Sri Lanka has decided to enact new legislation to control sound pollution for the first time, Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa has announced Friday.

The Government of India has agreed to provide a loan of US$ 382.37 million for the restoration of Northern Railway Service, the government announced Friday.

Sri Lanka Minister of Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka today opened the office of the Sri Lanka Energies Private Limited, a subsidiary of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) in Colombo.

The French Government has pledged Euro 22 million (Rs. 3.3 billion) of assistance to develop infrastructure of Sri Lanka.

Cairn Lanka, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cairn India, has announced that it prepares to enter the second phase of oil exploration in Sri Lanka upon the successful completion of the first phase.

Sri Lanka's health minister Maithreepala Sirisena has appointed a high-powered committee to investigate the waste disposal from the National Cancer Institute after the National Atomic Energy Author

Sri Lanka Department of Forest Conservation says that 200 elephants and 48 men were killed in the human-elephant conflicts this year.

Sri Lanka has allocated 180 million rupees to complete the renovation work of many small scale irrigation reservoirs (wevas) within this year, the Commissioner General of Agrarian Services Ravindra

The Sri Lankan government has withdrawn the Town and Country Planning (Amendment) Bill presented to the parliament.

The Anti-Arsenic Movement in Sri Lanka has commenced an awareness campaign through distributing leaflets to educate the public about the dangers of using pesticides containing arsenic.