects but failed to wipe out malaria from most tropical countries, including Sri Lanka. Encouraged by the impressive levels of reduction in …
Insufficient Northeastern monsoonal rains had resulted in the paddy crop in the five districts of the Northern Province falling below targeted production during the 2013/14 Maha cultivation, Northern Province Director of Agriculture S. Sivakumar said. He said that it had been planned to cultivate 236,303 acres with paddy during the …
More than 14,000 Sri Lankans died of oral, esophagus, stomach, cervical and breast cancers in 2013. Major hospitals, besides the Maharagama Cancer Institute, treated 25,842 cancer patients in 2013, according to Health Ministry media spokesman W. M. D. Wanninayaka. He said Maharagama alone had recorded about 5,000 deaths due to …
The Pakistan government through its High Commission in Colombo has funded the construction of two clean drinking water supply projects for villagers in Kodapokuna in the Polonnaruwa district. The Pakistan High Commissioner Major General (r) Qasim Qureshi visited the beneficiary communities and handed over the projects on January 31 in …
The government of Pakistan through its High Commission in Colombo has funded the construction of two clean drinking water supply projects for the vulnerable communities in Kodapokuna village of Polonnaruwa District in Northern Central Province of Sri Lanka. The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Major General (retd) Qasim …
Four thousand HIV infections in a population of 20 million should not be a difficult figure to manage. But experts in Sri Lanka say social customs and strict laws are hindering them from carrying out prevention and awareness campaigns among high-risk groups. Despite impressively low national infection rates, there are …
The Union Assurance in collaboration with the Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council, has taken an initiative to educate children about the risk factors of dengue. According to that DenGone, a multimedia educational video game highlighting the importance of the prevention of dengue targeting school children as well …
The Water Supply and Drainage Ministry has launched a project to utilize the sewage in the Jaffna Municipal area for agricultural purposes, Water Supply and Drainage Ministry Secretary Amarananda Abegunasekera said. This will be implemented as a part of the Jaffna Water Supply Project, he said. The secretary said it …
Sri Lanka had the lowest maternity mortality rate in South Asia, Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said last week. Quoting a maternity mortality report compiled by emergency, obstetrics and Neo-natal units at its hand over to him at the Colombo Hilton, he pointed out that the comprehensive study revealed that Sri …
Kandy will have Sri Lanka's biggest waste management project costing Rs. 22,000 million under a program jointly implemented by the Kandy Municipal Council and the National Water Supply and Drainage Board.The project funded by Japan and the Sri Lankan government will be located at Gannoruwa, Kandy Mayor Mahen Ratwatte said. …
The Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project is more meaningful in terms of environment as well as social concerns, JICA Sri Lanka Chief Representative Harumi Ao said at a seminar on Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project. The Institution of Engineers focused their attention on the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project (UKHP) …
It is essential to introduce genetically high-bred seed paddy that ensures higher crop harvest among the Galle district paddy farmers and if not they would discontinue paddy cultivation, Galle Deputy Agriculture Director Senani de Silva said. He was making a presentation on the contemporary issues on the district’s paddy cultivation …
All the major reservoirs in the Nuwara Eliya District including Mousakelle, Castlereigh, Upper Kotmale and others have been severely affected due to the drought experienced for the past several weeks. in addition all vegetation including tea cultivations too have been affected. In the Maskeliya area the old dams, the ancient …
Authorities at the Department of Motor Traffic in Sri Lanka plan to conduct vehicle emission tests on motor vehicles twice year from the current once a year schedule. Motor Traffic Commissioner S.H. Harishchandra told the media that the new system will come into effect from March this year under a …
