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 …
Thiruvananthapuram: Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said on Wednesday that the police seemed to be a mute witness to rampant illegal river sand mining in the State. Inaugurating an annual conference of vigilance officers of government departments and public sector undertakings here, Mr. Balakrishnan said that unauthorised miners had even dug …
Anil S KOCHI: Here is an initiative from the Centre to protect the biodiversity cover in the state. Two places in the state - Vembanad and Kannur - are among the 38 spots identified by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) across the country to launch its scheme …
A CPI(M)-backed non-profit organisation in Kannur has approached the Kerala High Court, challenging the Union environment ministry’s decision to close a mangrove theme park. On July 21, Justice S Sirijagan directed Pappinissery Eco-Tourism Society to implead state of Kerala and make it the respondent. The Ministry of Environment and Forests …
R Jayaraj | Kannur The closure of the Rs 5-crore Mangrove Theme Park of a CPI(M)-controlled cooperative at Pappinissery in Kannur has led to the collapse of a huge corporate project of the Marxists. The park was closed on Monday after the Additional District Magistrate, Kannur served notice to the …
KANNUR: The Pappinisseri Eco-Tourism Society closed down its mangrove theme park on the northern bank of the Valapattanam river on Monday after it was served a copy of the order of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests by the State Coastal Zone Management Authority. Kannur tahsildar P. Pavithran handed …
The CPI(M) on Friday refused point blank to obey an order from the Union environment ministry to close down a controversial mangrove theme park which it runs at Pappinesserry in Kannur. It was on Thursday that the ministry, on the basis of a complaint by the Kannur MP and Congress …
T P Nijeesh MALAPPURAM: In a faunal exploratory survey of the Aralam Wild Life Sanctuary in Kannur district, a team of scientists at the Western Ghat Regional Centre of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has discovered a new catfish species from Uruttyppuzha, an upland stream-tributary of the west-flowing Valapattanam River …
Whether from a class perspective or from a community identity perspective, it is undeniably the biggest failure that decades after the land reforms, a good majority of the dalits and adivasis in Kerala remain fully landless. In the context of the Supreme Court verdict of 21 July 2009, which rejected …
KANNUR: The Biodiversity Centre set up at the District Agricultural Farm at Karimbam here under the aegis of the district panchayat will be open to the public on Thursday. The Biodiversity Centre was started by the Agriculture Department with the co-operation of the Community Agricultural Biodiversity Centre at Puthur Vayal …
Kerala's state poverty eradication mission has a phenomenal organisation of women even by global perspective Till five years ago, life for 30-year-old Sheeja was a mountain that she couldn't climb. A sick husband who couldn't work and three school-going children - Sheeja's shoulders couldn't carry all the financial burdens alone. …
Eleven years ago, Pathampara, a 90-minute drive from Kannur, made headlines when it stopped petitioning the government for electricity and instead began generating its own power from a very small facility using the flow of a local stream to run a turbine. Pathampara's achievement has been replicated in the Narmada …
a rs 25 crore amusement park coming up in Kerala's Kannur district, sponsored by local Communist Party of India-Marxist (cpi-m) leaders, has raised environmental and health concerns. The water park is to be set up near the famous Parassinikadavu temple. Promoted by a cooperative society called Malabar Pleasures Private Limited …
