Contract awarded to city-based firm

Slight increase in infant mortality rate
A Keralite, on an average, has the life span of a U.S. citizen as the State ranks high in all health indicators compared to other States in the country. But the declining child sex ratio shows the State in bad light despite the fairly good overall sex ratio, United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) consultant for Kerala and Tamil Nadu N.S.

No amusement park is complete without a bumper car ride. Visitors, young and old, enjoy the experience of wheeling around crazily, bumping into other cars at will.

With water theme parks coming up all over the State, the concept of a bumper boat ride became relevant.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the Assembly on Tuesday that he would write to all school headmasters seeking their support for a government drive to free school neighbourhoods from pan masala and other tobacco products.

Responding to a calling attention moved by M.P.

Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has recommended a

Forest Department report on Nelliampathy Hills

: The Forest Department, in its report to the government, has said

NTPC Ltd., formerly the National Thermal Power Corporation, is venturing outside its known territory of operation - generation of thermal energy - by exploring wind energy possibilities.

Union Minister of State for Power K.C.

The State Assembly on Monday referred to its Subject Committee the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland (Amendment) Bill, 2011, seeking to empower village officers with the authority to take action against those flouting the provisions of the original Act of 2008.

Director of Health Services reviews fever situation
The Health Department has directed its health supervisors to strengthen disease prevention and control activities at the field-level as viral fevers, including dengue and H1N1 cases, may go up as the monsoon intensifies.

The Director of Health Services (DHS) convened a meeting on Friday to review the epidemic situation in various districts.

Bombay Natural History Society has conducted the survey in wildlife sanctuaries in and around the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
A field survey on the vulture population in the wildlife sanctuaries in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and adjacent sanctuaries, conducted by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), has found that the number of these bird species is declining at an alarming rate in the reg