Ice rain occurred with heavy showers fallen in to several areas in Norwood city limits nearby castlereigh Reservoir this morning (18).
The Ice rain occurred for several minutes within Norwood city limits it has been revealed.
Heavy showers fallen in to Norwood ,Hatton and bagawanthalawa areas today ended the months old drought weather prevailed in western slope areas of the Central Hills.
Due to the drought weather water levels of Castlereigh And Maussakale Reservoirs had receeded and severe drinking water problem has been experienced as a result.
Youth in the country are more and more addicting to flavored betel leaves and areca nuts products which are banned for selling in Sri Lanka ,day by day according to the Dr.Prasanna Jayasekare attached to National Cancer Control Programme.
Accordingly Youth in the country are addicted to flavoured Betel leaves and arecs nut products namely Babul Beeda ,Saravita ,Mawa and pan paraag in large scale mostly teanagers and very soon they will overtake the number of betel leaves chewing adults he has stressed .
He has revealed this during a press briefing held at Health Promotions Bureau in Colombo today (18)regatding world oral health day.
Betel leave chewing is the number one factor which caused oral cancer among males in Sri Lanka Dr.Jayasekara has stated.
However 76 percent of the male Oral cancer patients in the country. have been identiefied during the late stages of the disease and it is hard to cure them then Dr. jayasekara had further said.
