Demand for coins goes up on Vishu eve
As Vishu, the old Malayalam New Year is just two days away people are queuing up in front of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) counter here to collect fresh coins and currency notes.
Elders giving new
Rolling into success
While flipping over the pages of his lower primary school GK textbook, a child reads, ‘Hockey is our national game’. Suddenly his face lights up and he says, “I also play hockey.’’ Hearing this you ar
Engineers to be asset managers
The Public Works Department would introduce a slew of modernisation measures and its engineers will now act also as managers of public property.
The decisions were taken at a meeting of 350 engineers
Speed up water projects, government told
The city corporation council has decided to seek government’s immediate intervention in resolving the issue of water scarcity in various parts of the city.
The council will exert pressure on state g
Corp. to call tender: Rs 5 crore for city cleaning works
The city corporation has allocated Rs 5 crore for pre-monsoon cleaning works in the city and has completed tender process for these works.
While replying to the debate during council meeting, Mayor
AK Antony says ‘no cover-up, no vendetta’
“No cover-up, and no vendetta,’ is my policy in dealing with complaints regarding defence purchases,” defence minister A.K. Antony said here on Wednesday.
The minister was addressing the media after
Asean to help nurses, techies get jobs abroad
Nurses, techies, teachers and other professionals can have reasons to cheer with the efforts on to include services in the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with member states of the Association of South-Eas
Kochi shakes, people panic
It was 2.10 pm when Kochi’s tall buildings shook with the impact of a mild tremor that lasted five seconds. Tens of thousands of people first felt they were feeling dizzy but soon realised that it was
Seismic scales rising: DC alerted
Is it possible that the state could be hit by a massive earthquake? We’d forewarned the possibility (Danger! State Moving up on the Seismic Zone Scales/December 19, 2011) based on the Bureau of Indian
An evacuation in order at the time of quake
It took an impressive five minutes and 16 seconds for over 200 employees to evacuate their offices on the fourth floor of a building in Kaloor, Kochi as the tremor send waves of panic across the state