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.

Anxieties over possibility of the offspring bearing congenital disorders due to Endosulfan poisoning are reportedly forcing women of Kasaragod in Kerala

The controversial Endosulfan is back to haunt coastal villages in Karnataka.

The world will be watching India as the conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention meet in Geneva from April 25 to 29 to discuss, among other things, a global ban on the pesticide endosulfan.

India was the only member country to take a stand against the ban at the Sixth Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Convention that recommended the ban last year.

The state government on Tuesday submitted its objections in the matter related to the ban on the insecticide Endosulfan.

The state government said it banned the insecticide based on the report of the committee which it had formed.

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.