3 touts held for admission racket
The Kochi police on Wednesday held three people on charges of swindling lakhs from several people, by offering admissions in engineering and medical colleges in Chennai and Bengaluru.
The arrested we
Sand robbers back to business
Despite knowing about the unabated illegal sand mining in and around Ernakulam, the district authorities and the police officials are able to do very little to check it.
According to sources, severa
2 held for killing homoeo doctor
The Kochi police on Wednesday arrested two Jharkhand residents on the charge of killing a homoeo doctor from Thoppumpady two-and-a-half years ago.
The arrested were identified as Santhosh Mahatho an
Inter-state gang held for fake guarantee
Four natives of Tamil Nadu and a Keralite were held by the Kochi police on Wednesday morning for producing fake bank guarantee worth Rs 10 crore at the M.G Road branch of Central Bank of India.
The
Builders find substitute in m-sand
Builders say they are discouraging the use of river sand in constructions and maximising the use of m-sand for the same.
John Thomas, secretary, Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations o
Honey traps dot social websites
Tricksters and anti-social elements are increasingly using social networking sites to trap the gullible. The latest additions to this side of Facebook, for instance, are groups that offer phone number
Kerala’s dashing duo
Though their I-League expectations took a beating with Chirag United Kerala being downgraded, Usman Ashik and Shyjumon can dream of playing for India, if they are selected from the ongoing national ca
International workshop on conditioning
An international workshop on strength and conditioning of athletes will be held at Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education in Thiruvananthapuram from May 24 to 26.
It is the first of its ki
Mayor praises enzyme tech
The innovative enzyme technology used as part of a trial clean-up project to de-pollute and detoxify the Ernakulam market canal was a big success, said mayor Tony Chammany.
In a review meeting conven
Tankers to supply water in Eloor
In the wake of the Kerala Water Authority’s findings that the drinking water supplied from FACT’s water treatment plant was highly contaminated and not good for drinking, the Eloor municipal council h