KOCHI: As the workers

With varying statistics on the number of kids in child labour (between six to 100 million), the ministry of panchayati raj believes the government needs to follow the Kerala model and use panchayats to track down the status of every child drop-out.

KOCHI:

THRISSUR: Kerala agricultural University (KAU) Vice-Chancellor Viswambharan on Monday ordered an inquiry by a five-member highlevel expert committee into the alleged death of peacocks near the Cashew research Station of the KAU at Madakkathara, near here.

Dean of the College of Veterinary and animal Sciences Dr Nanu will be the chairman of the committee.

COOL, breezy evenings are a virtue of the season. It is a time when city folks hang around shops with their family. Kochi is bustling with shoppers.

PALAKKAD: The state government would complete the acquisition process of the land required for the coach factory in Kanjikode on a fast-track basis so that the work could begin by the end of this year, according to Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: When Subhash Palekar chants the

KOLLAM: Pravasi Bharatheeya Puraskar winner and industrialist B. Ravi Pillai said that the global economic crisis would start affecting India from 2009.

Now it is official. In the January 2009 issue of the Health Physics Journal, researchers from the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), Thiruvananthapuram, and their collaborators have shown that there is no excess cancer risk to people living in the area of high natural background radiation in Kerala from exposure to terrestrial gamma radiation.