An expert committee will study the allegation of pollution levelled against the Nitta Gelatin India Limited (NGIL) at Kathikudam, Industries Minister Elamaram Karim has said.

He was briefing the media here on Tuesday after chairing a meeting of the representatives of the company, action council, various political parties, trade unions, Pollution Control Board, district administration and the po

All panchayats in the district will be asked to install a Plastic Shredding Unit as part of the ongoing Mass Action for Plastic-waste-free Kozhikode, (MAP), District Collector P.B. Salim has said.

Addressing newspersons at the Collectorate conference hall here on Tuesday, Dr.

Indian Statistical Institute Director Bimal K.

A State-level project to protect sacred groves will be launched here on February 2, District Collector P.

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The State government has sanctioned Rs.1.13 crore for the Ashraya project in Wayanad district.

As many as 366 destitute Scheduled Tribes families in five panchayats would be rehabilitated using the money, the district coordinator of Kudumbasree Mission, which is implementing the project, said here on Monday.

A caution sounded by the Forest Department against permitting vehicles through forest routes was disregarded and this resulted in the Pulmedu stampede, forest officials said on Sunday.

The authorities had successfully enforced a ban on vehicles through the forest routes some four years ago for the safety of pilgrims.

The Kerala Forest Department will suggest a ban on vehicular traffic through forest routes and restrictions on pilgrims' inflow into the Sabarimala temple in the wake of the Pulmedu accident that claimed 102 lives, informed sources said.

The vehicular traffic along the hardly five-metre-wide forest route to Pulmedu shot up on days close to Makaravilakku, which fell on January 14.

On January

Environmentalist Medha Patkar has expressed doubts about the accuracy of the Central Water Commission's reported assessment of water availability for the proposed Athirappilly hydel project.

She told reporters here on Sunday that the CWC had always taken sides with pro-dam lobbies.

K. Muraleedharan has urged the Union Ministry of Agriculture to intervene and impose a complete ban on Endosulfan in the plantations run by the Kerala State Plantation Corporation. Inaugurating the Malabar Region Anti-Endosulfan Convention here recently, he sought a proper study by the National Institute of Occupational Health in this regard.

The pesticide as banned in the State when A.K.