The civil war in Sri Lanka has taken its toll on the environment also. Millions of palmyrah trees have been destroyed in Sri Lanka's war-shattered northern province. Government officials say

Sri Lanka's premier medical agency has recommended immediate withdrawal of a vaccine imported from India and revaccinate over three million children. Doctors say that these children received

The population of

The recently published Annual Health Bulletin of the ministry of health in Sri Lanka has highlighted the debilitating effect of poisoning in the island. In 1995, there were 62,973 cases of

With the southwestern monsoon arriving

In an unprecedented lawsuit filed against the government of Sri Lanka by five infants aged between two-and-a-half months and two years, the Supreme Court recently ordered the operators of a

An allocation of Rs 15.5 million has been made by the government of Sri Lanka to rehabilitate 93 minor irrigation projects in the Attanagalla electorate. A team of technical officers headed by the

Experts in this island nation are of the opi

Sri Lanka's minister of public adminis

At a recent