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 …
Thrissur: Palakkad, one of the major rice producing areas in the state, is staring at the worst drought in recent times. As per a study conducted by the agricultural department, out of the 43,000 hectares of paddy fields in the district, 6,050 hectare have been affected by drought this season. …
Thrissur: A panel constituted to work on demarcating ecologically-sensitive zones around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the state on Monday visited the Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad and held deliberations with the public. The panel members, comprising MLAs T N Prathapan, N Shamsudeen and state wildlife board officials, …
Severe drought conditions have led to drying up of the river The Bharathapuzha is a trickle. Severe drought conditions and drying up of the river have virtually brought it under the control of the sand-mining lobby. Hundreds of truckloads of sand are collected from the river bed in blatant violation …
The environment organisations have come out strongly against the new move of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) to revive the Pathrakadavu hydroelectric project. The project was proposed as an alternative to the Silent Valley project, being taken up now at the Silent Valley buffer zone in Mannarkkad taluk of …
Failed monsoons have led to an acute scarcity of water Drinking water rationing is being considered in Kerala, the land of 44 rivers. Acute scarcity of drinking water has gripped most of the districts in the State, and the authorities may ration the quantity of drinking water for each household. …
The increasing incidence of man-animal conflict in northern Kerala have prompted wildlife researchers to go to the root cause of the issue. Besides the straying of tigers and leopards into human habitations in some districts, human-elephant conflicts were reported from Palakkad and Malappuram districts. The incidents were relatively new in …
Opposition members stage a walk out in the Assembly The Kerala Cabinet will discuss on Wednesday how the State should respond to Tamil Nadu’s unresponsiveness to its demand for releasing water under the Parambikulam-Aliyar pact. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday told the Assembly that the Minister for Water Resources …
The Malampuzha Dam Protection Council has called upon the government to close down a hospital waste management plant run by Indian Medical Association Goes Eco-Friendly (IMAGE), an initiative of the Indian Medical Association, at Manthuruthy in Malampuzha. In a statement here on Monday, council secretary P.S. Panikkar raised concerns of …
The State government is planning to declare the 148 sq. km. buffer zone of Silent Valley National Park as the new Bhavani-Kadalundi Wildlife Sanctuary “for ensuring long-term protection of the entire bio-diversity of the area” that include the unique rain forests of Silent Valley. The draft notification on constituting a …
Lays emphasis on long-term monitoring Groundwater resources in Kerala have come under increasing stress from rising levels of exploitation and pollution, the first aquifer atlas of Kerala has revealed. The atlas, compiled by the Central Ground Water Board, estimates the net annual groundwater availability in the State at 6.01 billion …
Indian Medical Association has joined hands with Credai Clean City Movement to tackle the increasing threat of biomedical waste in the city. Credai has signed an MoU with IMA to collect biomedical waste from apartment complexes in the city and to treat it at the Indian Medical Association’s Goes Eco-friendly …
The Deputy Director of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve K. Vijayanandan in a statement here on Friday has said that a joint perambulation of officials of Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu and Parambikulam Tiger Reserve in Kerala was held on Thursday to discuss various inter state protection issues. During the joint …
Finding it difficult to dispose of the biomedical waste generated in your home? The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) offers you a solution. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Medical Association (IMA) for collecting biomedical waste from apartment complexes in the city …
First State to form BMCs The government has formally declared the constitution of Biodiversity Management Committees in all the 978 grama panchayats, 60 municipalities, and the five Corporations in Kerala, signalling the shift to a broad-based system for the conservation of biological resources. Addressing the media after a Cabinet meeting …
The Rs.20,000-crore Muthoot Pappachan Group, which has a minor wing doing business in alternate energy, is keen on investing in a big way in the wind energy sector in Kerala, especially over the Ramakkalmedu ridges on the Western Ghats in Idukki district, the group’s chairman and managing director Thomas John …
First 30-MW project to come up in Palakkad in six months The State Cabinet on Wednesday gave the green signal for setting up solar projects in various parts of the State with a combined generation capacity of 330 MW. Addressing a press conference soon after the weekly Cabinet meeting here, …
Complaints of overexploitation of groundwater The Assembly Committee on Environment, which visited the bottling plant of PepsiCo at Kanjikode on Tuesday, directed the Groundwater Department to monitor and restrict strictly the use of groundwater by the company. The committee, on complaints from various organisations that the soft-drink giant was overexploiting …
Elaborate arrangements have been made to monitor restaurants, hotels and other food businesses within the State and also the inflow of food items from outside the State during the festival season, Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar has said. Special surveillance squads had already been deployed for the purpose in all districts. …
The Southern Ispat steel re-rolling company was closed down on Friday following an order of the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) for not complying with rules on pollution control. The company’s licence had expired on June 30, PCB officials said. The company was served notice earlier after local people complained …
The area around forests has had several human-animal conflicts Solar fences will henceforth secure human settlements and farmlands in the three forest divisions of Wayanad from wild animal raids that have lead to several man-animal conflicts in recent years. Solar fences will be installed along a length of 300 km …
