Kochi: Kerala has grabbed the headlines in the recent past by a spate of infamous deeds of fake swamis and “godmen” who took devotees for a ride. Swindling money, illicit land deals and raping minor girls –the list of offences seems endless. The grapevine doing the rounds is that even wearing saffron is considered a [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Saffron scare – the curse of Kerala
Posted in Kerala, tagged Destination, holiday, Kerala on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Non Resident Keralites to get welfare scheme identity cards
Posted in Kerala, tagged Kerala, Malappuram, non resident on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thiruvananthapuram: Non resident Keralites who drive the economy of this small state can keep their chins up as a bevy of welfare programmes are being worked out for their benefit. These measures would be implemented by Roots Norka, a state-owned organisation that looks after the welfare of non-resident Keralites (NRKs).
To set the ball rolling, all [...]
Kerala IT firm develops an online version of Euro 2008
Posted in Kerala, tagged Football, Karma kerala, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thiruvananthapuram: While the whole world is in the grip of Euro 2008 soccer fever, an IT company in Kerala has come up with an innovative online version of this popular football match.
The game, ‘Penalty Game Euro 2008′ has duration of 10-minutes and is created by Invision Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. It features all the 16 participating [...]
Predator turning a guardian
Posted in Kerala on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kozhikode: Here’s a strange story of an eagle playing guardian to chickens, which form part of its staple diet! In a mysterious twist, an eagle known to be one of the most ferocious predators in the avian kingdom is nurturing two chicks as its own, proving that love and affection exist in the birds’ world [...]
Trawling ban enforced in Kerala
Posted in Kerala, tagged fishing, Kerala, rainy season on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thiruvananthapuram: Though, the South West monsoon is yet to set in vigorously in Kerala, the annual 45 day trawling ban was imposed in Kerala coasts. With the rain clouds playing hide and seek even after 3 weeks since the normal monsoon onset date, things are not in Kerala’s favour this season.
During the trawling ban over 5,000 [...]
Champakulam snake boat race to be held today
Posted in Kerala, tagged Alappuzha, aranmula, champakkulam, Kottayam, palliyodam, snake boat race on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alappuzha: Once again the festive calendar of Kerala would be festooned with an array of snake boat races, the first of which will begin on Thursday. Known as the Champakulam snake boat race, it will be held in the Pampa River at Champakulam, 25km from Alappuzha. An interesting feature is the presence of three thekkanodi boats [...]
Monsoon playing hide and seek
Posted in Kerala, tagged Karma kerala, Kerala, monsoon, rain on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kochi, June 18
Ramesh a farmer looks up daily to the dark clouds hovering over his fields in the hope that they will pour quite heavily today, but for his surprise his dreams gets washed away daily. He say’s if rain does not occurs in the couple of weeks, then he may have to look for [...]
Red Ribbon Express to visit Kerala
Posted in Kerala, tagged AIDS, Karma kerala, Kerala, Red Ribbon Express, Thiruvananthapuram on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kochi, June 17
The Red Ribbon Express will make its appearance at Thiruvanathapuram on June 28, spreading the awareness about HIV/AIDS. The train which is touring the country creating awareness about the causes and preventions for HIV/AIDS will be in the State for 12 days.
During its halt in the state it will make its appearance [...]
In an interesting role reversal, son conducts father’s wedding
Posted in Kerala, tagged Kerala, Sultan Bathery, wayanad on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thrissur: This simple Christian wedding, which took place the other day in Valappad in Thrissur District is startlingly different from any ordinary church wedding. The Christian priest was solemnizing the wedding of his own father when sixty-four-year-old groom, Antony, a widower, got married to Brajitha (50) at the St Sebastian Church.
This was indeed a marriage [...]
Milgram dairy village project comes up at Idukki
Posted in Kerala, tagged dairy project, Idukki, karmakerala on June 16, 2008 | 30 Comments »
Kochi: Kerala based Milgram group is launching an ambitious dairy village project with a budget outlay of Rs.500 crore, which would usher in a white revolution in Kerala. The project coming up at Mlamala in Idukki district is aimed at increasing the milk production in Kerala and would be a small step in making Kerala [...]
