Report filed by the Additional Secretary, Local Self Government Department, Kerala in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Suo Motu based on the report dated 26.06.2023 received from Hon’ble Justice A.V. Ramakrishna Pillai on the Present Status of Waste dump site at Cubaloor in Mangalpady Panchayat, Kasargod District, …
The Radhapuram panchayat union that encompasses Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project on Tuesday thanked Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for having taken initiatives to ensure the early commissioning of the project in a bid to obliterate power cut prevailing across the State. A resolution was passed in the panchayat union council meeting held …
KOCHI: Despite the Corporation’s attempts to control and prevent illegal disposal of waste along the roadside and in the open, the practice continues to be prevalent in the city. As the latest step to combat illegal dumping of waste, the civic body will soon install surveillance cameras at dump sites …
Jagatsinghpur: A team of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), led by its member Satyabrata Pal visited Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadakujanga panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district today to investigate into the incidences of human rights violation in the proposed Posco site area. The team visited Polang and Noliasahi villages of Gadkujang panchayats. …
Kalindi Das, 48, a labourer in this region where Korean giant Posco has proposed to set up its mega steel project, earned Rs 250 per day as wage till June last year. Today, he has no regular source of income. Kalindi worked in a betel vine plantation for his living. …
CHENNAI: This weekend, the lake at Mudichur in Tambaram, which usually wears a deserted look, saw an unusual clean-up crew at work. Along with students in T-shirts and caps scouring the water like treasure hunters, were 42 Marines from the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker that is currently docked at Chennai …
Rs. 3.25 crores allotted for installing solar panels to ensure uninterrupted supply of power to inmates The beneficiaries of ‘green house' scheme, who are supposed to occupy their houses at the earliest, need not worry about the prevailing load shedding in the district. The conventional energy has come as a …
Shimla, 6 April: The Himachal Pradesh Assembly today passed the HP Lokayukta Bill, 2012, in the amended form with incorporation of an additional clause, empowering Lokayukta with powers of contempt of court at par with the High Court. The passage of the Bill was smooth as the entire Congress Opposition …
PARADIP: With wells running dry and water tables depleting throughout the State, this is feared to be a dry summer. The impact is already being felt in Jagatsinghpur district. Many villages here are facing acute water shortage. To address the issue, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had laid foundation stone for …
Chennai Corporation to tap into alternative energy to light up coastal roads in newly-added areas Imagine 15-metre towers with micro wind turbines above and four solar panels below vying with huge palm trees to create a geometrically regular pattern along the East Coast Road. These towers, with a hybrid of …
KOCHI: The much-hyped Suchitwa Mission’s sanitation project for the coastal panchayats of Chellanam, Kumbalangi and Kumbalam still remains on paper. With the project delaying indefinitely, the chances of it bringing any relief to the people in these places during monsoon seems remote. These three panchayats have been reeling under acute …
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Lokayukta Bill was introduced by Chief Minister PK Dhumal in the Vidhan Sabha today. It covers all public servants, right from the Chief Minister to the lowest panchayat functionary, but leaves out non-governmental organisations, cooperative societies and sports bodies. Unlike the existing one-man institution, the proposed …
Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan gave a bonanza of development works worth Rs. 46 crore at a block-level Antyodaya Mela at Nasrullahganj in Sehore district today. On the occasion, funds to the tune of Rs. 32 crore 94 lakh 50 thousand under various schemes were given away to 21 …
KOCHI: Ernakulam District Panchayat vice-president Bindu George presented a Rs 50-crore surplus budget for 2012-13 to the 26-member council on Thursday. The budget envisages a total income of Rs 920 crore and an expenditure of Rs 870 crore. Clean Environs Eco-issues and cleanliness drive will be taken up in a …
The United Democratic Front-led district panchayat has passed a surplus budget of Rs.50.06 crore on Thursday, which the four-member opposition Left Democratic Front dispelled as a dream budget cut off from reality. In her second straight budget, vice-president Bindu George envisaged an income of Rs.920.17 crore against an expenditure of …
The Pathanamthitta District Panchayat will set up five small and mini hydro-electric projects as a joint venture of the grama and block panchayats in the district in the next five years. This was announced by the panchayat vice-president, P. Vijayamma, while presenting the annual budget at the budget session held …
FPF team recovers 100 sold nug BILLAWAR: Despite blanket ban by the Supreme Court of India on green felling, nearly 200 green Deodar trees have been felled in Machhedi area of Billawar Forest Division. Sources said this felling in a particular Compartment of Billawar Range at Kun Nallah on Billawar-Machhedi …
Wilting under pressure from the Centre and after constant raps by the Supreme Court, the state government has now put a step forward in stopping illegal mining. A special 1000-member team, to be christened Mining Protection Force, will be set up to curb illegal mining in the state. The state …
Anita Bai Narre insisted on a toilet as precondition for living at husband's place As if to buttress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's emphasis on drinking water and sanitation in his reply to the motion of thanks to the President's address, a young woman was rewarded for her successful insistence on …
Quarrying has been taking a heavy toll on Kerala's undulating terrain, altering the geo-physiological characteristics of the much-flaunted ‘God's Own Country'. There is, perhaps, no other place in Kerala as affected by quarrying as Pathanamthitta district where there are an estimated 800 quarries. A close look at the slow devastation …
Srinagar: The state government aims at planting 33.70 lakh saplings across the Valley in the coming months. The plantation season begins in the Valley after the harsh winter. The government will also make available 14,000 chinar saplings free of cost for plantation. This was stated during a meeting of various …
