Tessy Thomas leads a team of 400 scientists at the DRDO where she has been working for past 20 years. ...
10:27 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Hyderabad: It's been a challenging job for the scientist who is responsible for making the launch of Agni-V successful. Tessy Thomas may be a homemaker to her family but is known as 'Agniputri' to the world for her achievement in the field of missile technology. It all started in Alleppey, Kerala. After a B.Tech from Thrissur Engineering College, her fascination for radar and missile systems led her to join the...
12:50 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Alleppey: The age-old coir industry of Kerala got a major boost on Saturday with business deals worth crores being signed at the second edition of the Coir Kerala International Marketing Exhibition, held in Allapuzha - the Venice of the East. The representatives of Kerala's coir industry say that valued added products like coir pith and coco lawn will bring in nearly Rs 10 billion after exports. Adoor Prakash, Kerala's Coir...
10:09 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Alappuzha: Kerala health department on Saturday began a probe into 'mass caesarians' performed on pregnant women in a brief two day span in a government hospital in Alappuzha, allegedly to suit the 'holiday' plans of gynaecologists. Adding a serious dimension, health experts alleged that the number of caesarians performed every year in Kerala far outstrips the limit set by the WHO. While the UN health agency has fixed caesarian section...
12:53 PM, Apr 23, 2011
