Kochi Water Metro ferries to link four more terminals from March 14

Kochi Water Metro ferries to link four more terminals from March 14

A view of the South Chittoor terminal of the Kochi Water Metro. | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU With Kochi Water Metro ferries set to call at South Chittoor, Eloor, Cheranalloor and North Mulavukad terminals from March 14 (Thursday) evening, more islanders would get direct waterway connectivity to mainland Kochi. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will … Read more

Corporation awaits final notification of Kochi Master Plan for drawing up Kerala’s first Local Area Plan

Corporation awaits final notification of Kochi Master Plan for drawing up Kerala’s first Local Area Plan

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 Kerala’s 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

Gold seized at Kochi airport

Gold seized at Kochi airport

Customs personnel at Cochin International Airport seized gold in capsule form, concealed in their person, from two passengers who arrived at the airport from Abu Dhabi and Dubai on Friday. The first, Moideen Sha from Kochi, was carrying 1076 gm of gold, and the other, Ashraf from Nenmara, 958 gm. Source link

Kochi Corporation to adopt decentralised waste management strategy

Kochi Corporation to adopt decentralised waste management strategy

The Kochi Corporation proposes to become the first civic body in the State to adopt what could be loosely described as a ‘hub and spoke model in waste management’ whereby there will be one major centralised plant and a slew of decentralised plants of varying capacities. The proposed waste-to-bio-CBG (also known as compressed biogas) plant … Read more

Inflow of Maldivian nationals to Kochi for medicare continues despite diplomatic row

Inflow of Maldivian nationals to Kochi for medicare continues despite diplomatic row

The diplomatic row between India and Maldives has not impacted the inflow of Maldivian nationals for medical treatment in private hospitals here. Of the monthly average of around 3,000 foreign nationals that seek treatment here, people from Maldives accounted for nearly 15-20%. Around 600 persons from Maldives avail treatment in a month at hospitals here … Read more

Kochi farmer’s sunflower farm for his mother

Kochi farmer’s sunflower farm for his mother

KK Vijayan tending the sunflower plants | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT As the late afternoon sun beats down mercilessly, KK Vijayan’s sunflowers present a mostly happy picture. “Though called sunflowers, these cannot take too much heat. I doubt if they will flourish in peak summer,” he says as he shows around the 50 cent pocket … Read more

Recruitment of workers for mosquito control measures in Kochi may take time

Recruitment of workers for mosquito control measures in Kochi may take time

It may take at least a fortnight for the city to get the services of 150 workers for mosquito control measures even as pest attack remains unabated in the city. Mayor M. Anilkumar had announced at the last meeting of the Kochi Corporation that 150 more workers would be hired to augment pest control measures … Read more

Kochi gears up as shipbuilding hub as PM Modi set to dedicate new projects

Kochi gears up as shipbuilding hub as PM Modi set to dedicate new projects

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the supporters during a roadshow, in Kochi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Kerala’s port city of Kochi is set to become a bustling hub for ship repair and shipbuilding as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate projects worth ₹4000 crore on January 17, Union Minister Sarbananda … Read more

Air travel trends in Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi paint a contrasting picture

Air travel trends in Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi paint a contrasting picture

The travel trends of two major airports in Kerala – Cochin International Airport and Thiruvananthapuram International Airport – in 2023 painted a contrasting picture. For the first time in recent history, domestic flyers from Thiruvananthapurm airport surpassed international passengers, with the airport roughly handling around 22 lakh domestic passengers as against 19 lakh international passengers … Read more

Woman, partner held in connection with death of infant in Kochi

Woman, partner held in connection with death of infant in Kochi

The Elamakkara police on Tuesday arrested a woman and her live-in partner on charge of killing her one-and-a-half-month-old baby boy. The duo, Aswathy of Eramaloor, Alappuzha, and Shanif of Kannur were taken into custody after the post-mortem report of the infant showed a crack in the skull. Pattern of injury The pattern of injury was … Read more