Hindu (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
KOCHI: New Generation Banks and Insurance Employees’ Union, AITUC, has slammed the management of a private sector insurance company for sacking workers since June this year. K. Vijayan Pillai, State committee member of AITUC, told a ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
KOCHI: Who doesn’t love to watch a bird taking off at the break of dawn? An event is coming up later this month for the serious bird watchers in the State whose love for birds goes beyond the mere beauty of seeing them in ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
KOCHI: Candidates belonging to the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) cast their votes early in the morning here on Saturday. Dominic Presentation, UDF candidate, exercised his franchise at St. ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
KOCHI: Stem cell research would pave the way for treating degenerative diseases, said Claude Bernard, Associate Director, Immunology and Stem Cells Laboratories, Monash University, Australia. He was speaking at the 36th international ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
KOCHI: Forest Minister Benoy Viswom has urged the student community not to ape the Western trends and practices. Delivering the inaugural address at ‘Inflore 09’, a management fest organised by the Rajagiri Centre for ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
KOCHI: The MACTA Federation has split, as several members have decided to oppose the organisation’s affiliation with the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC). The rift came to the fore owing to differences of opinion between ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
KOCHI: The MACTA Federation has split, as several members have decided to oppose the organisation’s affiliation with the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC). The rift came to the fore owing to differences of opinion between ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
KOCHI: Legal fraternity can be proud to have contributed for the survival of democracy in the country, Justice R. Basant of the Kerala High Court, has said. In his inaugural address at the 13th all-India moot court competition for the ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
KOCHI: Diabetes has become so prevalent that its occurrence even among young persons raises no eyebrows now. Education on the management of the diabetic condition becomes important as the disease gives rise to many complications. The ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
KOCHI: Environmental and social activists in the State have urged the government to take immediate steps to protect the precious Western Ghats region. A meeting of the activists held here recently urged the authorities to stop all ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
KOCHI: District Collector M. Beena has said that government offices would become people friendly in the true sense of the word when they converse with the people, who approached them for a variety of needs in their own language. ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
KOCHI: Thousands of students took a pledge to protect public property here on Monday. The event was organised by the District Legal Services Authority in connection with the Kerala Formation Day. A release said the objective of the ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
KOCHI: Ten centres across the State will offer the platform for the first round of battle between the best young mathematical brains in the State. The Regional Mathematical Olympiad (RMO) organised by the National Board for Higher Mathematics ...
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
RIGHT: Photo by Matthew Field Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 Staff Reporter KOCHI: A brown widow spider belonging to the widow spider group was spotted at Thiruvalla recently. It was an adult female spider. The spider collected by Manoj Thomas, a medical practitioner, was identified by Samson Davis and P.A. Sebastian, of the Spider Lab of the Sacred Heart College, Thevara. The specimen...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
KOCHI: Renowned agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan said here on Monday that the present draft of the Food Security Act would not provide food security. Delivering the Sarada-Krishna-Satgamaya Foundation lecture on ‘Science, ...
