Metro: 1.7 ha land to be acquired
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) have nearly arrived at an agreement on the proposed widening of the Edapally-Aluva NH stretch, for which a total of 1
Corp eyes Rs 2 cr tax
The weak Kochi Corporation exchequer may see a couple of crores flow in with its new proposal to levy 75 per cent service tax on all government buildings in the city.
The civic body will introduce t
Watchman murdered
A 70-year-old watchman was found brutally murdered at the house of a noted Supreme Court advocate in Netoor near here early Tuesday.
The watchman, Mada-thichira Bose, was found choked to death with d
Sreedharan factor daunts Kochi metro
It appears that the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has almost decided not to take up the Kochi Metro Rail project because it has too much work on hand already.
Sources close to the project say that th
No night vigil at disaster cell
The delay in appointing a technical expert for night service at the Ernakulam district disaster management cell has drawn flak from many quarters.
The cell co-ordinates rescue services in the city w
It’s free entry to North
Unauthorised multiple entrances, as many as seven, are posing a security threat to the North railway station.
It’s literally a cake walk for anyone to make an unauthorized entry into the station as c
LPG agencies violating norms
Aggravating the LPG crisis, some distributor agencies of the Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) appear to be ignoring the queue system and supplying the cylinders to their more favoured customers.
The tran
Facebook brings missing boy back to parents
A 15-year-old Malayalee boy who has been missing since September 4 from his school in Bengaluru was found in a hotel in Yelahanka in Karnataka on Monday.
It was a college student in Yelahanka who saw
New walkway on a fast lane
The second phase of the walkway under construction at Marine Drive will be opened on December 20.
The work on the 700-m long new walkway stretching up to the Goshree Bridge is nearing completion, sa
Prepaid counters for autos vanish
The system of hiring pre-paid autos seems to have gone haywire, going by what’s happening in the city these days.
While commuters have been quite comfortable with this facility, the ground reality i