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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Farmers hit by wild elephants plan stir
PALAKKAD: The farmers in the Pudussery-Malampuzha belt have threatened to begin cooking inside the civil station here if their demand to chase away the wild elephants into the forests is not met.
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Call to tap mineral resources
KOLLAM: Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML) managing director N R Subramaniam stressed the need for developing eco-friendly technology to make use of the mineral resources of the State.
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Swine flu: 15 positive cases in Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With swine flu infections recurring in Kerala, the state authorities today put the number of positive cases at 15 even as they stepped up preventive and awareness campaign across the districts.
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People's front formed against waste-dumping
PARAVOOR: People's Defence Front, an organisation to persuade the municipal authorities to take precautionary measures to prevent the spread of epidemics owing to unscientific dumping of waste, was formed at Vedimara on Tuesday.
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Thinking clean and green
Asha Prakash
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Greens petition against Munnar Ordinance
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Madhavan Pillai Foundation, in a petition, has requested Governor R S Gavai not to accord sanction to the Ordinance for taking over 1,036 acres of land in Munnar for setting up a tourism township. The foundation further urged the government to consult experts from various fields before finalising any development plan for the area.
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Kerala cannot afford 45-metre-wide roads
KOCHI: Opposing the Centre's move to go ahead with 45-metre-wide highways in Kerala, an affected person, T N Prasannakumar has said the State Government had already sacrificed much for the development of roads in the past and the plans to acquire more land is not at all justifiable.
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Government cool as Kerala reels in fever
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Department of Health on Tuesday denied reports that fever was spreading rapidly in the state. There has been no unprecedented rise in fever cases in the state and no epidemic-like situation is prevailing, officials said.
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Kerala Water Authority to sell bottled water
KOCHI: The role played by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) in quenching the thirst of Kochiites has been instrumental though not without problems associated with the services offered by the government. Now the KWA has decided to launch packaged potable water in Kochi which has so far been the monopoly of private players.
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Order to check tree felling on govt land passed
KOCHI: The State Government has come out with an Executive Order on