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 …
Supermarkets in Sri Lanka pitch in to eradicate plastic menace supermarkets in Sri Lanka have come together to discourage the use of plastic shopping bags. As part of a three-phase environmental campaign, they have joined hands with the Central Environmental Authority (cea) and introduced eco-friendly shopping bags, mostly made of …
energy-starved Sri Lanka has levied a tax on incandescent bulbs of over 40 watts and soon plans to ban the import and manufacture of bulbs of 75 watts and above. The target is to completely ban the se bulb by 2010. Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (sea) hopes the move …
The Power and Energy Ministry will conduct a workshop, at the Heritance, Kandalama, on bio fuels to impart training on the production of bio fuels. Power and Energy Ministry sources said that the objective of organizing the training program on the production of bio fuels was to impart training to …
A new programme Nildiyawara was launched to dredge sand deposited in fisheries harbours at the Fisheries Harbour in Negombo on Thursday (28), the Fisheries Ministry said. Minister Felix Perera also opened a fishing net mending centre at the fisheries harbour. The cost of the entire project was 200 million rupees. …
The resettlement of Internally Displaced People and a Mine Free Sri Lanka by 2009 is our vision for the country, Japanese Ambassador Kiyoshi Araki said yesterday. He was speaking at a press briefing at the Japanese Embassy after signing an agreement to fund humanitarian de mining activities in the North …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for greater social equality as a way of evening out differences in health, both between different countries and within them. A report, drawn up by the WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, says that although a country's wealth is an important …
Sri Lanka Health Ministry said the amount of money it spends on HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns has increased by 20 percent last year when compared to the amount spent in 2006. Health Ministry reported that it has spent 1.44 millions rupees on AIDS prevention programs last year and more island wide …
Bio gas is the answer for three major problems: environment management, energy management and agri system management, President of the Lanka Biogas Assosiation, Professor Ajith de Alwis, said at the launch of Biogas Association yesterday. Sri Lanka must try to promote bio gas as a technology. Though in the past …
The food and energy crisis are two sides of the same coin, " said Sustainable Energy Authority Executive Director Asoka Abeygunawardena, when he launched the booklet titled
Rs. 1 billion drinking water supply scheme, benefiting about 50,000 people in the Hambantota District affected by drought for 8 months of the year, built by UNICEF will be declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and UNICEF Resident Representative in Sri Lanka Philippe Duamelle on Friday (29). Minister of Water …
The incidence of asthma and kidney disease in the North-Central province are reported to have increased and medical experts are of the view that vehicular emissions, including gaseous substances and particulate matters such as cadmium, ferrous, copper vanadium and led accumulated in the atmosphere are to blame. These substances are …
Sri Lanka's biggest garbage mountain, growing in height day by day, at Bloemendhal Road, Colombo 13 has become a menace. It could explode if fire spreads to the methane gas emanating from the lower levels of the dump, the Colombo Municipal Council Public Health Department warned yesterday. A recent fire …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed to launch a programme to encourage the use of carbonic fertiliser in place of the chemical and ensure that 1/3 of the fertiliser subsidy consists of carbonic fertilizer at a following a discussion with the Presidential Task Force manning the Api Wawamu, Rata Nagamu food …
Over 30,000 children under the age of 14 years are employed in shops, boutiques and majority secretly employed in the domestic sector. Apart from that sexual exploitation of children by local and foreign tourists is also found to be on the rise. Labour Commissioner Ms. Pearl Weerasinghe told The Island …
Sri Lanka is preparing to implement a national policy on appropriation of land in the country. The Deputy Director of Planning of Land Policies at the Ministry of Land and Land Development, D.A. Jayananda says unsystematic land utilization has created many environmental problems in Sri Lanka and reduced the productivity …
Gama Neguma is a most valuable development programme that helps to establish a well developed village providing more facilities to people in rural areas. Therefore every official must give priority for the success of this programme said Wasantha Gunaratne, Divisional Secretary, Pitabeddara. He was speaking at the meeting of Divisional …
On the direction of President Mahinda Rajapaksa a committee was appointed under the chairmanship of Minister of Urban and Sacred Area Development Dinesh Gunawardena mainly to carry out maintenance work especially on the roads, clearing up the unauthorized constructions and beautification of roundabouts and parks in the city. The SAARC …
Water Supply And Water Drainage Board of Sri Lanka has decided to impose the Value Added Tax (VAT) to water bills with fewer than 25 units. Additional General Manager of the Water Board said the 15% VAT will be applied to water bills with fewer than 25 units, effective from …
Water Supply And Water Drainage Board of Sri Lanka has decided to impose the Value Added Tax (VAT) to water bills with fewer than 25 units. Additional General Manager of the Water Board said the 15% VAT will be applied to water bills with fewer than 25 units, effective from …
Sri Lanka is on the verge of facing ecologically harmful acid rains. Prof. O.A. Illeperuma of the University of Peradeniya said as indicated by the recent environmental studies carried out by environmental scientists, in Anuradhapura, Mahailuppallama and Uva areas for over many years during North-Eastern rainy seasons, Sri Lanka is …
