KOCHI: As the waste menace is continuing to be a major headache for residents and authorities, the newly formed Thrikkakara Municipality is planning to initiate steps to tackle the issue.
With an aim to boost to exports of ornamental fish in the country, Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), has finalised the guidelines on green certification.
On Thursday, the water treatment plant in Aluva near here suspended its operations for more than five hours during the early hours of the day after finding a considerable rise in salinity levels that had reached the magnitude of 1,700 p.p.m (particles per million).
A delay in constructing a temporary bund in Purappillykkavu near Paravoor to prevent the intrusion of salinity in the Periyar is po
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink, aptly sums up the situation in West Kochi area which is reeling under severe water shortage even before the onset of summer. Surrounded by water bodies, the scarcity of potable water in West Kochi is not just ironic but also tragic.
The slew of water projects that has been implemented in the area is yet to quench the thirst of West Kochi.
Exotic fish varieties will not be introduced in reservoirs as part of the reservoir fisheries programme, said P. Krishnaiah, Chief Executive Officer, National Fisheries Development Board.
Talking to mediapersons here on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Aquaculture and giant prawn conference, Mr.
A caution sounded by the Forest Department against permitting vehicles through forest routes was disregarded and this resulted in the Pulmedu stampede, forest officials said on Sunday.
The authorities had successfully enforced a ban on vehicles through the forest routes some four years ago for the safety of pilgrims.
The Kerala Forest Department will suggest a ban on vehicular traffic through forest routes and restrictions on pilgrims' inflow into the Sabarimala temple in the wake of the Pulmedu accident that claimed 102 lives, informed sources said.
The vehicular traffic along the hardly five-metre-wide forest route to Pulmedu shot up on days close to Makaravilakku, which fell on January 14.
