Asean to help nurses, techies get jobs abroad
Nurses, techies, teachers and other professionals can have reasons to cheer with the efforts on to include services in the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with member states of the Association of South-Eas
Kochi shakes, people panic
It was 2.10 pm when Kochi’s tall buildings shook with the impact of a mild tremor that lasted five seconds. Tens of thousands of people first felt they were feeling dizzy but soon realised that it was
Seismic scales rising: DC alerted
Is it possible that the state could be hit by a massive earthquake? We’d forewarned the possibility (Danger! State Moving up on the Seismic Zone Scales/December 19, 2011) based on the Bureau of Indian
An evacuation in order at the time of quake
It took an impressive five minutes and 16 seconds for over 200 employees to evacuate their offices on the fourth floor of a building in Kaloor, Kochi as the tremor send waves of panic across the state
All set for Indian sevens football in Kerala
Twelve teams will line-up for the opening season of Indian Sevens Football Premier League that is set to kick off at the Municipal Stadium in Kakkanad on Saturday.
As a prelude to the Sevens Football
‘No need for foreign coaches’
Mahesh Bhupathi is a busy customer, who flits from hard to clay to grass courts across the globe and is certainly not the kind of personality you will get to meet on a routine day out.
Yet, he was ca
Methods galore, so are mosquito bites in Kochi
The monsoons are nearly here but there is no sign of the innovative measures, which corporation officials claimed to have up their sleeves to tackle the mosquito menace that worsens with the floodin
Orders to contain disease outbreak
As the state gears up for the monsoon, local bodies have been instructed to form epidemic cells to deal with diseases that often threaten to accompany it .
Dr Thomas Varghese, joint director-health
‘Safe’ tag for pesticide-filled water!
Deccan Chronicle checked with the government laboratories about their preparedness to check the pesticide level in water and found that none of them has taken this threat seriously.
The National Inst
Pvt colleges PG entrance exams invalid
The Justice Muhammed panel has warned the Kerala private medical college managements association that its proposed entrance exam for PG/diploma admissions has no legal validity. The panel said the exa