New Delhi: After objecting to the monorail system, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is now planning to build one it seems.

NABARD extending big assistance

The government has sanctioned Rs.1,000 crore for the Public Works Department (PWD) to take up works of road and construction of bridges.The funds have been made available for the Rs.701-crore projects announced in the last budget and for the Rs.291.33-crore road development project being implemented with the financial assistance of NABARD.

Water bodies in Kerala, be they public ponds or public drains, are filled with waste of all conceivable variety round the year. During summer, the waste dumps in the water bodies dry up, leaving nothing but paste-like substance in which mosquitoes breed. Come rains and they hamper the free flow of water, thereby causing flooding in the areas abutting the water bodies.

Chandy to inaugurate World Water Day celebrations today

Launch of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), a digital monitoring system to control the water supply network in the city, will be a highlight of the World Water Day celebrations organised by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) at Kanakakkunnu Palace on Thursday.

Finance Minister K.M. Mani has proposed a two pronged approach to address the state’s worsening waste management crisis with an allocation of Rs 100 crore each for source level waste treatment plants and centralised high tech waste management plants in the state annual budget for 2012-13.

It has been proposed to construct large scale technology oriented waste processing plants in PPP model in Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Kottayam and Kozhikode districts with an allocation of Rs 100 crores.

The luxuriant golden blooms of the ‘Kanikonna' are a heartening sight for one and all. From prosperity to abundance, the blooming of the Cassia fistula is of immense symbolic and cultural significance for Keralites.

The flowering of the golden shower tree signals seasonal changes in the agriculture calendar of the State, heralding the arrival of harvest and ‘Vishu'.
However, for the last few years, the flowering period of Cassia fistula is advancing every passing year.

In a bid to boost solid-waste management at source, the City Corporation has offered a one per cent concession in property tax for households that install solid-waste treatment plants.

Addressing a news conference after the presentation of the 2012-13 budget of the Corporation on Monday, Mayor K. Chandrika said that the tax discount was being offered to encourage installation of decentralised waste management systems in city residences.

Proposal to include medical college in Central scheme

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the State government would spare no efforts in tackling the issue of waste disposal at the Kottayam Medical College hospital. He was speaking on Sunday while launching the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the MCH and inaugurating the Golden Jubilee complex sponsored by the college alumni association.

Disposal of leftover kindling, food key issue

As the city gears up for Attukal Pongala on Wednesday, the City Corporation is swarmed with applications from residents' associations, voluntary organisations as well as individuals residing in the festival zone for organising annadanam (mass free meals) for the devotees offering pongala.

Two major Information Technology (IT) buildings in the State, work on which had been taken up without obtaining the mandatory environment clearance, are among the six ventures that have sought approval from the newly constituted State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC).

The first meeting of SEAC, to be held in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday, will consider the applications of Leela Lace Holdings Pvt. Ltd. (Leela Soft Pvt. Ltd.) at Infopark Special Economic Zone, Kakkanad; Infopark's project at Cherthala; Cyberpark - IT building project at Kozhikod