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 …
After several tsunami events with disastrous consequences around the world, coastal countries have realized the need to be prepared to minimize human mortality and damage to coastal infrastructures, livelihoods and resources. The international scientific community is striving to develop and validate methodologies for tsunami hazard and vulnerability and risk assessments. …
India ranks a lowly 143rd on a global peace index, lagging way behind the likes of Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with Iceland emerging as the most peaceful nation in the world. According to the non-profit Institute for Economics and Peace, Iceland, the thinly-populated island in the midst of …
A recent survey conducted by the Ministry of Health has found that Tuberculosis (TB) is fast spreading among prison inmates and estate workers. Lack of sunlight and proper ventilation in houses on plantations and overcrowded prison cells have been identified as the main causes of the rapid spread of the …
Over 50 percent of Pakistan''s population is living below the poverty line, a World Bank report titled "World Development Indicators (WDI) 2015" maintains. The international poverty line is two dollars a day or an income of about Rs 205 per day in local currency. The report shows that 12.7 percent …
Local agrochemical company will be prohibited from importing herbicide glyphosate with effect from June 11. A special gazette notification signed by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayaka was issued on June 11 to that effect. Describing the ban as a victory for the people, Kidney Disease Research Scientist Dr. Channa Jayasumana told …
The Colombo District reports the largest number of dengue cases this year and the situation is similar to the past few years, Epidemiology Unit sources said. According to sources, the Colombo District and the Western Province has reported the largest number of dengue cases this year. Out of the 15,171 …
COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sri Lanka's new mangrove protection scheme, the world's first country-wide initiative, is relying on women like Michel Priyadarshani, head of a fisherwomen's group in eastern Ambantotam village. Priyadarshani and her colleagues did not understand the importance of mangroves for the ecosystem, including the fish population, …
The Health and Indigenous Medicine Ministry will soon introduce a special red label on bottled drinks which have an excessive sugar content. Manufacturers and importers should display the red label if the sugar content of the drink is over 10 grams per 100 millilitres, Health Services Director General Dr. Palitha …
The Sri Lankan government has taken steps to establish a National Renal Disease Fund under the Presidential Secretariat as proposed in the 2015 budget. Already a committee and sub committees under it have been appointed to monitor the prevailing renal disease activities to deal with the widely spreading renal disease. …
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Health has designated the month of June every year as the National Nutrition Month to promote better nutrition among the population. Programs planned during the National Nutrition Month is aim to instill a change in the attitude of the people towards nutrition to upgrade their nutritional …
The export of Glyphosate will be banned in Sri Lanka from the next cultivation season, Agriculture Minister Duminda Dissanayake said. He said the banning of exporting glyphosate will not affect tea cultivation. "The government has also taken a decision to import glyphosate only through the Petroleum Corporation without giving permission …
Sri Lanka's President Maithreepala Sirisena says the conservation of the national forests and protecting the environment are among the government's foremost challenges and therefore among the top priorities of the government. Speaking during a function held today at the President Secretariat, the President said the present government has been able …
Sri Lanka police on Sunday (24) used water cannons to disperse a group of people protesting the presence of a massive garbage dump in their neighborhood in a suburb of Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Residents in the Meethotamulla area of Kolonnawa held a protest in front of the dump site, …
ISLAMABAD: Global Climate Risk Index-2015 said that five out of top 10 countries most affected by climate change-induced disasters during 1994-2013 are located in Asia Pacific. Climate Change Minister Mushahidullah Khan said that in UN’s recent report “Economic Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific” almost all Asia-Pacific countries - …
More than half the world’s mangroves have been lost over the last century but all of those surviving in Sri Lanka, one of their most important havens, are now to be protected in an unprecedented operation. The organiser of the project, the biggest of its kind, see the role of …
A report prepared on an investigation into the alleged deforestation of Sri Lanka's famous Wilpattu National Park has been handed in to Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday. Secretary to the Ministry of Irrigation, Mahaweli and Environment Nihal Rupasinghe said that the report relating to the special investigation on …
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered to immediately stop deforestation and land reserving around Wilpattu National Park in Northern Province. Effective immediately, it has been prohibited to clear the surrounding area and land reserving of Wilpattu National Park and Vavuniya, Mannar under a special decree by the President, President's …
CIMA Sri Lanka last week officially announced the organisation’s participation in Rotary Lanka's flagship initiative, ‘One Million Tree Stories Project’. One million trees will be planted through this project which aims at helping Sri Lanka grow back its forests to support future generations. Gowri Rajan, District Governor of Rotary District …
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has decided to immediately intervene into the matter of hazardous waste dumping by a factory in Bingiriya, CEA Chairman Prof. Lal Mervin Dharmasiri told the Daily News yesterday. He said he would make a field visit accompanied by a CEA team of experts to look …
The heavy rains experienced during the weekend caused floods in Colombo, Kalutara and Galle Districts while inundating many roads. Disaster Management Centre Deputy Director (Media) Sarath Lal Kumara said 2,660 people belonging to 743 families in Balapitiya, Gonapeenuwela, Akmeemana, Kadawathsathara and Baddegama in the Galle district had been affected by …
