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 …
Dengue fever is raising its ugly head in the Batticaloa district. Statistically 128 dengue positive cases were reported this year and two of the patients died. Provincial Director of Health Services Dr. M. Devarajan said the most number of patients were reported from the Batticaloa Health Officer
Privatizing power: The Sri Lankan parliament passed the controversial new electricity bill, with amendments, on March 3. The Act will curb the monopoly of the Ceylon Electricity Board (ceb) over generation, transmission and supply of electricity in the country. It was passed by 109 to 40 votes. ceb was incurring …
A simple action of turning out the lights was taken by one city in 2007. A year later it went global with 35 cities and 50 million people taking part.Today, 538 cities in 75 countries will turn out their lights for ONE HOUR
The Sapporo Cancer Seminar Foundation in collaboration with JICA has initiated an evaluation process of the school-based projects for the prevention of lifestyle related diseases in Sri Lanka. The prevention of lifestyle related diseases such cancer and cardiovascular complications has become a challenging task, owing to the difficulty that people …
Garbage is the premier problem where human civilisation has been affected, befallen or otherwise displaced from place to place like, gypsies. The problem is obviously a result of ill planned human activities in industrialisation and urbanisation. It is always difficult to bring something back into the orderly position if it …
The fruit production has decreased which may be due to weather factors or unrestricted imports is not clear. However, in the case of fruits lack of suitable commercial varieties with market preference has been a perennial problem. In both vegetable and fruits, unimproved varieties and obsolete production technologies lead to …
Every day more than 700 diarrhoea patients from different parts of the capital flock for treatment at ICDDR,B as the government is yet to take effective measures for clean water supply. About half of the patients are infants and children. The hospital sources said the number of patients is shockingly …
As fund constraint stalls a vital donor-funded $189-million project to install three gas pipelines and compressors necessary to increase the country's gas supply, the energy ministry on Tuesday decided to reduce the number of pipelines and compressors down to two. At a meeting chaired by Energy Adviser Dr Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed Environment and Natural Resources Minister Champika Ranawaka and Urban Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardena to step up action to address the country's growing garbage problem at a special meeting held at Temple Trees. The President has asked the two Ministers to take all relevant measures to …
Black women are three times more likely than other women to develop an aggressive form of breast cancer characterised by "triple negative tumours", a study published Wednesday found. The findings, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research, held true even when other risk factors such as lifestyle, …
Banners..Banners and more Banners. Just look around and that is what you see. We Sri Lankans are famous for banners. Not only in the heart of Colombo City but in the outskirts as well. True it's irritating at times but banners have become part and parcel of our daily life. …
Forty eight families in Lunawa, Moratuwa who lost their homes during the 2004 tsunami and up to now living in temporary shelters, have moved into new permanent houses built by the Red Cross. Apartments in six blocks comprising of common amenities such as water supply, electricity and roads is a …
A revolutionary change can be made in Sri Lanka by installing solar lighting in every house where there is no electricity, former Councillor, Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission in Chennai, Lakshman Jayawardena told Daily News Business. Having had work experience in India, he said that a large number of people …
The Health Ministry will resume the school Rubella Immunization Programme after a re-assessment of the programme on the recommendations of the WHO, departmental and epidemiological inquiries, Health Ministry Secretary Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage said. The school Rubella Vaccination programme was suspended on the instructions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa following the death …
The agriculture and plantations sectors in the country from the time of the coffee blight ravaged coffee plantations in the early 19th century have been affected by pests. The Mealy Bug or Piti Makuna is the latest that endangered the papaw cultivations in the country and spread to other crops. …
The Flying Squad of Ampara District Forest Conservation Office, within an hour of its inception seized three lorry loads of timber valued at over Rs.1, 000,000 each in transit with measurements different from those given in the permit. The raid was conducted by District Forest Officer in Ampara, Lalith Gamage …
Matara: The parents of the students at seven schools in Matara District today opposed the government program to vaccinate the students for tuberculosis. The Health Ministry has scheduled to carry out its vaccination programme for tuberculosis in Matara district this morning, but it has to be cancelled due to parents' …
Dengue fever is raising its ugly head in the Kandy district again. Addressing the recent District Coordinating Committee, Director of Health Services Kandy Dr. S. Gamage said several positive cases of dengue were reported from the district and three patients died of the disease. He warned that it would increase …
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources today warned the local governments that the Ministry will take over its lands that are being used to pile up garbage on a large scale if the garbage is not disposed. Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said the cabinet approval has recently …
