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 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated $15 million (Rs 1.7 billion) worth of vital food aid for Sri Lanka to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The food, consisting of wheat, lentils and vegetable oil, will be distributed to a large number of displaced and conflict-affected …
Under the instructions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Highways and Road Development Minister T. B. Ekanayake had taken steps to speed up the completion of Colombo- Katunayake Highway. Highways and Road Development Ministry Media Secretary Shirantha Premawardena told The Island yesterday, plans were afoot to complete the project within 39 months. …
A special programme to control dengue will be carried out islandwide this month as during the month as the Health Ministry hopes to control the possibility of another outbreak with the onset of South West monsoon in May and June. Deputy Director General of Public Health Dr. Palitha Mahipala said …
The CEB has restored electricity supply along the Mankulam road covering a distance of 35 km from Omana to Mankulam under the Power and Energy Ministry
The Re-awakening Project has taken steps to rehabilitate the Karavahu Drainage Scheme in Kalmunai to prevent frequent floods in the Kalmunai area during the rainy season. The World Bank has granted Rs.1,038 million to implement this project, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009, Project Director …
The Hakmana Pradeshiya Sabha has taken measures to develop 31 rural roads in the Hakmana area under the "Maga Neguma" development project. The Ministry of Road Development has voted Rs. 20.5 million for this project. Out of the total amount of the allocations Rs. 10.5 million would be utilised for …
According to the year 2000 statistics there have been only 21 widows hit this amount has now increased more than ten folds, said Suneeka Perera addressing the journalists in Hambantota district at Chandrika Hotel Tissamaharama. It was organised by the Hambantota branch of CARE International. She said that the ten …
People in the Western Province are duty bound to give a proper and strong answer to foreign forces and local conspirators trying to give oxygen to the terrorists who are breathing their last in the face of advancing Security Forces, Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said. …
The Hakmana Pradeshiya Sabha has taken measures to develop 31 rural roads in the Hakmana area under the "Maga Neguma" development project. The Ministry of Road Development has voted Rs. 20.5 million for this project. Out of the total amount of the allocations Rs. 10.5 million would be utilised for …
The garbage problem that affected the Colombo city for the past few days has now been addressed by the Colombo Municipal Council as a new dumping site at Peliyagoda was found, Municipal Commissioner, Colombo, Bhadrani Jayawardena told the Daily News yesterday. She said the authorities including Chief Justice Sarath N.Silva, …
People in the Western Province are duty bound to give a proper and strong answer to foreign forces and local conspirators trying to give oxygen to the terrorists who are breathing their last in the face of advancing Security Forces, Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said. …
The irrigation re-awakening project with the World Bank assistance of Rs.385 million has taken initiatives to rehabilitate Giants Tank, one of the major irrigation tanks in the Mannar district, Project Director P.H. Sugathadasa said at a progress review meeting at the site last week. He said this tank has a …
Sri Lanka government has taken measures to provide power supply to every village in the North under a program called 'Uthuru Wasanthaya' (Northern Spring). Issuing a press release Power and Energy Ministry said they would first reconstruct all the transformers, power cable systems, and electricity sub-stations destroyed by the LTTE. …
A top University Professor in Sri Lanka says that twenty percent of school attended students in the country cannot write or sign. Prof. Ratnasiri Arangala of the Sri Jayewardenepura University said that this is due to the lack of proper guidance. Speaking at a group of entrepreneurs in Colombo, the …
A special programme to control dengue will be carried out islandwide this month as during the month as the Health Ministry hopes to control the possibility of another outbreak with the onset of South West monsoon in May and June. Deputy Director General of Public Health Dr. Palitha Mahipala said …
The World Heath Organisation (WHO) completing their investigation on the death of a child due to rubella vaccination has recommended that the vaccinations should be done under the supervision of qualified doctors. The three-member WHO team which came on the invitation of Health Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva to investigate …
Five towers to give prior warning of a tsunami will be installed along the seacoast in the Kalutara district by the Distress Management Unit. These towers will be located at Wadduwa, Katukurunda, Beruwala Abinaramaya Temple, and Maggona St. Mary
The Sri Lanka Supreme Court yesterday proposed two alternative sites, one at Mahara and another belonging to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority to dump accumulated garbage in Colombo. The judges made the proposal when a fundamental rights petition alleging that accumulation of garbage at the Kotahena dumping site without a …
Safe water will be made available to 58,500 people in the Polonnaruwa district by the Polonnaruwa Water Supply Scheme under the Township Infrastructure Development Project in 2011. The project is funded by the Asian Development bank, (ADB) through the Government on the Secondary Towns and Rural Community based Water Supply …
Colombo city is the Tuberculosis (TB) breeding and distributing centre. Every year, 350 persons die from TB in Sri Lanka and 50 are from the Colombo city. Twenty percent of TB patients in Sri Lanka are from Colombo and 80 percent from all the other parts of the country, Healthcare …
