Brahmapuram plant was in news when a massive fire had broken out there on March 2 and thereafter, the air quality in the port city of Kochi and neighbouring municipalities and gram panchayats had worsened as they were engulfed in the dense smoke billowing from the garbage dump. Brahmapuram Fire: Days After Major Blaze, Waste Treatment Plant in Kochi Catches Fire Again (Watch Video).
Pinarayi Vijayan's name has gone into record books after becoming the longest serving Chief Minister of Kerala with an uninterrupted tenure when in November last year he won the Assembly polls thus beating C. Achutha Menon, who previously held .
Kerala Chief Minister on Wednesday announced that a special three-tier committee comprising scientific experts will be set up to conduct a probe the waste dump yard fire at Brahmapuram in Kochi .