KOCHI:Professor Geetam Tiwary, Head of Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre (TRIP Centre) at IIT Delhi said that Diesel run buses are safer than electric cars in terms of GreenHouse Gas emissions. She also added that much of the discourse on urban mobility is limited to commuting by car even though only 5% of the […]
KOCHI:In an effort to encourage sustainable and pollution-free commuting on the campus, Infopark has launched MYBYK app-based bike-sharing service on Friday. John M Thomas, CEO, Kerala IT Parks and Loknath Behera, MD, Kochi Metro jointly inaugurated the service. Bikes will be available for hire at nine different locations across the Infopark. Users can simply install […]
KOCHI:The Kochi Corporation has started a 10-day camp for identifying differently-abled persons in the corporation area for providing various assistive devices. Kochi Corporation Mayor M. Anil Kumar inaugurated the camp, which will be held in different parts of the corporation, at function held at Fort Kochi community hall. Inaugurating the camp, Mayor stated that the […]
KOCHI:Rotary Club of Cochin Global along with members of Inner Wheel Club of Cochin Global, who are also the spouses of Rotarians, handed over 33 smartphones to students of Government Higher Secondary School at Edathala near Aluva today, enabling them to attend online classes that have become the norm owing to Covid-19. Anwar Sadath, MLA, […]
KOCHI:Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, Niti Ayog has flagged off the Clinic on Wheels (COW), the mobile medical clinic launched by Ernakulam Karayogam with the CSR support of BPCL-Kochi Refinery to render quality healthcare services to the marginalised sections of the society. The function which was held virtually was attended by Arun K.Singh, Acting & […]
KOCHI:Ansi Kabeer from Kerala won the Manappuram Miss South India 2021 along with Chandralekha Nath as first runner-up and Shwetha Jayaram second runner-up. They won the 19th Miss South India beauty pageant organized by Pegasus to find the beauty queen of South India. Manappuram Finance Limited and DQUE are the main partners of Miss South […]
KOCHI:India and the United States should try to enhance the maritime security framework in the Indo-Pacific region as their strategic interests are aligning like never before, said maritime subject-matter experts during a webinar that discussed “Indo-Pacific Strategy: Reimagining the Maritime Outlook” on Thursday. The webinar, organized by the Centre for Public policy Research, a Kochi-based […]
KORATTY:The hunger hunt project of Fr Davis Chiramel Charitable Trust, Nammude Ammacheede Adukkala, as part of the hunger free Kerala programme was inaugurated by Koratty grama Panchayat President P.C. Biju. The project is aimed at providing food for the poor and an income for the women. In the first phase, the centralised kitchen attached to […]
KOCHI:Kadavanthra Indira Gandhi Co-operative Hospital joins hands with Karunya Hrudayalaya. The MoU was signed between Hospital Secretary Ajay Tharayil and Karunya Hrudayalaya Operations Manager P Balu at a function held at IMA House, Kochi. The aim is to modernize the Save Heart project started by Dr. A.K. Abraham at the Indira Gandhi Co-operative Hospital years […]