Date:01/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/01/stories/2008090155780700.htm

Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram

Cost of development

— Photo: S. Mahinsha

AXED DOWN: The tree in front of the Department of Malayalam, University College, Thiruvananthapuram, being felled on Sunday for widening of M.G. Road. An earlier attempt to cut down the tree had to be abandoned following resistance from environmentalists.