THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kozhikode is all set to become the first hunger-free city in the country. For, the Social Welfare Department has embarked on a unique mission to provide free meals to the needy.

The Social Security Mission project, constituted by the Government for the care of the poor, aged, children, women and cancer patients, will be launched on January 26.

KOCHI: The demand for cleaning up the Kurur canal in Kothamangalam, which is in a bad condition due to the dumping of garbage for several years, gained national importance after hundreds of NCC cadets from various colleges in the country staged a rally seeking immediate action to restore the canal.

KOLLAM: Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran said that selling drinking water was not the policy of the Government.

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in association with the district administration and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) will implement a unique SAFE I- Project, said District Collector M Beena at a press conference here on Friday.

The novel project aims at bringing down hospital-borne infections by ensuring safe injection and thereby decreasing iatrogenic diseases.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Four deaths have been reported owing to Diphtheria, three owing to Dengue Fever and 112 following Weil

KOCHI: Though the city residents are trying their best in learning to live with mosquitoes, the scare of spreading dengue fever is scaling up.

Though the Corporation put two autorickshaw- mounted fogging machines out in Mattanchery and Ernakulam areas, the service has not yet reached all divisions.

KOCHI: To save the city from the menace of plastic waste, the district administration and the Kochi Corporation in association with the Kudumbasree units are planning to launch a new plastic waste management project.

As per the project, the Kudumbasree members will collect the plastic waste from houses and shops. The collected waste will be used for recycling and road tarring works.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Behind the high walls of the Poojappura Central Prison, a green revolution is in the making. Three acres of prison land are now all set for cultivating paddy.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Karshaka Congress, a feeder organisation of the Congress, has demanded that the Indian National Congress(INC) should adopt the Kerala model of Kisan Congress in other states as early as possible in order to address the issues of farmers.

K Jayaprakash

KOCHI: The plastic mounts at Sabarimala have been a nagging problem for the Travancore Devaswom Board and the state government alike. But, this trash is an invaluable treasure. It can be converted into diesel in the next 5-10 years and till then the waste can be kept in the form of buildings, compound walls, water tanks etc.