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Kasargod
Demand for endosulfan tribunal
Issue Date: Sep 24, 2010
A division bench of the Kerala High Court on September 13 admitted a writ petition that sought the constitution of a tribunal to identify endosulfan victims in Kasaragod and paying compensation to them. The writ petition was filed on the same day.
Kerala village sees off bauxite mining
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2008
Villagers in Kinnanore in Kerala's Kasaragod district called off a month-long agitation against bauxite mining. They relented on January 12 after Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan assured them that the sanction to the mines would be revoked. "The people, the panchayat and the political parties do not want this project," said Achuthanandan.
Crime bureau cleared
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2006
on july 20, 2006, the Union cabinet finally approved a bill introduced in 2005 to amend the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. The amendment will incorporate the much-awaited recommendations made by the Tiger Task Force set up in 2005 by the prime minister. It asked for statutory and administrative powers for the Project Tiger Directorate and creation of a Wild Life Crime Control Bureau under the wildlife act.
The cabinet also approved amendments to the Right to Information Act, 2005 (see: Partial access).
LIES, DAMN LIES AND ENDOSULFAN
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2004
At Down To Earth (DTE) we believe that truth withheld is truth denied. Fresh evidence suggests a web of lies and deceit was weaved to declare that the pesticide endosulfan is not responsible for the horrendous mutations and ailments that many in the villages of Kerala's Kasaragod district are suffering from. These villagers, living in the shadow of cashew plantations, have been exposed to the toxin which was sprayed aerially for more than two decades.
THERE IS NO JUSTICE
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2004
At Padpu, Padre village, Kasargod district, Kerala, there is a ritual every November to honour the snake god. Many in the area also believe that the ritual celebrates the origin of the Kodenkeri thodu (stream) in a patch of sacred forests near Padre, right beneath the cashew plantation-rich hills of Kasargod.
International journal vindicates endosulfan study
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2003
the strong case against endosulfan just got stronger. Environmental Health Perspectives (ehp), a peer-reviewed scientific journal of international repute, has published the Ahmedabad-based National Institute of Occupational Health's (nioh) damning research on the organochlorine pesticide in its December 2003 issue.
Going overboard
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2003
The nexus between the Rs 4100-crore pesticide industry and the government was in evidence again recently as the Pesticides Association of India (PAI) took up the cudgels for O P Dubey, the head of an eight-member expert committee that gave a clean chit to organochlorine pesticide endosulfan.
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Issue Date: Aug 31, 2003
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Endosulfan declared not guilty
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2003
here's good news for the ever manipulative pesticide industry: the Dubey committee -- a panel of experts set up by the Registration Committee (rc) of the Central Insecticides Board -- has concluded that endosulfan is not responsible for the health problems prevalent in Kasaragod district of Kerala.
Muddy and misleading
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2002
STATUS OF
ENDOSULFAN IN KERALA: THE FACTS
Brought out by Pesticides Manufactures and Formulators Association of India (PMFAI) in The
New Indian Express . Trivandrum . September 4 .
2002
