The Kochi City police arrested a 38-year-old man from Malappuram on charge of possessing 508 grams of suspected MDMA, on Sunday. Muhammad Nishad was arrested, based on a tip-off, during a raid at Puthukalavattom. Narcotics Superintendent of Police Abdul Salam led the raid. Nishad was engaged in drinking water supply business at Aluva. A probe … Read more
Roads, education, an international convention centre, addressing waterlogging, and houses for all took centre stage in the Kochi Corporation Budget for 2025-26, tabled in the council here on Monday. The surplus Budget of ₹262.36 crore, presented by Deputy Mayor and finance committee chairperson K.A. Ansiya, anticipated an additional revenue of ₹50 crore through effective financial … Read more
Street lights on many arterial roads and highways in Kochi are dysfunctional. A scene from the Palarivattom-Edappally stretch on Thursday (March 20, 2025). | Photo Credit: John L. Paul Innumerable road corridors in Kochi continue to have dysfunctional street lights or remain without provision for such lights, despite efforts to replace 40,400 of them with LED … Read more
Commuters and bus operators prefer to use the main road than the ill-maintained bus stand at Fort Kochi, for the past many years. | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU Commuters and bus operators have decried the deteriorating condition of the Fort Kochi bus stand located opposite the RDO office, and right in the heart of the … Read more
The Kochi City police arrested four persons, including a woman, in two separate raids and seized nearly 330 grams of suspected MDMA worth over ₹15 lakh and ₹3 lakh, Oman currency, 6.80 grams of ganja, 4.64 grams of hybrid ganja, and 9.41 grams of hashish oil from a hotel and a house in Mattancherry. The … Read more
Extremely curious about the buzz around ramen, we headed to Tony’s Kitchen at Kacheripady, in Kochi, where we were greeted with a visual treat and a surprise for the tastebuds. Miso ramen arrives in a white ramen bowl. Under the dark broth hides the noodles, placed on it were four slices of chicken and a … Read more
From the outside, Adam’s Pizza does not look like a takeaway restaurant. One might easily pass it by without knowing it is a pizzeria. But the regulars know it, students and IT professionals, too, know of it. Adam’s Pizza is a slice of passion and love for Sanoop AK and Jithu George. Opened on March … Read more
The steel frame of the Papanji that was to be burned in effigy at Parade Ground in Fort Kochi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The New Year Eve revelry held in Kochi and Fort Kochi — a premier heritage tourism hub where tens of thousands of people from within Kerala, other States, and abroad converge on … Read more
The Mattancherry BOT Bridge, which links Kochi city with West Kochi, has been illuminated in connection with the New Year celebrations. | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU The police, Motor Vehicles Department (MVD), and other enforcement agencies have issued guidelines and traffic curbs to ensure smooth and safe New Year celebrations in and around Fort Kochi, … Read more
An interventional procedure was successfully done on a premature baby with low birth weight at Lisie Hospital here. The baby, born to parents from Kanjani in Thrissur, was referred from a local hospital with antenatally diagnosed heart disease. She had a birth weight of 935 grams, according to a release issued by the hospital on … Read more