KOLLAM: Ombudsman for Local Self-Government Institutions M.R.Hariharan has ordered the Kollam Corporation not to fell the remaining 42 trees that had been left after large-scale felling of trees by the Corporation for the widening of the Kappalandimukku-Asramam Muneeswarankoil road here.
KOLLAM: Kollam is getting ready to have a full-fledged observatory with international standards, in the International Year of Astronomy (2009). It will be set up at the initiative of the All-Kerala Astro Sciences Society (AKAS).
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Livestock Development Board (KLDB), a State Government undertaking, is starting a technical consultancy targeting grassroot level dairy farmers as well as prospective big investors in the State
KOLLAM: Pravasi Bharatheeya Puraskar winner and industrialist B. Ravi Pillai said that the global economic crisis would start affecting India from 2009.
KOLLAM: The Kollam Corporation authorities began felling avenue trees on the Kappalandimukku-Ashramam road in Kollam on Thursday as part of converting the road into four-lane amidst resistance from environmentalists.
Two employees engaged by the Corporation and KSUDP officials began chopping the trees from 10.30 a.m.
KOLLAM: Based on the Forest Rights Act approved by the Union Government, forest rights committees will be set up in the district on August 3. A meeting chaired by District Collector A.Shajahan has taken a decision in this regard.
The Act envisages to provide rights on the dwelling places of those people, including Scheduled Tribes, in the forest land in which they had been living traditionally.
Sasthamkotta Lake is Kerala's biggest fresh water lake. The lake is facing degradation due to anthropogenic activities such as directing human waste, soil erosion due to destruction of vegetation and dumping of waste from hotels and slaughterhouses. The water samples from different stations were analysed from a period March 2006 to August 2006 to investigate the water quality parameters.
A tsunami museum, the first of its kind in India, has been opened at Alappad village in Kerala's Kollam district. It aims to educate people about the risks of tsunamis and to commemorate those who
