Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has recommended a

Kochi Corporation will seek legal action against the agency that dumped a container full of chicken feet at the lake near Edakochi if it does not remit the fine within the stipulated time.

KOCHI: The revised fund allocation for the Meenachil River Valley project in the state budget is a clear indication that Finance Minister K M Mani wants to go ahead with the proposal that is supposed to serve the irrigation purpose of Pala and Irattupetta.

But the local bodies in the neighbouring districts have come up with protest against the implementation of the project.

The Meenachil Riv

Decision pending on allowing civic body to use dumping yard
Conflicting positions aired by different stakeholders threaten to worsen the waste management problems faced by the Thrikkakara municipality.

The municipality is obviously relaxed over the State government's decision to allow it to use the garbage yard of the Kochi Corporation at Brahmapuram.

Plan to use plastic as fuel in high temperature cement kilns
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) is planning to introduce the use of non-recyclable plastic waste as an alternate fuel in high temperature cement kilns with an aim to make cities plastic-free.

Board Chairman K.

Stretch in Kerala ends near Munnar
The Kundanoor Junction-Tripunithura-Bodimettu-Madurai stretch of the NH 49 is to be renovated as a two-lane highway with a 10-metre-wide tarred surface, sources in the PWD (NH wing) that maintains the road, have said.

The portion of the highway passing through Kerala begins from the NH bypass in Kochi and ends at Bodimettu, 33 km beyond Munnar on the Tamil Na

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: What has the rampant levelling of wetlands got to do with increasing energy consumption of Kochiites, especially their use of air-conditioners and air-coolers?

Land yet to be acquired for North bridge expansion
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is readying itself to widen two narrow corridors in the city

Faced with widespread criticism against its solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram, Kochi Corporation has decided to convince the neighbouring civic bodies of the need for a new plant.

Protests are mounting from several neighbouring panchayats and municipalities against the dumping of waste at the plant site and the refusal of the Kochi Corporation authorities to process the waste collected

KOCHI: The Kochi Corporation is playing hide and seek by announcing the launch of Brahmapuram Waste Treatment. Though they have announced the launch of a new plant, the authorities are mum about the functioning of the existing plant where tonnes of waste has accumulated.

The initial plan was to produce manure from the waste but this was not carried out on a large-scale basis.

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