A special programme to control dengue will be carried out islandwide this month as during the month as the Health Ministry hopes to control the possibility of another outbreak with the onset of South West monsoon in May and June.

A special programme to control dengue will be carried out islandwide this month as during the month as the Health Ministry hopes to control the possibility of another outbreak with the onset of South West monsoon in May and June.

Five towers to give prior warning of a tsunami will be installed along the seacoast in the Kalutara district by the Distress Management Unit.

These towers will be located at Wadduwa, Katukurunda, Beruwala Abinaramaya Temple, and Maggona St. Mary

A simple action of turning out the lights was taken by one city in 2007. A year later it went global with 35 cities and 50 million people taking part.Today, 538 cities in 75 countries will turn out their lights for ONE HOUR

The Sapporo Cancer Seminar Foundation in collaboration with JICA has initiated an evaluation process of the school-based projects for the prevention of lifestyle related diseases in Sri Lanka.

Garbage is the premier problem where human civilisation has been affected, befallen or otherwise displaced from place to place like, gypsies. The problem is obviously a result of ill planned human activities in industrialisation and urbanisation. It is always difficult to bring something back into the orderly position if it has been disordered.

The fruit production has decreased which may be due to weather factors or unrestricted imports is not clear. However, in the case of fruits lack of suitable commercial varieties with market preference has been a perennial problem.

Sri Lanka will get 85 million US dollars in loans and grants from the Asian Development Bank for water supply and sanitation in four regional urban areas, a government minister said.

Nury Vittachi (20 March 2009) should really examine the position of electric vehicles in Sri Lanka. Here, electric bicycles are quite popular, especially in the dry zone, where petrol sheds are few and far between. Electric cars are less popular and electric commercial vehicles are almost non-existent.