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 …
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 …
Labour Relations and Manpower Minister Athauda Seneviratne said they hope to start 30,000 self employment projects in Sri Lanka before the end of this year. He said their purpose of starting this project is to reduce unemployment. A session of the Micro financial credit program was held at the People's …
A bakery located in Kings Road, Trincomalee has been sealed following a report of the death of an old man and the hospitalizing of 148 others including schoolchildren after consuming buns and other bakery products. Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunaskera said Selvaraja Dhuraisingham (62) died possibly from food poisoning after …
Health authorities yesterday cautioned that there has been a sharp increase of leptospirosis (rat fever) and dengue this year and that they could develop into epidemic proportions. Government Epidemiology Unit Director Dr. Prabha Palihawadana told Daily Mirror that 37 leptospirosis deaths have been reported since January 1 this year in …
Health Department sources said that it was too early to comment whether the two patients who died after being admitted to the Tangalle Hospital and the other undergoing treatment were suffering from Dengue. Doctors were reluctant to say whether they died of Dengue or any other disease. However, reliable sources …
Dengue has claimed the lives of six while another 233 are undergoing treatment in the Southern Province hospitals of Matara and Karapitiya. From January to April, 168 Dengue patients have been admitted to the Matara hospital and three of them had died. Of the 66 patients admitted to Karapitiya hospital, …
Wild elephants infiltrating from Lunugamvehera National Park to Kataragama area is frequently resulting in human-elephant conflicts. The Lunugamvehera National Park authorities say this is due to damaged section of the electricity fence at Wilamba Wewa area where there is a conflict between the authorities and farmers over a tank a …
Wild elephants infiltrating from Lunugamvehera National Park to Kataragama area is frequently resulting in human-elephant conflicts. The Lunugamvehera National Park authorities say this is due to damaged section of the electricity fence at Wilamba Wewa area where there is a conflict between the authorities and farmers over a tank a …
Considering the inconvenience caused to the residents of the area, President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday ordered the relevant officials to stop the construction of the 7.5 km stretch of the roadway between Kirulapone and Ratmalana Maliban Junction, with immediate effect. This decision was taken by President Rajapaksa, following a special meeting …
A Cabinet Sub-Committee, which inquired into the position of lands in relation to the Land Reforms Commission (LRC), had made far-reaching recommendations including a decision to restrict the extent of land managed by Plantation Companies to 2000 hectares and a mechanism to recover a massive Rs. 10.42 billion owed by …
On December 26, 2004 Sri Lanka and a few other countries in the region faced the destructive power of nature. The tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean left about 300,000 people dead. This disaster also demonstrated the regenerative power of human compassion. Sri Lanka became just one household where …
A guide book on Sri Lankan Birds written in the Russian language and published by the Russian based JMT Travels Tour Operators was launched recently at Sri Lanka Tourism. The book was officially handed over to Mr. Bernard Goonetilleke, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) and Sri …
The government has decided to introduce community farming for the displaced people who arrive in Vavuniya from conflict areas, and a 100-acre extent of land had been earmarked for this purpose, a top official in Vavuniya said yesterday. Government Agent P.S.M. Charles said a dam would be constructed across the …
Our parents and grandparents were conservationists by instinct. All the more credit to them as fancy terms had not yet been invented - like reduce, re-use and re-cycle as recipes. Nor of Global Warming, Energy Budgets and Ozone Holes. They simply believed that it was sensible and proper that materials …
The government will get a $155 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to help improve and expand its electricity services. The work will focus mainly on electric services to the poor and those in areas of conflict, the Asian Development Bank said. The loan was approved by the board …
South Korea has offered at least 5,400 job opportunities for Sri Lankan migrant workers in 2009. A spokesman for the Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) said that Sri Lanka received at least 4,300 jobs last year. However, the spokesman said that the number of job opportunities available for foreigners in South …
The Sub Regional Workshop on Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) Phase Out in Military Applications would be a stepping stone for a wider environment military network in Sri Lanka, said former Executive Secretary National Protocol Secretariat, UNEP K. Madhava Sharma. Sharma who is also the Member of Technology and Economic Assessment …
Sri Lanka has almost eradicated malaria and no malaria deaths have been reported during last three years. It has also resulted in an unprecedented 99 per cent decrease in the reported incidence of Malaria during the last 10 years. This was revealed by Chairman of the Executive Board of the …
Once, Bibile was famous for the goodness of 'Peni Dodam,' or oranges, just as apple-like big pears for Nuwaraeliya prior to the 1978 hurricane. Would the fate of gleaming red or yellow Rambutan in Malwana be similar? Yes, probably, it could be a matter of few more years before growers …
Softly flowing through the greenery in the backdrop of the seven hills of the Kataragama landscape, the Menik Ganga had been the guardian and devotee of the sacred shrines and Gods for many centuries. Not only had it quenched the thirst of many a traveller, cleansed the bodies of many …
