Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (UK: , US: (listen); Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා, romanized: Śrī Laṅkā; Tamil: இலங்கை, romanized: Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon), is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal and southeast of the Arabian Sea. Sri Lanka has been called “the pearl of the Indian ocean” because of its shape and location. It is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 June 2024 English
This report was published in June 2024 by the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this is the 18th edition …
015 -11 121 Côte d'Ivoire 0.655 █ +0.005 +1 122 Sri Lanka 0.653 █ -0.010 -7 123 Jordan 0.652 █ +0.006 +3 … Brunei Darussalam 0.997 48 South Africa 0.997 49 Sri Lanka 0.997 50 Kuwait 0.997 51 Vanuatu 0.997 52 Ecuador … 553 125 Saudi Arabia 0.551 126 Kuwait 0.550 127 Sri Lanka 0.544 128 Benin 0.537 129 Jordan 0.536 130 Oman … Guatemala 0.980 1 Hungary 0.980 1 Kyrgyzstan 0.980 1 Sri Lanka 0.980 1 Lesotho 0.980 1 Mongolia 0.980 1 Mauritius … 104 121 Niger 0.096 122 Burkina Faso 0.090 123 Sri Lanka 0.090 124 Zambia 0.090 125 Botswana 0.088 126 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 May 2024 English
This research paper looks at the impact of urbanisation on lake systems in Bengaluru, with a focus on the vegetation growing in the lake and expansion of built-up areas in …
of urban wetlands: a case study of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Landsc. Urban Plan. 132, 55–68. https://doi.org/10 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …
86 87 88 89 90 Mexico South Africa El Salvador Sri Lanka South Korea Peru Azerbaijan Chile Guatemala State … 8) 111. Reykjavik, Iceland (3.9) 47. Colombo, Sri Lanka (18.3) 55. Ljubljana, Slovenia (15.9) 54. Macao … | Kyrgyzstan | Maldives | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Tajikistan | Uzbekistan 1.5 118.9 Begusarai … 7. Uzbekistan (28.6) 8. Kazakhstan (22.2) 9. Sri Lanka (19.3) 10. Maldives (15.3) CENTRAL & SOUTH ASIA …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 February 2024 English
In their 2024 working paper "Sexist Textbooks," Lee Crawfurd, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rory Todd, researchers with the Center for Global Development, Washignton D.C., investigate gender bias in textbooks from 34 …
Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St Kitts and Nevis, Tonga, Uganda, United Kingdom … Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St Kitts and Nevis, Tonga, Uganda, United Kingdom … Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Zambia, and … 49 South Sudan 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 10 10 10 11 80 Sri Lanka 1 1 9 24 10 10 27 9 1 92 St Kitts and Nevis 4 … 6 22 16 49 South Sudan 4 8 4 12 14 10 20 8 80 Sri Lanka 10 4 15 9 23 15 6 9 1 92 St Kitts and Nevis 1 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
The 2024 SDG Gender Index by Equal Measures 2030, a coalition of civil society and non-profit organisations, delivers a critical and sobering message on the state of gender equality with …
India 61.2 92 Venezuela 60.5 93 Cambodia 60.2 94 Sri Lanka 60.0 95 Guatemala 59.4 96 Botswana 59.2 97 Ghana … Uzbekistan Azerbaijan North Macedonia Panama Sri Lanka Ukraine Bosnia & Herzegovina … 5 -1.5 -1.5 -1.1 -1.0 -0.8 -0.8 -0.8 Myanmar Sri Lanka Lebanon North Macedonia Azerbaijan Belarus Ukraine … Index (see Figure 8): the United States, Poland, Sri Lanka and Kenya all saw declines in their Index scores …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 November 2023 English
The Emissions Gap Report 2023 was published on November 20, 2023 by the United Nations Environment Programme. It is the 14th edition of the annual UNEP Emissions Gap Report (EGR), …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
grown in India’s neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. And besides the Indian … back later to the subject of tea cultivation in Sri Lanka and Kenya. 23 24 4. In search of labourers The … customers, because by then tea from Kenya and Sri Lanka had captured the markets in other countries of … would have considered the tea from Kenya or Sri Lanka distinctly inferior in both aroma 45 and flavour … countries who would give up the tea from Kenya or Sri Lanka and buy Indian tea instead. The tea from our …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) is a periodic, national-level examination of the distribution range and abundance trends of Indian birds that aids in formulating conservation plans. The SoIB last …
northern and central India to southern India and Sri Lanka. Some species undertake elevational migration … Nicobar Islands, 36 to the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, and 95 to the Indian subcontinent as a whole … Birds that are endemic to the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot have rapidly declined in … Birds that are endemic to the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka are in decline. ECOLOGICAL GROUPS 32 Birds that …
VRT: Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organisation · 27 July 2023 Dutch
Extended description: 28.17 IN SRI LANKA IS DETACHEMENT VAN BELGISCHE LEGER AANGEKOMEN;PERALIYA (SRI LANKA):ENORME RAVAGE.WRAKKEN TREINWAGONS.BROKSTUKKEN.CU OPENGESLAGEN VALIES MET KLEREN.HOND LOOPT ONDER … van het conflict in Sri Lanka. De Belgische soldaten kunnen hun ogen niet geloven bij hun aankomst in de dorpen. "It was like an horror film" the witnesses of the conflict in Sri Lanka declared. The Belgian …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 June 2023 English
This report was published by the World Economic Forum, Switzerland, on June 20, 2023. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006 and this 2023 edition is the …
since the last edition. Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are the best-performing countries in the region … +0.034 +18 114 Comoros 0.664 █ +0.033 +20 115 Sri Lanka 0.663 █ -0.007 -5 116 Nepal 0.659 █ -0.033 -20 … Germany 0.989 83 Lithuania 0.989 84 Norway 0.989 85 Sri Lanka 0.988 86 United Arab Emirates 0.988 87 Saudi Arabia … Niger 0.570 122 Bahrain 0.564 123 Japan 0.561 124 Sri Lanka 0.555 125 Jordan 0.542 126 Chad 0.538 127 Lebanon … Poland 0.980 1 Romania 0.980 1 Slovakia 0.980 1 Sri Lanka 0.980 1 Uganda 0.980 1 Uruguay 0.980 1 Zambia …