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Japan has provided a JPY 200 mn grant to boost north-east fisheries infrastructure, and JPY 160 mn of a doppler network
ADB representatives met government officials to discuss water supply sector reform program
The campaign included a series of competitions and challenges for school and university students to discuss and innovate
Science is learning more and more about how these astonishing animals came to exist in the first place
China's move comes after US funding cut for climate change, Indian Adani's withdrawal
Sri Lanka gets $1.1mn to establish framework for comprehensive plastic waste management in 7 local authorities
Why do whales get hit by ships? Why does ship strike happen?
The decision by the Danish government to incinerate the remains of millions of Mink who were slaughtered and buried afte...
Roman Catholic leader Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith is calling on the government to enact tougher laws to protect the forests...
Heavy rains and strong winds are battering Sri Lanka’s Eastern and Central areas causing floods and landslides, the co...
Is Sri Lanka the world capital for sperm whales in terms of super-pod frequency, density and viewability?
Cyclone Burevi had killed two, destroyed 99 houses, damaged 3,496 house and over 95,000 were affected with Jaffna bearin...
Cyclone Burevi was off the coast of Mannar and moving towards the South Indian coast around 6 pm tonight but has left qu...
Cyclone Burevi has affected some twelve thousand people from over three thousand families mostly in the North and East o...
The cyclone Burevi was over the northern peninsula this morning and the Meteorological Department says its effects will ...
Cyclone Burevi has crossed Sri Lanka's North-East Coast between Kuchchaveli and Thiriyayi between 2230 and 2330 hours on...
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Officials have begun moving people in coastal communities to safer ground, alerting search and rescue teams and preparin...
The government is warning residents of the Northern and Eastern areas of the country to take extra precautions as Cyclon...
Cyclonic storm Burevi is moving closer to Sri Lanka and is likely to reach Sri Lanka's Eastern and North-eastern coast o...
The Meteorological Department is issuing a warning that bad weather will prevail over the next 48 hours in the seas off ...
The Parliamentary Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) has ordered the removal of unauthorised constructions on both s...
Sri Lanka's fishermen in the Northern and Eastern seas have been asked to come ashore as 100 kilometres per hour wind ar...
Why is Sri Lanka such a great place to view blues whales? Beneath shallow waters outward from Sri Lankan shores lies con...
Standard Chartered Bank said its funding the upgrade of a state-hospital in Sri Lanka and small and medium enterprises w...
Environmentalists, Conservationists and the political opposition are strenuously objecting to the decision by the govern...
Sri Lanka’s wildlife authorities have found the carcasses of stillborn elephant twins in north-central Sri Lanka month...
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