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 …
Representatives from 20 cities from across South Asia will come together in Kochi on Wednesday to learn from each other on the issue of adaptation to climate change at the seminar on Asian Cities Adapt: Learning Exchange, co-organised by ICLEI South Asia and Kochi Corporation. The two-day workshop, will present …
Gem mining in Seethawaka river has been taken over by the Sri Lankan government, National Gem and Jewellery Authority (NGJA). According to Director General Janaka Udaya Kumara, this decision was taken to prevent illegal gem mining in the Thalduwa area of Seethawaka river. Read more in this October 2013 edition …
The fifth South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-V) concluded here today with the signing of the Kathmandu Declaration. Ministers and head of delegates from the eight participating nations of South Asia signed the Declaration, which includes specific points to accelerate the momentum of sanitation in the region. Addressing the closing …
The Health Ministry yesterday said they would recommence inspecting bottled water sources within the next few weeks. The spokesman for the Health Ministry said that the number of complaints received regarding the quality of bottled drinking water during the last few months had prompted the Ministry to gather all bottled …
Sri Lanka has launched a program to provide sanitation and drinking water facilities in all schools islandwide. Additionally, under the direction of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, all relevant ministries have dedicated budgets to support school sanitation activities, Water Supply and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said. The Minister was addressing the innaguration …
In a startling revelation, a report made public during the fifth South Asian Conference on Sanitation (Sacosan) on Tuesday says more than 675 million people in South Asia still practice open defecation. It shows that around half of the total 2.5 billion people without access to improved sanitation across the …
Poachers slaughter rare species of wild animals and wild birds in forest reserves secretly and the flesh of those animals is sold to tourist hotels in the vicinity. These poachers hunt jungle fowls (walikukula) too and sell a kilo of their meat at Rs. 1000/- to tourist hotels. Athik Nazeer, …
The owner of the detergents factory responsible for emitting ammonia gas which left 72 area residents in hospital on Tuesday, has agreed to shift the facility to Kalutara. Following agitations by people, he gave the assurance at a meeting he had with senior police officers, Buddhist monks and people’s representatives …
A toxic gas leak from a factory in a suburb of Sri Lankan capital prompted authorities to close the factory on Tuesday after more than 70 factory workers and residents near the factory were hospitalized following the leak. About 72 factory workers and nearby residents who complained of breathing difficulties …
The Sri Lankan government today expressed concern over a possible nuclear threat from the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu in Southern India as it went into operation for the first time. The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday said it could not rule out the possibility of a …
Forty employees of a chemical factory and 30 persons residing in the neighbourhood were admitted to hospital following a gas leak at the factory in Piliyandala early yesterday. A special police team in coordination with the Central Environment Authority commenced an investigation into the gas leak at a chemical factory …
The Narammala MOH division in the Kurunegala district recorded 119 Dengue patients this year, Narammala PHI K.M.M.I. Karunanayake said. He said of this, 90 had tested positive for Dengue. Karunanayake said steps have been taken to set up Mosquito Eradication Committees in all 54 Grama Niladhari divisions in the Narammala …
Initial investigations conducted by the Piliyandala police have revealed that ammonia gas which leaked from a factory in Piliyandala causing 72 persons to be hospitalised had been formed due to an accidental mixing of two chemicals in the wee hours of yesterday. A tense situation arose following the gas leak …
The fifth South Asian conference on sanitation started today with a focus on ways to end waste-related problems. The conference with the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) as the organiser is expected to help solve sanitation problems in the region. Inaugurating the conference, Vice-President Paramananda Jha said, “Disadvantaged groups of …
A regional human development report on Monday said the South Asian nations needed regional approach instead of going for unilateral or bilateral mechanism for transboundary water sharing. Focusing on water for human development, a panel of experts from Pakistan-based Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre in its annual report found …
Some 500 families who were long deprived of electricity in the remote villages of the Nunggaha Yaya, Gurumada Mw, Omalpe Medawathugoda, Galkandagoda, Vijeriya Udagama, Nandanagama and Ginigalgoda areas, in the Ratnapura district, benefited last week from an Iranian-funded rural electrification scheme. The project under an Iranian RE-8 loan facility was …
The fifth South Asian conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-V) has been inaugurated in Bhaktapur on Monday, with the declaration of Bhaktapur as an open-defecation free (ODF) district. President Ram Baran Yadav inaugurated the regional conference in presence of senior officials from South Asian nations. President Ram Baran Yadav receives a token …
The South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN) to be held for the first time in Nepal will begin on Tuesday with the declaration of Bhaktapur as an “open defecation free (ODF) district”. President Ram Baran Yadav will formally declare Bhaktapur as the first ODF district in Kathmandu Valley, amid an …
With an aim of avoiding a repeat of the 2004 catastrophe, India is building a tsunami early warning system in the South China Sea, which is likely to be operational in the next 10 months. China is also building a similar tsunami early warning centre in the South China Sea. …
NEARLY one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia's rising powers. Its low-lying littoral - including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra - is home to over half …
