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 …
With a series of environmental problems and degradation threat looming large over the rivers Pampa and Achankovil in the wake of the recent Supreme Court order directing the Centre to implement the proposed river linking projects, Kerala Electricity Workers Federation (KEWF) has called upon the Government to expedite the proposed …
Leopards straying into in villages nestling along the forest fringes in the State, attacking people and their cattle have become a matter of serious concern. The killing of a healthy female leopard that had strayed into the small hamlet of Angamoozhy in the Ranni forest division by an unruly mob …
Urbanisation, influx of pilgrims, fertilizer-intensive farming, and indiscriminate sand-mining have impacted on the water quality of Manimala river, a major source of drinking water in Kottayam and Pathanamthitta districts. A report published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, an international journal devoted to progress in the use of monitoring data in …
The Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PPS), a Kozhencherry-based prominent environmental group that has been campaigning for the cause of Pampa since the past two decades, have called upon the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to take immediate steps to cancel the clearance granted for the proposed greenfield airport project …
As many as 73,839 children below the age of five years have been administered with polio vaccine as part of the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme in Pathanamthitta district on Sunday, according to official sources. Of the 73,839 children who have been administered with the polio vaccine, 191 belonged to parents …
The district administration will prepare a comprehensive action plan for the conservation of the Pampa, Manimala, Achenkovil, and Kallada rivers which course through the district, District Collector P. Venugopal has said. The support of local self-government institutions, government agencies, and non-government organisations (NGOs) would be enlisted, he said while addressing …
State’s first solar-powered campus, perhaps the first one of its kind in the whole country, is coming up in Thiruvalla. Mar Athanasios College For Advanced Studies Thiruvalla (Macfast), the first private self-financing college in the State that had carved a special niche for becoming first on many fronts over the …
The officials in charge of the reservoir spotted two minor cracks on it bottom, believed to have been caused by the latest tremor. Recurrence of mild tremors in Idukki district in Kerala is causing concern over the safety of the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam, located on the borders with Tamil Nadu. …
The first phase of the project to make Pathanamthitta plastic-free will be launched with a plastic-collection campaign in the district on Thursday. Addressing a press meet on Wednesday, District Collector P. Venugopal and district panchayat president Babu George said arrangements had been made to collect plastics from the grama panchayats …
Apprehensions have been raised by many farmers on the way the Rs 1,850-crore Kuttanad package recommended by the Dr M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) is being implemented; it will not achieve the desired results and also might cause irreparable damage to the entire system, they feel. The package aimed at …
Mata Amritanandamayi Math is to extend its popular cleaning project, ‘Amala Bharathom’, to Sabarimala as a part of the much sought-after massive sanitation programme of the State government at the pilgrim centre. In a statement issued here on Friday, Vice-chairman of Mata Amritanandamayi Math, Swami Amritaswarupananda, said the Math would …
The State Government is seeking to know whether the proposed Kudankulam-Madakkathara transmission line could be swapped for a capacity boost-up of an existing 220-KV line. The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) have been asked to ascertain whether transmission could be taken up through …
Water level in River Pampa, on the foothills of Sabarimala, witnessed a sudden spurt around 8.15 p.m. following heavy downpour in the forests, on Wednesday. The river breached its banks following flash floods and the vehicle parking lots at Pampa-Triveni, on the banks of Pampa and the Pampa Manalpuram were …
A conference of the Paristhiti Samrakshana Ekopana Samithi (environment protection coordination committee) here on Monday called upon the Union government to take steps to address the fears of people about the Kudankulam nuclear power plant project. A statement in this connection said the fears should be seen in the backdrop …
The district administration has chalked a novel scheme to make Pathanamthitta plastic-free from November 14, according to District Collector, P.Venugopal. An official meeting convened by the Collector here the other day has resolved to make necessary arrangements to supply eco-friendly carry bags made of cloth, priced at Rs 1 and …
Anti-nuclear activists under the aegis of Solidarity Council supporting Kudankulam anti-nuclear movements began a vehicle march to Kudankulam from here on Sunday morning. They demand that the Kerala government should take a stand on the nuclear power plant coming up at Kudankulam as Tamil Nadu government had done. They note …
The district panchayat will, on Wednesday, launch a comprehensive project with the objective of making Pathanamthitta waste-free. At a press conference here on Tuesday, Babu George, panchayat president, said the project, called Zero-Waste Pathanamthitta, would be implemented in association with the 54 grama panchayats, eight block panchayats, and three municipalities …
The courtyard of Retnamma’s house resembles a battlefield. There are dead giant snails strewn around, slime oozing from their brown conch-shaped shells. “These are the ones I killed last night with salt,” says the 60-year-old resident of Konni village in the foothills of the Western Ghats in Kerala. “I was …
PATHANAMTHITTA: The Rotary Club of Thiruvalla has launched a series of charity schemes for the poor in the past one year, president Varghese Thomas Kalaikattil has said. He was presiding over the inaugural function of a drinking water supply scheme implemented by the club at Kaviyyor panchayat on Wednesday. The …
PATHANAMTHITTA: Making Kerala the first totally electrified State in India is the mission of the Left Democratic Front government, A.K. Balan, Minister for Electricity, has said. He was inaugurating the work on the 33-kV electrical substation at Poozhikkad near Pandalam on Monday. As many as 79 of the 140 Assembly …
