Northern Province is a province of Sri Lanka. Its capital is Jaffna. It is one of 2 provinces of Sri Lanka that has an overwhelming non Sinhalese population. It is the bastion of the Tamil minority and was part of the former independent Jaffna Kingdom. The current civil war has its roots in this province. Majority of the people earn their livelihood as farmers, fishers and professionals in the civil and business sectors. It is known for its institutions of higher education. Small scale industry such as chemical, light manufacturing and textiles were present before the civil war. Jaffna peninsula itself is irrigated by underground aquifers fed by wells whereas the rest of the province has irrigation tanks. Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil, Jaffna Jaffna (யாழà¯à®ªà¯à®ªà®¾à®£à®®à¯ in Tamil meaning யாழà¯=harp, பாணமà¯=town of harper, යà·à¶´à¶±à¶º in Sinhala) the capital city of the Northern Province, Sri Lanka. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
SriLanka, known as Ceylon until 1972, is a teardrop shaped tropical island nation in the Indian Ocean lying 29 kilometers off the southeast coast of peninsular India.
SriLanka's socio-economic indicators are better than average for developing countries, with an annual population growth rate estimated at 1.3%, a literacy rate of 89%, and an infant mortality rate of 18 per 1,000.
SriLanka is a party to the 1988 United Nations Drug Convention, although enabling legislation for the convention had not been presented to parliament by the end of 1998.
Snakebite is also a very common accident in SriLanka which, with a population of 19 million, suffers hundreds of snakebite fatalities each year and has earned the dubious reputation of being the country with the highest annual snakebite death rate, per capita, in the world.
Here the ultimate aim is to produce a specific antivenom for SriLanka Russell’s viper bite from the venom of Sri Lankan Russell’s vipers, thereby increasing the efficiency of the available treatment and reducing the unpleasant side effects that resulted from large doses of Indian antivenom.
The Sri Lankan Russell’s viper (Daboia russelli russelli) is the snake at the centre of an epidemic.
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