THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Road works in connection with this years Attukal Pongala will be completed by March 4, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here on Tuesday. He was addressing a review meeting on the Pongala arrangements. The Pongala festivities begin on February 28, the Mahotsavam is on March 7 and the festivities would close on March 8.On Tuesday, the State Government had issued orders for releasing Rs 12 crore for undertaking urgent...
09:14:00 AM Feb 23, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The famed marble lotus at the Santhigiri Ashram, Pothencode, will be lit using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) on Tuesday in connection with the Poojithapeetam Samarpanam celebrations. The celebrations will commence with the pushpanjali ceremony at 5 am. The festival flag will be hoisted at 6 am. Finance Minister K M Mani will inaugurate the celebrations at 3 pm at the Spiritual Zone, Ashram officials said. Panchayats and Social Welfare...
11:33:00 AM Feb 21, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The IT@School project has come up with a Resource Portal and YouTube channel to help with the preparations of the SSLC Examination for 4.50 lakh students in the state. A press statement here said that resource portal of IT@School Project www.resource.itschool.gov.in had been packed with contents of Science, Social Science and Mathematics for benefiting students appearing for the SSLC examination commencing next month.The portal has been designed to enable...
11:23:00 AM Feb 20, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thiruvananthapuram will soon turn into an entertainment hub of the country with the Union Government according Special Economic Zone (SEZ) status to the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra) Film and Video Park (KFVP) at Kazhakkoottam. Kinfra Film and Video Park, an ISO 14001: 2004 certified company, is the first Infotainment Industrial Park in the country in a beautifully landscaped area of 75 acres of land. The Park is...
10:46:00 AM Feb 17, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After a high drama and impasse that lasted hours, the residents of Vilappil panchayat foiled the move of the City Corporation and the district administration to transport garbage to the Vilappilsala waste treatment plant on Monday. Hundreds of people had gathered at the Temple Junction on the road leading to the waste treatment plant from 8 am. The slogan-shouting agitators, mostly women and children, then fanned across the road...
10:03:00 AM Feb 14, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: "It is a not a four-year-old fight, but one which started half-a-century ago," says advocate K P Jayachandran, Thiruvananthapuram Bar Association president and Chairman of the Joint Action Council for agitation for the High Court Bench when the second phase of agitation completes four years. Kerala is the only major state in India, other than Madhya Pradesh, which does not have a High Court or a High Court Bench...
08:50:00 AM Feb 13, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The pretty Sanjjanaa, who entered Mollywood with the mega budget Mohanlal starrer 'Casanova', is elated by all the attention she has been garnering in Kerala over the last few months. Sanjjanaa who forayed into acting with her super-sensuous act in 'Ganda Hendathi', the Kannada version of the Hindi flick 'Murder' plays a Dubai-based plucky salsa dancer, 'Nidhi', in 'Casanova'. The fact that the Bangalore-based actress was sharing screen time...
07:13:56 PM Feb 07, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Janakeeya Samara Samithi on Monday said a big no to the garbage vehiclesfrom the City Corporation entering the Vilappil panchayat and asked the State Government to implement the decision taken on December 21, 2011, to close down the Vilappilsala garbage treatment plant. This was announced in the presence of a mass delegation from the panchayat which sat in front of the Secretariat raising these demands as the five-day...
10:03:00 AM Jan 31, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A drainage burst has been causing intense hardships to shopkeepers and residents on the busy Padmavilasom Road, which is just a stones throne away from the high-profile Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple. On Saturday evening, the drain pipe burst again, plump in the middle of the road, spewing out waste water and a horrible stench. Many shopkeepers even downed shutters early on Saturday owing to this. Repeated complaints have fallen...
11:13:00 AM Jan 30, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A twenty-member Israeli team including four children has visited Santhigiri ashram on Wednesday. For the elderly among the team, it was a nostalgic visit to the state as they were Malayalees by birth. It was 58 years back that these Jews had migrated to Israel along with their families as part of their decision to settle down in the promised land. Majority of them were visiting their birth place...
11:54:33 AM Jan 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Acclaimed film director Priyadarsan Wednesday said he was elated on hearing that he has been awarded Padma Shri, and added that the honour has 'come at the right time'. "I am really elated because I think it has come at the right time," Priyadarsan told IANS over phone from Chennai. The 54-year-old veteran's film career spans close to three decades and 86 films in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and Telegu....
03:44:42 PM Jan 25, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Malayalam actor-cum-script writer Sreenivasan has refuted media reports that his latest film 'Padmasree Bharath Dr Saroj Kumar' shows superstar Mohanlal in poor light. Sreenivasan plays the lead role in the film. Since the film's release a week back, he has time and again said that it told a tale in simple humour. "This film is not at all a second part or a sequel of the block buster 'Udayanannu...
11:39:09 AM Jan 23, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: If rebellion had a face, it would without doubt be that of Che Guevara - the windblown hair, sharp eyes with a look of exceptional determination and a mouth curling into defiance. To see that face real-time and to talk to this ultimate revolutionary would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that no journalist would want to miss. So it was with E R Gopinath, then a bright young journalist based...
12:16:13 PM Jan 20, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The British deputy high commission is all set to open a sub-centre here to give a boost to trade and tourism, says a Kerala official, with tourists from Britain accounting for a fourth of international visitors to the state. The new office comes at a time when the tourism department has come out with tentative figures for tourist arrivals for 2011. Rani George, the Kerala tourism director, said the...
03:22:44 PM Jan 19, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Some leading practitioners of ayurveda will speak on various facets of the traditional form of medicine at the global festival, starting here on Feb 9, organisers said. The six-day event will see participation of more than 2,500 practitioners of ayurveda and students from various colleges. "Through this festival, students will be taught the basic principles of ayurveda. More than 120 papers will be presented and 17 ayurveda colleges in...
05:33:38 PM Jan 17, 2012
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