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Medical crises continue to rock the boat
Alappuzha :: India | 2 months ago
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March 17, 2013 The death of a 69-year-old French woman due to cardiac arrest during a night stay in a houseboat here last week has highlighted the need to equip tourism police and fire force officials with facilities to quickly transport tourists in
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High water salinity upsets paddy growers in Kuttanad
Alappuzha :: India | 4 months ago
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January 21, 2013 Even as the pest attack has been brought under control, the new challenge in the form of saline water is looming large over the paddy fields of lower Kuttanad, comprising mainly of paddy fields in Alappuzha and Kottayam districts
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Stark reflections on nature
Mumbai :: India | 7 months ago
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October 18, 2012 The Hindu Kandalkkadu We all need some green in our lives. The sight of a shrub braving the madness of a busy footpath instantly lifts our mood...We know we are in for trouble with global warming and climate change looming large over
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The tree huggers
Mumbai :: India | 12 months ago
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It's easy to just include the tree into the building rather than chop it down. Prince Frederick and Anusha Parthasarathy tell you how From being axed to being in your sitting room, trees have come a long way indeed. Of course, not as far as we would
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Jijo Punnoose: The man who was a film institute unto himself
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 1 year ago
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Here, he talks of the influence of filmmaker Jijo Punnoose on his work I never thought I'd end up becoming a filmmaker. Sure, I was interested in mono-acting and mimicry, Kerala's popular pastime while in school in Kottayam, I had participated in
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Literary fest on Thakazhi's birth centenary
Kannur :: India | 1 year ago
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Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's home in Kuttanad turned into a museum...A week-long literary festival organised by Thakazhi Samaraka Samithi in connection with the birth centenary of the legendary writer and Jnanpith laureate, late Thakazhi Sivasankara
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Study finds alarming rise in pollution in Vembanad lake
Alappuzha :: India | 1 year ago
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Bangalore-based non-governmental organisation, in association with the Lake Protection Forum, an organisation of fishermen, over the first three months of this year on the Vembanad lake has shown that the level of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) has
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Nod for Onattukara part of Kuttanad package
Alappuzha :: India | over 1 year ago
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February 8, 2012 The Onattukara component of the Kuttanad Package, entailing projects worth Rs.248.39 crore for development of the agricultural region, has been accorded approval by the Union Government, Kodikunnil Suresh, MP, has said. In a
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Project to rejuvenate Kolarayar waterway
Pathanāmthitta :: India | over 1 year ago
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December 5, 2011 Kolarayar, a 6.5-km-long, 33-metre-wide dying natural waterway linking Arackal Mukhappu on the Pampa riverbanks at Kadapra with the Areethode stream leading to Pampa at Niranom will soon to get a facelift. The Pulikeezhu block
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On the cusp of change
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | almost 2 years ago
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August 18, 2011 The Hindu A still from Thahaseeldarude Achan.' Thakazhi's Thahaseeldarude Achan,' staged in Thiruvananthapuram, was a textbook adaptation of the litterateur's endearing story. Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai stands for not only an epoch
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