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Centre weighed down by plant-protection cost
Package for victims may be more costly
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Centre government is ruling out a national ban on Endosulfan or support for the cause at the Stockholm Convention on the ground that no cheap alternatives to Endosulfan are available to farmers.

ALAPPUZHA: Senior Congress leader V.M.

KASARAGOD: Mothers cried recounting the plight of their children affected by Endosulfan in parts of the district at a protest meeting here on Tuesday seeking a ban on the pesticide.

The meeting, held ahead of the conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants scheduled from April 25 in Geneva, was hosted by the Endosulfan Victims' Support Aid Group (ENVISAG),

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala, on Monday, wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to ensure that India took a strong stand on banning Endosulfan at a conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants beginning in Geneva on April 25.

He said in his letter that Kerala and Karnataka had banned the pesti

KASARAGOD: The media have not adequately projected the hazards of prolonged aerial spraying of Endosulfan in the Plantation Corporation of Kerala's cashew estates in the district, says media critic A.

Attappady tribes accuse department of helping windmill companies
PALAKKAD: Tribal people have alleged that the Forest Department has been encroaching upon their land at Kottathara in Attappady, where some windmill companies had earlier allegedly tried to usurp their property.

As in the local body elections last September, during the latest Assembly elections, they say, the department had been

KOCHI: A comprehensive wildlife census covering all the forest areas in the State will be carried out soon. The census, which is likely to begin next month, is expected to give a clear indication regarding the wildlife wealth of the State. The latest survey comes after a gap of nine years.

It was in 2002 that such a survey was held in the State last.

KASARAGOD: Narayana Naik, 70, whose name was on the official list of victims of Endosulfan sprayed on cashew estates in 11 panchayat limits in the district, died of liver complications in his house at Bedirampalla, near Perla, on Monday, official sources here said. He had been undergoing prolonged treatment for a mysterious disease.

Project will cause serious environmental damage: forum
Memorandum submitted to Jairam Ramesh
Land already acquired without EIA, alleges forum
Thiruvananthapuram: The Watchdog Committee on Climate Change, a people's forum for conducting studies on climate change and ecological issues related to livelihood and protection of the environment, has urged the Ministry of Environment and Forests to ord