Kerala to amend groundwater act KERALA is planning to amend legislation to check extraction of its overexploited groundwater. Five of the 50 blocks in the state are over-extracted, 15 critical and 30 semi-critical, according to a 2004 survey by the Central Ground Water Board and the state ground water department. A sub-committee of the state Ground Water Authority, which

K Jayaprakash, SABARIMALA: Hold your nose. It

Additional Chief Secretary K. Jayakumar inaugurating the first joint annual meeting of Central Ground Water Board and Kerala State Ground Water Depart

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The rate of cancer occurrence in Kerala is much lower compared to Western countries, but still 35,000 cancer cases are being reported in a year in the state. Out of this, 10,000 cases are registered in the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Forest Department will arrange various facilities for Sabarimala pilgrims, clearing forests in the Ranni division and the Periyar Tiger Reserve.

Kerala Forest Minister Benoy Viswom said here on Tuesday the grasslands at Uppupara would be cleared through controlled burning to provide space for pilgrims to view the

M K Sunil Kumar, KOCHI: The cases of leptospirosis (rat fever) and malaria have gone up in the district with the

GM herbs knock on the doors of Ayurveda.

Jipson Sikhera.Reema Narendran
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: This can happen only in Kerala. A crocodile park with zero births this millennium. This barren park is none other than the one at Neyyar, named with much hype and fanfare as the Steve Irwin Crocodile Rehabilitation and Research Centre, after the tragic death of the famed crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin.