
Plea against film making in Malampuzha reservoir
The Hindu
Rights activist allege contamination of water source
The Irrigation Department has asked the crew of a film production company shooting in the Malampuzha Dam reservoir to suspend their work for a week following complaints of rules violation and potential contamination of the dam water. In his complaint, rights activist Raymond Antony pointed out that a large set for film shooting was being prepared inside the reservoir at South Malampuzha. A road was being made by dumping more than 30 loads of soil, he said.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











