KOCHI: Federal Bank has come out with enriched features on its Mobile banking platform – FedMobile. Bank has added 300 large merchants spread across the country, thereby giving absolute comfort to the customers to pay their utility bills. The features include facility for payment of Electricity bills, Telecom, Gas, Insurance, Mutual funds, Donations etc. In […]
Apple Inc is investigating how to charge electric cars, talking to charging station companies and hiring engineers with expertise in the area, according to people familiar with the matter and a review of LinkedIn profiles. For more than a year, Silicon Valley has been buzzing about Apple’s plan to build an electric car. Now the […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government led by CPM Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan assumed office, after a 19-member Cabinet was sworn in by Governor P. Sathasivam. Governor P. Sathasivam administered the oath of office and secrecy to Pinarayi Vijayan and 18 members of his Cabinet. Vijayan had called on the Governor in the […]
BEIJING: President Pranab Mukherjee emphasised the need for comprehensively resolving challenges including the boundary question through “political acumen” and “civilisational wisdom”. Delivering a lecture at the elite Peking University, Mukherjee noted that there is bipartisan commitment to strengthening partnership with China, and said political understanding between the two countries is vital for “closer developmental partnership”. […]
KOCHI: Startup Village Chairman Sanjay Vijayakumar, who played a key role in setting up India’s first technology business incubator on the PPP model in Kerala, has been appointed an Advisor to the Rajasthan government’s Startup Council to create a startup ecosystem in the western state. The Startup Council, headed by the Rajasthan Chief Minister, comprises […]
KOCHI: Sellers at the upcoming edition of the Kerala Travel Mart (KTM) are being offered help to raise their sales and marketing skill to international standards with a series of training programmes ahead of the event in September. The KTM society is organising short courses on skill development, including topics such as selling skills, customer/ […]
NEW DELHI: Railways will undertake a week-long elaborate programme from May 26 to mark the completion of two years of successful passenger friendly measures by railway.”The week will be celebrated as ‘Rail humsafar’ and during the period will focus on passenger amenities including cleanliness, catering, punctuality among others to mark the completion of two years,” […]
KOCHI: The export of coir products from the country has continued to keep its ever increasing trend both in terms of quantity and value. This is achieved even against the economic recession and the slow down all over the world. Coir Board chairman C P Radhakrishnan said that the year 2015-16 witnessed the export figures […]
KOCHI: He is one of those rare vocalists trained in both north and south Indian classical music, but when it came to the audience today Uday Ramachandran again chose to render light songs — though, mostly of a bygone era. At the ‘Arts and Medicine programme’ at Government General Hospital here, the young artiste struck […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Further capitalising on its initial forays into China, Kerala Tourism showcased the very best of ‘God’s Own Country’ at the Beijing International Tourism Expo (BITE) 2016, one of the world’s most prestigious travel and trade fairs. It was for the second time the south Indian state was featured at the annual forum in the […]