The rising number of peacocks around the Kannur International Airport has become a significant safety concern, prompting the aviation authorities to seek urgent solution to the problem. While bird strikes are a known hazard at many airports, the proliferation of peacocks at the Kannur airport poses a unique challenge thanks to the ‘protected status’ of the bird under Schedule 1 …
Former Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala has alleged that the government is deliberately allowing the Kannur International Airport accrue losses so that it can be “donated” to Adani Group. Mr. Chennithala was inaugurating a protest march organised by the Kannur District Congress Committee against the alleged neglect of the airport by the Centre and the State. Mr. Chennithala claimed …
The functioning of the special tahsildar office set up at Mattannur for land acquisition for the Kannur airport has come to a standstill owing to inordinate delay on the part of the government to approve the extension of the term of the office. The State Cabinet has to approve the term of the office, which ended in December last year. …
