The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) on Thursday filed a petition before the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) virtually seeking a second tariff revision within a matter of two months.
Only in July the commission had issued a tariff order permitting the KSEB to increase the tariffs across the board to net an additional revenue of Rs.1,676.84 crore annually from the power consumers. This tariff hike had nearly bridged an annual revenue gap of less than Rs.1,900 crore the KSEB had projected in its budget for 2012-13 presented before the commission at the start of the year.
The lingering fear that linking the Pampa and the Achencoil rivers in Kerala to the Vaipar in Tamil Nadu will spell disaster in the central Travancore region has come to the fore once again with Monday's Supreme Court verdict in the river interlinking case. The link project has been figuring in the river diversion dreams of neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
The court directed the Union government to constitute immediately a ‘special committee' for interlinking of rivers for the benefit of the entire nation.
The wild elephant population in the Kerala forests has remained stable and healthy between 2007 and 2010, according the 2010 wild elephant census results received by the Forest Department this week
The Western Ghats region in the country, a global biodiversity hotspot, has opened up more of its secrets — this time a dozen species of night frogs hitherto unknown to science.
S.D. Biju of the University of Delhi and researchers from Bombay Natural History Society, Zoological Survey of India and Vrije University in Brussels, published the new finds in the latest issue of the international journal of zoological taxonomy ‘Zootaxa’.
