Perseverance key to clearing the bar
On Sunday, perseverance paid off for actor-producer Balachandra Menon and 73-year-old P.M. Kuriakose.
They finally enrolled themselves as advocates after labouring for a long time — 22 and 16 years
Unsafe clinics abound in Kerala
With the Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Accreditation) Bill remaining in cold storage, allegedly due to pressure from the strong lobby of scanning centres and clinics, sa
Can cops rein in their own autos?
The efforts of the city corporation, traffic police and the Regional Transport Authority to streamline auto permits and auto rickshaw stands in the city may go haywire as many autos with city permits
‘Power’ful in basketball
Kerala State Electricity Board Thiruvananthapuram (KSEB) started their campaign in style winning all the games they played in the second week of Mahindra NBA Basketball Challenge in men’s category at
International artists start work on Kochi-Muziris Biennale
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 is gearing up with the arrival of international artists who will work on projects in the city.
Arial Hassan, an Argentinian visual artist, has already come to Fort Koc
Girl child not the favoured ones!
The gradual fall in the birth rate of girl children in the district indicates an alarming signal of the impending unhealthy imbalance in sex ratio in the near future.
According to the 2011 census and
Contractor has harvest of rains
At a time when every drop of water counts, a civil contractor in Kochi has set a grand example by establishing a 1.15 lakh litre rainwater harvesting facility at his house — perhaps the largest by an
Swathi Krishna returns to life
With the return to life of 17-year-old Swathi Krishna, currently convalescing after a liver transplant at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), a new hope has dawned on patients who go for
AG asked to appear in important forest cases
Putting an end to the controversy over the forest cases issue, the state government on Saturday asked Advocate General K.P. Dandapani to appear in important forest cases.
A notification to this effec
Hotel employee returns lost jewellery worth Rs 1L
A hotel employee in Mattancherry has become the talk of the town after he safely returned gold ornaments worth over Rs 1 lakh that a woman had lost on Saturday. More commendable is the fact that he re