As many as 700 students of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) have secured employment opportunities in various companies through campus recruitment, according to the university authorities. The highest annual pay of the placement season was ₹25 lakh and the average pay package was ₹7.32 lakh. Approximately 75 companies visited the university for … Read more
“It is Vishu eve. Everything of golden hue in the market is fetching a premium,” says a wholesale vegetable trader in Ernakulam, making light of an unusually damp market this year. Among the yellow stuff that define Vishu and go to fill a platter of auspicious sighting objects is ‘Kanikonna’ (cassia fistula) or golden shower. … Read more
The Kochi Corporation is awaiting a green signal for its master plan from the State government before kick-starting its ambitious project of drawing up Keralaâs first Local Area Plan (LAP) centred around the mass transit hub of Vyttila. LAP has emerged as the focal point of a shift in the development paradigm proposed by the … Read more
The 110-acre prime land that the Railways own on the Ponnurunni-Kathrikadavu marshalling yard premises remains underutilised. | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU Even as the Railways affirms that efforts will be made to develop major railway stations and underutilised premises, if any, as city centres, stakeholders have expressed concern at over 100 acres of prime railway … Read more
Dairy farmers under the Ernakulam Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union will be given an additional ₹3 per litre for milk during the 10-day Onam season beginning from August 20. This would entail an expenditure of approximately ₹1 crore, says an official release issued by the union’s chairman, M.T. Jayan. Source link