Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
KOLLAM: District Collector A. Shajahan has directed the Kollam Municipal Corporation authorities to stop the construction activities of the bus stand at Tangasseri utilising the MLA fund. He has forwarded a copy of the directive issued by the Additional Chief Secretary to the Corporation secretary on Thursday evening. The Additional …
KOLLAM: Tusker Gopalakrishnan, which was killed in a road accident, was cremated on Friday evening in the presence of thousands of grief-stricken devotees and elephant-lovers. The poojaris and devotees of Asramam Sree Krishnaswamy Temple lit the pyre around 5.45 p.m. on the temple premises. It will take three days for …
KOLLAM: The 40-year-old tusker Gopalakrishnan of Asramam Sree Krishnaswamy Temple here, sustained serious injuries when a sand-laden lorry knocked it down in the wee hours of Tuesday. The tusker suffered fractures on both its hind legs. Another tusker Rajasekharan of Sakthikulangara Temple, and two mahouts also sustained minor injuries in …
KOLLAM: The Physics Department of Fathima Mata National College here will organise a seminar on Nanoscience and Technology from March 23 to 25. Seminar convener Prof E.P. Wilson said that the objective of the seminar was to provide an opportunity for the delegates to learn, exchange and interact with new …
KOLLAM: ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said that the country will be able to develop its own earth observation satellite within two years. Interacting with the students of TKM Engineering College as part of the Conjura 09, technical symposium on national security, Madhavan Nair said that with the development …
KOLLAM: Ombudsman for Local Self-Government Institutions M.R.Hariharan has ordered the Kollam Corporation not to fell the remaining 42 trees that had been left after large-scale felling of trees by the Corporation for the widening of the Kappalandimukku-Asramam Muneeswarankoil road here. The order was issued on a complaint filed by environmentalist …
KOLLAM: Kollam is getting ready to have a full-fledged observatory with international standards, in the International Year of Astronomy (2009). It will be set up at the initiative of the All-Kerala Astro Sciences Society (AKAS). Former Vice-Chancellor of Kozhikode University and renowned astrophysics teacher G.K.Sasidharan, who is also the founder-president …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Livestock Development Board (KLDB), a State Government undertaking, is starting a technical consultancy targeting grassroot level dairy farmers as well as prospective big investors in the State
KOLLAM: Pravasi Bharatheeya Puraskar winner and industrialist B. Ravi Pillai said that the global economic crisis would start affecting India from 2009. Addressing a meet the press programme at the Press Club here on Wednesday, he said the global economy was facing a shortage of $ 8 trillion. The GDP …
KOLLAM: Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran said that selling drinking water was not the policy of the Government. Inaugurating a revenue adalat organised by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) at Jalabhavan here on Monday, he said that the money collected from the water consumers was just the cost of electricity, …
KOLLAM: The Kollam Corporation authorities began felling avenue trees on the Kappalandimukku-Ashramam road in Kollam on Thursday as part of converting the road into four-lane amidst resistance from environmentalists. Two employees engaged by the Corporation and KSUDP officials began chopping the trees from 10.30 a.m. Paristhithi Samrakshana Ekopana Samithi general …
KOLLAM: Based on the Forest Rights Act approved by the Union Government, forest rights committees will be set up in the district on August 3. A meeting chaired by District Collector A.Shajahan has taken a decision in this regard. The Act envisages to provide rights on the dwelling places of …
Sasthamkotta Lake is Kerala's biggest fresh water lake. The lake is facing degradation due to anthropogenic activities such as directing human waste, soil erosion due to destruction of vegetation and dumping of waste from hotels and slaughterhouses. The water samples from different stations were analysed from a period March 2006 …
A tsunami museum, the first of its kind in India, has been opened at Alappad village in Kerala's Kollam district. It aims to educate people about the risks of tsunamis and to commemorate those who died on December 26, 2004. The museum was set up at a cost of Rs …
In Mayyanad panchayat of Kerala, drinking water is supplied by Kerala Water Authority through pipelines from 8 tube wells drilled for the purpose. An analysis of water quality showed that the mean water pH was 6.72, the colour and the iron content were above desirable limit and the total and …
