Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "Begging for breath: Trapped between industries Kochi residents gasp for fresh air" appearing in The New Indian Express dated 23.02.2024. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item. The news item reveal the …
Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, once said that to look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of fibrous tumour. It is probably an apt description of how India
Green Campaigners:Students undertaking KOCHI: Students are donning the role of green educators in Chalakudy. While learning themselves about the ways to protect Nature, the students will also give lessons to people on the need for going green and adopting environment-friendly ways of life. Taking a break from the hectic academic …
KOCHI: A developing city like Kochi still does not have a proper waste management system. Though a master plan is supposed to suggest concrete measures to tackle the garbage menace, the Kochi master plan hardly addresses this grave issue. The only portion that mention about the issue in the plan …
KOCHI: The Kochi Corporation is planning to set up a new solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram. As per the initial plan, the new plant will be set up on a raised land adjacent to the existing plant which is in a dilapidated condition. A team lead by Mayor Tony …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Industries and Commerce Department, the Kerala Bamboo Mission and the Kerala Bureau of Industrial Promotion are organising a bamboo festival
KOCHI: The district Health authority reported 40.1 per cent achievement of Mass Drug Administration (MDA) against filaria on Sunday. The drugs were administered to 12,36,730 people. In a mop up round on Monday and Tuesday, after the house-to-house distribution of the drugs on Sunday, offices in the city would be …
Mass drug administration against the disease from December 5 to 10 Awareness rally for Mass Drug Administration against filariaris being taken out in the city on Friday KOCHI: A rally was taken out here on Friday to create awareness about the mass drug administration against filaria to held from December …
KOCHI: A recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute states that by 2030, 70 percent of jobs in India would be created in cities, and about 5.9 crore Indians would live there. To provide enough housing and commercial space, it says, India must build the equivalent of the city of …
Shibu B S and Navamy Sudhish KOCHI: The draft master plan for the city has been prepared by the Department of Town and Country Planning, Government of Kerala. The development plan for Kochi city region 2031 mainly consists of development concepts, strategies, proposals and control regulations. The draft plan includes …
KOCHI: Voted to power after about three decades, the UDF, at the maiden meeting of the new council on Tuesday, decided to convene an emergency meeting with the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) to solve the drinking water crisis in the city.The council decided to discuss with the officials to take …
THE Kerala Cricket Association’s plan to build a stadium designed to international specifications at Edakochi has run afoul of environmental laws. The state forest department has filed a first information report in a magistrate’s court saying the cricket association (KCA) has destroyed mangrove trees in preparation for the construction work. …
KOCHI: The conference on climate change and environment that concluded at Cochin University of Science and Technology on Tuesday suggested concerted efforts by the various stakeholders to check the increasing impact of climate change across the globe. In his presentation on the role played by self-government institutions in addressing climate …
KOCHI: Climate change has been happening for several centuries leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs. But what is happening in the last two centuries has been created by man and we are beginning to see its effects in the oceans and the atmosphere, said Gangan Prathap, director, National Institute …
Two endemic fish varieties - catfish and eel - are feared to have disappeared from the Pampa. No individuals of these species have landed in the nets of fishermen for the last three years triggering suspicion of their population loss. The catfish (Nadan Mushi) and the eel (Malanjil) were once …
KOCHI: The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) & Kerala Swathanthra Matsya Thozhilaly Federation (KSMTF) are getting ready to organise continuous protests in all coastal states of the country which come under the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 2010, from October 29. Rejecting the draft CRZ notification in toto, they said that it …
THE loss of marine life in the Gulf of Mexico after the disastrous BP oil spill has become a business bonanza for Indian prawn and shrimp farms. Seafood exports to the US have seen an unexpected growth in the first five months of the current fiscal. Seafood shipped to the …
KOCHI: The maize harvest mela organised by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) saw the first harvest of maize crop (Zea mays.L) which recorded an yield of 40 quintals an acre. The harvest was inaugurated by CMFRI director G Syda Rao, and the meeting was attended by progressive farmers …
KOCHI: Travelling in the city is a nightmare, says actor Jayasurya. It takes hours to cover potholed stretches and is a waste of time and fuel, he says. Road maintenance and proper connectivity are important aspects of an emerging metro.
KOCHI: Marking the next phase of election campaigning, the leading fronts in Kochi the LDF and the UDF have come up with manifestos for the polls to the Corporation. While the LDF manifesto declares that the Front will make Kochi a global green city, the UDF's focus is on effective …
Ashna Davis KOCHI: Soon electricity and bio-products will be produced from solid waste in Kochi. Loro Marketing and Trading Pvt Ltd, an Abu-Dhabi-based business group of NRIs, is coming to Kochi with a project to produce electricity and bio products from solid waste with the aid of Irish-based Wilson technology, …
