Residents oppose fresh projects
Local residents and green activists are pressing for a fresh moratorium on new industrial projects in the critically polluted areas of Eloor-Edayar and Ambal-amugal in Greater Kochi.
Though the minis
‘My city my pride’ launched
Students from 54 schools in the city limits took a pledge to keep the city clean and to practice better waste management on Mond-ay.
As part of the city corporation’s sanitation campaign ‘My City My
More mobile towers on coast
The Kochi police are keen to strengthen the mobile phone network at sea, and to this end are preparing to hold talks with private mobile network providers in the state for installing more mobile tower
A speedboat ride from Fort Kochi to Vyttila!
If all goes well, passengers commuting between Fort Kochi and Vyttila will be able to cover the distance in a speed boat in half-an-hours.
To provide water connectivity to the world-class mobility h
Poor infrastructure in Kochi drives away tourists
The Corporation of Kochi seems to have no foresight. I am a foreigner living in Kochi for the past 6 years.
I hear more and more tour operators are opting to promote other destinations in India beca
‘Biennale will link myth of Muziris with Kochi’
Internationally-acclaimed artists showcasing their work at the Kochi Muziris Biennale being held in December have started descending on the city. DC catches up with artist Jyoti Basu.
Why Kochi when
More developing, more unsafe
While the city may be set on the track to fast development, it is becoming increasingly unsafe for women who are now targeted more than before, says the Centre for Gender, Development and Ecology (S
Kochi moots health flying squad
The city corporation plans to launch a health flying squad to monitor sanitation, drinking water quality and waste treatment in various places within the city limits.
The squad will have four mobile
GCDA kicks off Vision 2030
To launch fast-growing Kochi into the global metroscape, the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) on Monday came out with ‘Vision 2030’, aimed mainly at bolstering the feeble infrastructure of
Flexibility in fund utilisation
The government’s decision to give local bodies more flexibility in plan fund utilisation has been welcomed by panchayats and municipalities.
“The new decision will definitely help local bodies in