Kochi: Keeping decibels in check
Last year, the sound decibels at Pallimukku and Kundanoor Junctions recorded 106 decibels, nearly double the permissible levels. KOCHI: Last year, the sound decibels at Pallimukku and Kundanoor Junctions
New Indian Express (Kochi)
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Pepsi plant in Kerala extracting excess water
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After Coca Cola, another soft-drink major Pepsi has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala which has alleged that its plant in Palakkad district was extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants.
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Man eating' leopard gone, but fear lingers
KOCHI: People in Edayar are gripped by fear. Though the four-day long search for the leopard has come to an end, the people are terror-stricken. The police and the authorities concerned have ruled out the presence of any man-eater in the vicinity. But the locals believe that the leopard will strike any moment and are determined to capture it all by themselves.
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Master plan before Dec 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The master plan for Thiruvananthapuram will be published before December 2011, Local Self-Government Minister Paloli Mohammed Kutty told the Assembly on Wednesday.
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Coca-Cola opposes government decision
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Coca-Cola company has opposed the State Cabinet decision to set up a special tribunal for realising compensation from the company, as a follow-up action to the recommendations of the high-powered committee.
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NTCA wants ban on night traffic to stay
K P Sai Kiran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy surrounding the night-time traffic ban along the 13-km stretch of the National Highway 212 running through the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, is getting more vexed with the National Tiger Conservation Authority joining the issue.
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Plachimada: Tribunal to recover damages
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state Cabinet on Wednesday decided to set up a tribunal for realising the compensation from the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Company for the ecological damage caused at Plachimada.
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Corporation to count trees in city
KOCHI: As a part of increasing the green cover and making afforestation programme more effective and meaningful, the Kochi Corporation has decided to start a tree census to get the feedback on the success rate of tree plantation in the city on June 30. The civic body has already reached an arrangement with the Rajagiri School, Kalamassery, to carry out the survey of the trees.
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Swine flu: Under control, says Central team
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: No need to panic. Situation under control. Swine flu has caused more casualties among pregnant women as they failed to report on time to the hospitals. These are the preliminary findings of the Central team that visited Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam to assess the swine flu situation.
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Confirmed: H1N1 cases on the rise
U Anand Kumar NEW DELHI: Pandemic influenza H1N1 cases continued to be on the rise in the southern states, especially Kerala, during the last two weeks. In all, 266 lab-confirmed cases were reported in Kerala last week out of a total 345 confirmed cases in the country.
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Kerala to make Coke pay for damage
KOCHI: Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Sunday lashed out at soft drink giant Coca Cola and said a tribunal will be set up to recover the cost of socio-economic damages caused by a now-shut plant of the company in the state.