An inmate held at the Pallekele Open Air Prison has drowned while attempting to escape from custody, police said. ..

Dynamited to death in the Mahaweli Ganga at Waratenna, Getambe, has been the fate of an ‘endangered’ endemic freshwater fish which has not been sighted for at least five years and was believed to be ...

Explaining that the stretch of the Mahaweli Ganga below the Peradeniya bridge and above the Katugastota bridge is the habitat of not only aquatic plants but also some species of fish not found ...