DTDC Express Ltd has launched 'Vallam Express', a waterway-based last-mile delivery service for communities in Kerala’s backwaters where roads are absent. The service starts in Kuttanad, Alappuzha, covering 14 villages with a…
District Collector Shaji V Nair has declared a holiday on Monday, August 10, for all educational institutions in Kuttanad taluk, Alappuzha district, due to waterlogging from heavy rain. The order covers professional…
A political controversy has erupted in flood-hit Kuttanad over the Thottappally spillway, with the CPI(M) and DYFI alleging delay in removing sandbar and debris that hampers water discharge. A ministerial team visited…
Kuttanad’s ecological crisis follows decades of interventions that have altered its natural hydrology, fisheries, flood regulation and wetland ecology, according to a commentary published by Mongabay-India. Kerala’s below-sea-level rice fields, canals and…
