Today's News - Sri Lanka

Dialog to shut down 3G network to free up spectrum for 4G

dailymirror.lk Dialog Axiata PLC today announced plans to shut down its 3G data network in 2023 to free up spectrum and increase the capacity of its 4G Broadband network. News...

ADB grants cash allowance for ‘Maha Season’ paddy farmers

dailynews.lk At the request of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, measures are underway to provide a non-refundable financial assistance of up to Rs.20,000 to the farmers who are cultivating paddy for the...

Weather alert: Monsoon condition gradually establishing over island

ceylontoday.lk – Aloka Ksturiarachchi The Northeast monsoon condition is gradually establishing over the island, says the Department of Meteorology. Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in the Western,...

Cold weather leaves over 1,600 livestock dead in N/E

dailynews.lk – The number of livestock deaths due to the cold weather that affected the Northern and Eastern Provinces increased to 1,660 by 12.00 noon yesterday (12). The Livestock Division...

Eight institutions under Agriculture Ministry to be merged

Buddhika Imbulana – dailynews.lk Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has decided to merge eight institutions under the Ministry of Agriculture into four institutions next year. Minister Amaraweera says that this step...

Delhi air quality remains ‘very poor’ at 337 AQI

island.lk CAQM lifted the ban from the construction activities which was followed by the transport department revoking the ban on the transport activities. ANI: The air quality in the national...

Were Climate change and air pollution the cause?<br>Peradeniya scientists to probe 700 animal deaths in North and East

Were Climate change and air pollution the cause?
Peradeniya scientists to probe 700 animal deaths in North and East

sundayobserver.lk – BY CHAMIKARA WEERASINGHE A group of Peradeniya University scientists travelled to the North and the East yesterday to ascertain whether climate change-induced temperature shifts and air pollution were...

World population to reach 8 Bn tomorrow (15), says UN Report

island.lk The report says more than half the projected increase in population up to 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries.The United Nations has estimated that the world’s population...

National average rice yield hits nearly 50-year-low in Maha season amid fertiliser ban

dailymirror.lk Sri Lanka’s national average rice yield hit a nearly 50-year-low last ‘Maha’ season largely driven by the ill-conceived import ban on chemical fertiliser and agrochemicals. Its aftereffects combined with...

Who’s pocketing the compensation from X-Press Pearl accident?

dailymirror.lk It has been a year and five months since the vessel X-Press Pearl caught fire and sank. What the islanders are left with is the massive ocean and coastal...