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 …
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 …
A Sri Lankan court today issued an injunction on public agitations against the Hayleys Group rubber glove manufacturer in Weliweriya. The Acting Magistrate of Gampaha issued an injunction against meetings of more than five people and chaotic behavior in Weliweriya and Malwathuhiripitiya areas. The injunction was issued on the request …
Sixteen fishing boats had gone missing and another 42 damaged in Jaffna and Mullaithivu seas last morning due to the impact of cyclone Phailin, Disaster Management Centre Deputy Director (Media) Sarath Lal Kumara said. He said the Navy launched search operations for the missing fishing boats. Kumara said another 19 …
The Kamburupitiya Pradeshiya Sabha has implemented an accelerated road improvement project. Kamburupitiya Pradeshiya Sabha chairman Chandana Siribaddana said the proposed project includes the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Kamburupitiya-Miriswatta-Dodamanwila-Leewarahena road, Kamburupitiya-Magammana road, Kahagala South -Wathegewatha road, Eriyatota-Sapugadeniya road,Godawa-Pohamulla road and Karagodauyangoda-Narangalgoda road. Concreting and carpeting will be carried out under the …
Patients with kidney disease have been reported from Jaffna and several other areas in the country, a Health Ministry spokesman said. He said kidney disease was earlier reported only from the North Central Province and a few selected areas in the country. “A total of 4,232 kidney patients have been …
India and Sri Lanka will on Monday ink an agreement for the execution of the INR 40-billion 500 MW thermal power project at Sampur in Trincomalee, official sources said here today. India’s state-run NTPC and Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) had signed an agreement in 2011 to set up a coal-based …
The fifth phase of Sri Lanka's domestic agriculture program "Divi Neguma" will commence on October 11, the Ministry of Economic Development announced. President Mahinda Rajapaksa will preside over the tree-planting campaign which will cover 14,008 Grama Seva areas in 324 Secretarial Divisions, targeting the Maha Season, the Ministry said. Under …
All arrangements are in place to sign the Sampur Coal Power Plant agreement between the governments of Sri Lanka and India. These agreements will be signed within the next seven days, Power and Energy Ministry sources said yesterday. The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) will sign the agreement representing the Sri …
Sri Lankan government authorities within a week will finalize the agreement with India to set up a coal power plant at Sampur in the Eastern Province. Additional Secretary of the Power and Energy Ministry, Ranjith Gunawardena said the Sri Lankan and Indian parties have managed to finalize a power purchase …
There is a significant drop in the number of dengue cases this year compared to September 2012. There was a drop of around 10,000 dengue cases last month relative to September 2012, a Health Ministry spokesman said. According to the spokesman, the number of dengue cases reported last month was …
The Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council (PHD- CMC) yesterday said the city had recorded a 17 per cent increase in the number of dengue cases, as opposed to the reduction reported countrywide. Chief of the PHD CMC said that the numbers had risen drastically due to the …
A fire broke out yesterday at the Godaulpatha mountain area in the Himbiliyakada forest reserve in Wilgamuwa destroying hundreds of acres of forest area, police said.
More than 5,500 people had been affected by the prevailing drought in the Polonnaruwa District, Asst. Director of the Disaster Management Centre Upul Nanayakkara said. “Statistically 5,500 people in 14,603 families have been affected by the prevailing drought in the Polonnaruwa District,” he said. Nanayakkara said that the drought had …
Sri Lanka’s capital and bordering areas are in line for an $88 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to boost water supplies to 24 hours. The Asian Development Bank said the water-system upgrades would bring seven-day around-the-clock water to the Colombo region from six to 10 hours in some …
The land rush in the last five years has raised the need to monitor and build country case studies on global land grabs to expose the nature of the phenomenon. This compilation of seven case studies from Indonesia (two cases); Sri Lanka (two cases); Pakistan; the Philippines; and Malaysia provides …
A new climate change mitigation project to promote sustainable biomass energy production and modern bio-energy technologies commenced in Sri Lanka . Read more in this first Monthly Sri Lanka State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. September 2013 Edition is out! Download, Read and Share. …
A new climate change mitigation project to promote sustainable biomass energy production and modern bio-energy technologies in Sri Lanka commenced with an inception workshop on September 17, 2013. The project is aimed at supporting Sri Lankan industries to meet energy needs from locally sourced fuel wood derived through sustainable practices, …
Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena ordered the private company who supplied low quality soya bean seeds to pay compensations to farmers who lost their harvest. The soya bean farming community in the Galenbindunuwewa area urged the government to provide immediate relief for them over the loss of cultivation due to …
Sri Lanka Minister of Technology Research and Atomic Energy Champika Ranawaka said that the Atomic Energy Act would be amended. Addressing the 57th session of the International Atomic Energy Agency held in Vienna, Austria, the Minister said that the 43 year old Act would be amended to meet the current …
The Seismic Data and Tsunami Alert Centre (SDTAC) of Sri Lanka Geological Survey and Mines Bureau said that a tremor measuring 2.8 at Richter scale was reported from Lunugala area in Badulla in the Uva Province today. The tremor occurred at 3.08 p.m. local time and the residents say that …
