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.

1. STICKING TO A CAUSE
Chipko Movement, 1973

The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources

The National Highways Authority of India faces 255 cases of disputes regarding land acquisition in Kerala

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The report submitted by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) on the impact of the global economic crisis on the state has confirmed the worst fears. The fallout from the burst of the housing bubble in the United States has shaken the foundations of the state economy.

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.