Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
The applicants are mother and son, having two acres of land. They availed a loan of Rs.30,000 on November 7, 2002. They were regularly making payments. But recently due to distress, repayment could not be made. Now an amount of Rs.20,117 is due. According to the [North Malabar Gramin] bank, …
THE Coca-Cola company and its CEO, Mr Neville Isdell, must be congratulated for some excellent public relations work lately, and in particular, in India. Neville Isdell was the "guest editor' of ET(March 17, 2008) and he used the platform to pull off a wonderful public relations coup
The Kerala government will depute a high-level task force with Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu P. Sainath, Aruna Roy (both Magsaysay Award winners), and developmental economist Jean Dreze as members to evaluate the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the State and submit recommendations. This was …
A Central team will visit Kerala later this week to make an on-the-spot assessment of the damage caused to standing crop by the rains that lashed the State over the past week, killing 14 people. This was disclosed here on Monday by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Union Agriculture …
The untimely summer rain, which has so far caused an estimated Rs.110-crore loss in damaged crops and claimed 12 lives, is likely to turn out to be a blessing in disguise for fish workers. The rain that brought havoc on rice, pepper, coffee and areca crops seems to be benevolent …
India has added two more swanky symbols to make it part of the first-world grade: in Hyderabad and the gleaming Bengaluru international airport. But look behind the glitzy fa
Kerala needs to work out tourism products in conjunction with private stake-holders and local communities to meet the challenges ahead, says Fiona Jeffrey, chairman of the World Travel Market (WTM), a four-day international event held annually in London for those in the travel business. Ms. Jeffrey, who is here to …
The heavy rain over the past one week and more has claimed more lives and caused further crop loss across the State. Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan visited the rain-hit kole paddy lands in Thrissur district on Sunday and assured the farmers of all possible assistance. Three persons were killed in …
Coconut Development Board (CDB) will promote a new technology that controls pests in coconut trees. The technology that was invented by Bio-Control Research Laboratories (BCRL), a division of Pest Control India Pvt Ltd, would control the pests like Rhinoceros beetle (RB) and Red Palm Weevil (RPW) in coconut palms. CDB …
The State government is ready with an action plan to prevent the recurrence of chikungunya and other epidemics, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy told the Assembly on Monday. Answering a submission from Kerala Congress (M) leader K.M. Mani, she said the government had sanctioned a sum of Rs.48.3 crore to the …
The Health Department has put its entire machinery on alert in Kerala following reports of viral fever from Vadakara in Kozhikode district. According to senior Health Department officials, two cases of viral fever are suspected to be chikungunya. Two months ago, 10 cases of suspected chikungunya were reported from Vadakara, …
uncertainty continues in Chengara village in south Kerala's Pathanamthitta district where about 10,000 landless people forcibly settled in a rubber plantation in August 2007. The settlers, mostly dalits and tribal people, say that the government's indifference to their repeated demands for land triggered the current struggle. "Land to landless adivasis …
It was filed by a Kerala NGO The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed at the admission stage a writ petition filed by Jan Sakthi, a non-governmental organisation, represented by Kerala MLA, K.J. Alphons, a retired IAS officer, for a direction to decommission the Mullaperiyar dam as it is posing danger …
LIFESTYLE: It will house around 50 yachts and will be the world's only marina with a golf course. Ever wondered where Vijay Mallya, the proud owner of three luxury yachts, docks his boats? Not in India, for sure, as India does not yet have a marina for private yachts. But …
A special team of the Coimbatore City Police late on Saturday night arrested in Kerala three of a 10-member inter-State sandalwood smuggling gang that robbed two policemen of a pistol here on February 23. The pistol was not recovered. The city police had constituted special teams to probe the incident. …
UN report predicts 55 per cent of Indians will live in cities by 2050 Half of the world's population is expected to turn urban by the end of this year. A UN report now estimates that cities in Africa and Asia will account for most of the growth in urban …
State stands to gain from welfare schemes announced for minorities Roughly four lakh farmers in Kerala are expected to gain from the debt relief measures announced by Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's farmer-friendly budget. Since the huge majority of farmers in debt in Kerala are marginal (holding below one hectare) …
The Traditional Bamboo Dependent (TBDs) community produce traditional bamboo products for their subsistence as well as for meeting the local seasonal demand. Bamboo based production activities of TBDs involve four stages, viz., collection of raw materials, processing, production and marketing.
Mr. P.G. Jayachandran of Thrissur district in Kerala in his farm. Generating a better income from a limited area is an art, especially in farming operations, where judicious use of available space is an important factor. Very fewfarmers who practise integrated farming succeed in generating a good income from it. …
Mixing of cheap coconut oil with costly edible oils is rampant in south Adulteration is posing a serious threat to the edible oil trade in south India. Mixing of refined coconut oil, made from poor quality copra, with other oils is on the rise. As coconut oil is the cheapest …
