Kochi film fest to be held from Dec 16-23
The first Kochi international film festival, featuring several renowned movies from across the world, will be held from December 16 to 23.
Kochi Gateway Entertainment and Management Society, chaired
JICA fact- finding team visits Metro station sites
The Japan International Co-operation Agency’s (JICA) fact-finding team, which has arrived here as part of the inspection prior to the funding for the Kochi Metro project, visited the proposed Metro st
Goondas can now be detained for one year
The period of preventive detention is to be extended from six months to one year, as per a state government decision.
This is with a view to giving more teeth to the Kerala Anti-Social Activities (Pr
Runaway bogie halts traffic
A major tragedy was averted when a coach-bogie split from wheel trolley of the Ernakulam-Kayamkulam passenger very close to Alappuzha railway station around 11.30 am on Thursday. There were eight pass
She shows the way in story-telling
“A positive attitude and our goals can be attained,” is what Hannah Alice Simon, a nine-year-old visually-challenged girl of Greets Public School, Kaloor, had to say after winning the second prize in
Kerala lover stands exposed as breeze lifts purdah
A youth from Kannur, accompanying his girl friend disguised as another girl on a city bus in Kochi, gave some interesting moments to the police and the public here as wind played spoilsport and lifted
DYFI against Che slippers
Flip-flops are the latest fashion statement for the youth and they stock as many available variants and designs of V-strapped rubber slippers as possible.
But, in a bizarre twist to the tale, footwe
Principal watches porn at office in Kerala, quits
Dr. R Gireeshan, principal of the Corporative Medical College in Kalamassery, quit after he was allegedly caught by students while watching porn on his office computer.
The resignation came on Wedne
JICA team to hold talks, visit Kochi Metro sites
A 10-member expert team of the Japan International Co-operative Agency which has agreed to extend a loan of Rs 2,170 crore for the Kochi Metro Rail project, arrived in the city late on Wednesday.
The
RoB projects hang fire
The city’s two main projects aimed at easing traffic woes – Atlantis and Pachalam railway overbridges – are hanging fire. Conceived nearly two decades ago, these projects have seen alignment changes.