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 …
In July-August 2003, when soft-drink firms across the country were struggling to contain the impact of the discovery of pesticide residues in their products, in Kerala, Coca-Cola came under intense scrutiny for distributing sludge from its bottling unit at Plachimada in Palakkad district containing cadmium and lead to local farmers, …
Justice prevails: The Supreme Court on March 15, 2005, ruled that states will have to allot alternative cultivable land to even those people who have been affected temporarily by the Sardar Sarovar Project on Narmada River. The judgement is expected to have a major impact on the relief and rehabilitation …
paddy farmers in Kerala's Alappuzha district have locked horns with the state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (ntpc) over the sharing of Achanakovil River water. The farmers of Veeyapuram, Haripad and Pallippad panchayats in the district's upper Kuttanad area recently held protests complaining that a check-dam built on the river at …
Immediately after independence, the state government in Kerala focused on tapping the hydropower potential of the state. The efforts did bear some fruit. The lion's share of Kerala's power requirements is provided by 20 hydel power plants. In recent years, thermal power plants have also been pushed into service. However, …
tsunami-hit Kerala is witnessing a hot debate on the effectiveness of sea walls. The state government has requested the Union government to provide it Rs 757 crore for reconstruction and rehabilitation work. A sizeable portion of this will be spent on sea wall construction off the coast at Kollam and …
sridevi pillai Kochi as the Sabarimala pilgrim season began recently, reports poured in about the huge pilgrim rush and the improved facilities for them. The environmental implications of these have largely been ignored. The fact is, the entire Pampa river basin is polluted due to lack of sanitation and waste …
Even as relief work continues in areas devastated by the tsunami, the corpus of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund has quietly swelled to around Rs 500 crore. The money is said to be the largest corpus ever collected through the fund. This is just money that has been sent …
when you buy a bottle of Coke, the company's sales figures increase. The stock price goes up, encouraging, activists claim, it to support dubious labour practices in Latin America, deplete groundwater in Kerala, and sell drinks laced with pesticides all over India. And now Max Keiser, a former New York …
www.keralafishworkers.org The world is getting serious about its dwindling marine resources. There is a large amount of frightening data on it. But hardly do these touch the fisherfolk
Western Ghats form the catchment of all the 44 rivers that sustain the agroeconomy of Kerala. A study was conducted to assess the effect of land use on runoff from small watersheds of Western Ghats. Three small mono-culture watersheds, planted with cashew, coffee, tea and one small watershed with dense …
the committee constituted by the Union agriculture ministry to look into the endosulfan tragedy in Kerala has reviewed the controversial O P Dubey committee report on the crisis. The committee held its second meeting on November 5, 2004. The Dubey committee report said that endosulfan was not the cause of …
vanilla growers in India's southern states are in deep trouble. They don't know what to do with the current season's crop because the buyers have disappeared from the market. The high price of vanilla in the international market had tempted these farmers to take up the cash crop's cultivation in …
the Kerala government is trying to dodge the issue of rehabilitating the tribals who faced police firing from close range at the Muthunga Wildlife Sanctuary in February 2003 while fighting for control over forestland. The National Human Rights Commission (nhrc) has asked it to furnish details in this regard. The …
the Kerala government has imposed a stay on the order issued by its industries department, which permitted the Aluva-based Kerala Rare Earths and Minerals Limited (kreml) to mine mineral sand from the coastal areas of Alappuzha district. With this step, it has temporarily quelled the storm raised by opponents of …
in a major shift, the Union government is contemplating changes in its drought relief norms to accommodate Kerala's claim of compensation for perennial crop loss during the dry spell in the state in 2003. At present, only losses in seasonal crops are considered for relief. Perennial crops, most of which …
During a recent visit to Fiji, I was pleasantly surprised to find boiled tapioca and hot chutney among the exotic items served at a hotel. The dish was so delicious that for a moment I was unknowingly transported back to my homeland
The launch of Palm Lahar soft drink could have gone unnoticed as just another cola launch, had it not been for the owner of the brand. Unbelievable as it may sound, it's the tourism-minded government of Kerala. The drink is made of palm sugar, cane sugar and carbonated water, based …
unique protest: In a potent symbolic gesture equating a dangerous pesticide with the atom bomb, a Quit India Endosulfan march was organised in Kerala on August 6
