Category: City News

Dumping of waste triggers recurrent waterlogging in NH Bypass

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TrivandrumLife.com When National Highway Authority of India began widening of NH 66, it planned open drains for the corridor, an error for which it will be regretting. Soon after the construction of drains on either sides of the main carriageway, several miscreants found it as an ideal spot to dump waste.   Ever since construction of drain was completed in the national highway from Kazhakoottam to Mukkola, NHAI is troubled by the frequent dumping of waste, including poultry waste into the drain. The illegal dumping of waste is the major reason behind water logging of several stretches in the national highway, prominently at Chackai and Enchakkal.  During…

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High time for Operation Anantha – II

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TrivandrumLife  City witnessed flash floods and water logging at several places on Friday.  It seems to be just a trailer of what is ahead in the upcoming south west monsoon season.  Despite the miseries, flash floods bring back memories of the effort of one person – our own Action Hero Biju.  Yes! our former collector and current social justice secretary Biju Prabhakar IAS.  A team led by the then collector Biju Prabhakar and the then chief secretary Jiji Thomson was behind the famous Operation Anantha, which saved the core areas of the city from flash floods for the…

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Bracing for monsoon, Kerala steps up disease surveillance

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TrivandrumLife.com>> With the South-West monsoon expected to arrive in Kerala by the first week of June, the state’s public health machinery has been put in top gear to cope with the seasonal incidence of communicable diseases, without slackening the COVID-19 containment efforts. Apart from equipping the network of hospitals under the Department of Health and Family Welfare, down to the primary health centre level, to cope with the situation, public contact and disease surveillance programmes have also been stepped up. The thrust of the campaign is to make people aware…

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Tharoor arranges metal detector-thermal imaging camera for Trivandrum central

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Thermal Metal detector at Trivandrum Airport

TrivandrumLife.com>> With the support of Shashi Tharoor MP, the Trivandrum Central railway station has got door frame metal detector with thermal imaging camera, a first of its kind to be erected in a public place in the country. Known as DFMD, this facility is suitable to screen passengers at the time of Covid 19.   The DFMD was donated by Prama Hikvision India under its corporate social responsibility programme based on the request of Chandran Tharoor foundation. The DFMD has been handed over to district collector K Gopalakrishnan and Thiruvananthapuram division of southern Railway.   Earlier…

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Special train departs from Trivandrum central

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Special train to New Delhi from Trivandrum

TrivandrumLife.com>> A day when special train carrying people stranded in other states arrived Trivandrum Central, another one carrying people from the state started its journey to New Delhi. Train number 02431 Nizamuddin express started from Central railway station at 7.45 pm on May 15. The train has 295 passengers of which 112 are women. Around 299 persons had booked for the journey. Two without valid pass and two who had technical issues in the ticket were excluded from the list. All passengers were subjected to medical screening before the journey.…

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Monsoon to arrive on June 5

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India Meteorological department (IMD) has predicted onset of monsoon in Kerala, the gateway of south west monsoon in the country, by June 5. This is a slight delay from the normal onset date of June 1. The IMD expects a model error of +/- 4 days. In 2019, the date of onset was June 8 while IMD’s forecast was June 6. In 2018, monsoon hit the state on May 29 exactly in tune with IMD’s prediction.  South west monsoon was devastating in the last two years when the state experienced the worst floods…

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No Covid 19 hotspots in Thiruvananthapuram

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TrivandrumLife.com>> As the number of active Covid 19 cases in the district fell to zero, around 12 wards in the district were removed from the new list of hotspots. Wards such as Aralumoodu, Puthanambalam, Moonnukallinmoodu, Koottappana, Pallivilakam, Nilamel, Alumoodu, Town, Brahmankode, Athiyannoor and Vazhimukku wards in Neyyatinkara municipality and ward number 16 and 17 from Varkala municipality were the places removed from the latest list of hotspots. Currently, no Covid 19 patients are under treatment in the district. However, around 43 persons are in treatment for various Covid-related symptoms. There…

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Special train reaches Trivandrum Central

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TrivandrumLife.com>> The New Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram train with 380 passengers has arrived in Central Railway station by around 5.15 am on Friday. Among the 380 passengers arrived, 131 were from Thiruvananthapuram districts and 74 from Pathanamtitta. There were 58 persons from Tamil Nadu. District collector K Gopalakrishnan said that a Pathanamtitta native who arrived from Mumbai with high temperature was admitted to general hospital. Three were sent for institutional quarantine and others were directed to observe home quarantine. The district administration had made elaborate arrangements to screen the passengers. The health department…

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Woman delivers within hours of reaching home from Riyadh

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For Reena Thomson it was a risky journey to fly home all the way from the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh to Kozhikode as she was in an advanced stage of pregnancy. Thanks to the doctors and health care workers who took care of her, within hours of reaching her home town Chittur in Palakkad, Reena gave birth to a baby boy, proving her decision a well taken one.  Hospital authority informed that both Mother and baby keeping well and safe. Trivandrum Lifetrivandrumlife.com

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Kerala Tourism launches online portal for NRKs

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Kerala Tourism has launched an online platform that enables non-residents to book vehicles of tour operators to travel back to the state,ending the stalemate due to a national lockdown clamped seven weeks ago to fight COVID-19. Keralites stranded in other parts of the country can submit enquiries to tour/transport operator through the department’s website www.keralatourism.org. The tour operator will get (by email) the NRK’s requirements and contact details. Simultaneously, the NRK will get the enquiry number and relevant information about the preferred travel company. The mutual interaction can help fix the…

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