The Cabinet on Wednesday proposed a comprehensive project to clean up the Karamana and Kill Rivers in Thiruvananthapuram city and prevent flooding of its banks.

The government is working towards achieving zero waste stage in residential habitats in urban and rural areas.

Shops and trading establishments remained closed in Idukki, Ernakulam, Alappuzha and Kottayam districts on Tuesday in response to a call for hartal by Kerala Congress (Mani) and Kerala Congress (Ja

Hartal demanding decommissioning of reservoir total in Idukki district

Kerala saw widespread protests on the Mullaperiyar dam issue on Monday, with people agitating for its decommissioning in five districts and the State capital.

Protests are mounting in Kerala over the Mullaperiyar dam issue.

The international phase-out of endosulfan with certain exemptions under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants will come into effect by the end of October next year.

Kerala government is in a fix with the National Human Rights Commission issuing notice to the State government for non-payment of adequate compensation to victims of pesticide endosulfan in Kasarag

Kerala has become the first State to form biodiversity management committees in all panchayats.

The committee, chaired by the panchayat president, is to ensure conservation of biodiversity and use and equitable sharing of benefits from it.
The committee has been formed in all 978 grama panchayats by October and will come into being in 60 municipalities and five city corporations in two months. With this, Kerala would become the first State to have such committees in all local self-government institutions.

The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to depute a three member committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary K. Jayakumar to study the farmers’ suicides in Wayanad district.

Thiruvananthapuram faces high risk from Kudankulam nuclear plant and people of the city will have to be evacuated if an explosion occurs at Kudankulam nuclear plant, T.