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KOCHI: The environment panel of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has in its report after the site visit to Pambaimoola recommended that the development of Edakochi has to be addressed through permissible eco-friendly projects in CRZII areas.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala government today renewed its demand for a country wide ban on the use of endosulfan pesticide and wanted the Centre to announce a rehabilitation package to a tune of Rs.100 crores to the persons suffering from the ill-effects of ensulfan in the state.

Replying to a calling attention in the assembly to the problems faced by the people due to the usage of endosulfan in

It has been almost ten years since the garbage treatment plant at Vilappilsala became operational, which proved a boon to the residents of the capital city.

The City Corporation has sought the intervention of the State Government to solve the crisis which has developed after the Vilappil panchayat decided to shut down the Vilappilsala waste treatment plant on Tuesday.

KOCHI: "The PSUs in state are doing well and this proves that the state is fit for industrial development," Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem has said.

He was speaking after inaugurating a seminar on 'Sustainable Development of Kerala' held ahead of the 25th Indian Engineering Congress, conducted by the Institution of Engineers (India), at the IMA House, Kaloor.

He said there was a notion

THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The International Union of Foodworkers (IUF), a global federation of trade unions, on Thursday urged India to support the ban on endosulfan.

Briefing the media after a three-day Asia-Pacific regional meeting of agricultural and plantation trade unions here, IUF regional secretary Ma Wei Pin urged India to support the inclusion of endosulfan in the Stockholm Convention.

THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The State Cabinet on Wednesday decided to form a directorate for environment and climate change by restructuring the existing environment management agency.

THIRUVANATHAPURAM: A crisis management committee, comprising Ministers, which 'felt' that all-weather roads are the need of the hour in the State, decided to set up a high-level expert committee to study the matter.

The committee, which met here on Wednesday to discuss the battered state of roads, also set a new deadline to complete the road maintenance works to make them 'worth travelling on'.

THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The fight against endosulfan in the state has got encouragement from Malaysia with the Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) urging its Indian counterparts to lead the agitation against the pesticide. MTUC general secretary R. Jai Kumar, addressing the INTUC in Thiruvananthapuram, said farm labourers were falling victims to such pesticides.

THRISSUR: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has urged the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) scientists to formulate a naturefriendly package of practices to stimulate organic enrichment of soil.

Addressing a conclave of the scientists from KAU, Central Plantation Crops Research Institute(CPCRI), Spices Research Centre, and Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council Keralam (VFPCK), at a