The Centre for Environmental and Nature Studies, (CENS) is calling on the government to ban the use of plastics in Sri Pada. Also known as Adam’s Peak, Sri Pada is considered a sacred site by Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and...
Bitter infighting and family rivalries have seen cricketing contests taking place at Hulftsdorp instead of at Maitland Place. Millions of rupees that should have been invested in unearthing the next Jayasuriya or Murali have been wasted on legal battles. Now,...
A committee comprising of experts from the education, health and other relevant fields is to be appointed to prepare the framework to be followed when putting together supplementary books on sexual and reproductive health for students.
The committee which is...
The emerging environment in the country does not bode well, especially for media practitioners, warned several of the speakers on Tuesday, January 28th. They were speaking at an event organized by the Free Media Movement, along with several other...
The guns and live ammunition given out to Civil Defence Force personnel in a bid to resolve the Human-Elephant conflict are to be withdrawn.
This follows a meeting that took place today, January 22, between Pahiyangala Ananda Sagara Thero, the...
A seven member committee appointed by the Minister for Higher Education Bandula Gunawardena, is expected to make recommendations on bringing back the many victims of ragging who have given up their university education.
The committee is expected to provide recommendations...
The Office on Missing Persons (OMP), in a media communique released on January 15, says that it has requested the government to hold wide ranging consultations with the OMP, the families of the missing and the disappeared as well...
Wildlife conservationists are up in arms over the decision by the Minister for Environment and Wildlife Resources, S M Chandrasena to recruit 2500 civil defence personnel and arm them, as a solution to the human-elephant conflict.
According to available reports,...
The Chief Sanghanayake of the Western Province, the Ven. Dr. Akuratiye Nanda Thera, has no objection to the Hathe Ape Potha, a guide to Grade Seven students on sexual and reproductive health.
The Chief Sanghanayake, who is also the Chancellor...
The fourth Session of the Eighth Parliament is scheduled to be ceremonially opened at 10 am today, January 3, by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. That will be followed by the delivery of the government's policy statement, which is traditionally known...
The incumbent government seems determined to undo what its predecessor did. It has disbanded the FCID (Financial Crimes Investigation Division) of the Police and upended the CID, which now has a new team at the helm. It has also...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has launched a pioneering initiative named “Global Action Fall Army Worm Control”, that aims to mobilize US$ 500mn over 2020 to 2022 to fight Sena caterpillar (Fall Army Worm) at...
