Fire destroys 35 acres of forest land
Around 35 acres of forest was destroyed on Saturday in a fire that erupted in the protected areas of the Castlereagh reservoir and Devon Falls. Police suspect that the fire has been deliberately caused
Daily News (Sri Lanka)
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Food prices trump trade talks
The Doha round of global trade negotiations has been stalled since 2001 because developing nations have refused to lower import tariffs that protect their farmers and rich countries won't give up farm-price supports. Now, import duties are being slashed from Brazil to Burkina Faso in response to prices that the World Bank says have risen 83 per cent the past three years; subsidies in the US and Europe are falling.
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Rs. 30,000 for rural road
Measures are being taken by the Ambagamuwa Divisional Secretariat to reconstruct the Galamuduna Deniyahena road in the Ambagamuwa (Ginigathena) DS division in the Nuwara Eliya district.
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100,000 MT of rice from Myanmar
The Myanmar Government has agreed to provide 100,000 MTs of Rangoon Kekulu with immediate effect to overcome the current increase in the rice of price in the local market artificially created by hoarding. The decision was taken during the visit made by Trade, Marketing Development, Cooperative and Consumer Affairs Minister Bandula Gunawardena to Myanmar last week. Minister Gunawardana told the Daily News that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was directly involved to the matter through discussions with the Myanmar Government.
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Elephant menace for village off Galneva
Cliche is a feature of bad journalism, it is said, but when it comes to the reporting of stories about country folk living in the human habitats close to the natural habitats of wild creatures in rural Sri Lanka pouring out their troubles to the media over the infiltration of wild elephants or other smaller wild animals into their territories, a local reporter's poor vocabulary is not enough to compile reports again and again on the same monotonous themes sans a cliche-ridden style.
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UNP should present solutions to arrest rising food prices - Minister
UNP as a democratic party should prescribe solutions to arrest rising prices of essential commodities, said Deputy Finance and State Revenue Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya. Minister Siyambalapitiya was speaking at the opening of Lankaputhra Development Bank's Kandy branch. Prices of imported food items have doubled and the oil prices have been increased by 400 per cent. Though we conducted protest campaigns such as Pada Yathra, Jana Ghosha, etc, where we were in the Opposition, we never indulged in such acts as damaging the Kitchen utensils.
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Seven pc rise in Maha harvest
The paddy harvest of this year's Maha season has shown a seven per cent increase compared with that of the previous Maha season. The chief reason for the record yield is attributed to the move by the Government to cultivate a large number of paddy lands hitherto abandoned, under the Government's national food production drive Api Wawamu Rata Nagamu, Agriculture Development and Agrarian Services Ministry Additional Secretary S.M.A.L. Gunathilaka said.
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Underweight child births on the rise
: Surveys reveal that malnutrition and underweight childbirths are increasing in rural areas chiefly due to underage marriage of girls, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said. He said Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva revealed these findings recently and according to the findings most rural women get married early and have children as soon as they get married.