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TechnoparkToday.com>> World-renowned innovators, influential technologists and leading entrepreneurs will converge on the city next week for a day-long summit to evaluate emerging trends in a dynamic IT landscape and explore new ideas for developers and organisations to navigate, adapt and grow in the face of unpredictability. Besides highlighting the impact of seismic shifts across various technology domains, the event, ‘Disrupt …

TechnoparkToday.com : The Partner Kerala Urban Development Meet is looking to attract investments primarily from individuals who want to have a stake in the growth of their home towns and cities, and contribute to their local communities, Minister for Urban Affairs Shri Manjalamkuzhi Ali has said. “We are not reaching out to foreign investors and companies, but to local businessmen, entrepreneurs …

TechnoparkToday.com(Feb, 2014): The Vytilla Mobility Hub Society (VMHS), which is buoyed by the success of first phase of Vytilla Mobility Hub, will showcase the second phase of the Hub’s expansion project at the Partner Kerala meet to attract prospective private investors. The VMHS has prepared a detailed project report and master plan for second phase which is estimated at a …

TechnoparkToday.com(Jan, 2014): The Government’s stance at not raising tobacco taxes in the 2014-15 Kerala Budget, waving aside popular sentiment, has left many severely disappointed. Health professionals and tobacco control advocates feel that the total ignorance shown to taxing tobacco products in the Budget presentation made by the Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri KM Mani today is a retrogressive step in the state’s …

TechnoparkToday.com(Jan, 2014):  The Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute for Basic Sciences, set up in memory of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for capacity building in Basic Sciences, has invited designs for a logo for the institute. Professionals, scientists and students can send in logos that indicate significant details of the Institute, which is under the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment(KSCSTE), …

TechnoparkToday.com>> Jan 22, 2013:  JCI Thiruvananthapuram has conducted a one day Blood Donation Awareness Seminar and Blood Donation camp on January 20, 2014 at PRS College of Engineering and Technology, Paliyode, Thiruvananthapuram in association with Kerala State AIDS Control Society (KSACS), and HLF PPT – with the cooperation of Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram and The Women and Children’s Hospital, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram. …

TechnoparkToday.com>> January 9, 2014:  The Trivandrum chapter of AAP has served a show cause notice to city corporation mayor K Chandrika on Wednesday raising various issues of the city. AAP activists alleged that the mayor has miserably failed in discharging her duties. The following notice referred to different issues including waste management, plastic issue, stray dogs, flex boards, etc. For …

  TechnoparkToday.com>> January 3, 2013:  Junior chamber International, Thiruvananthapuram chapter has launched Rudhiramithra, a year long program for blood donation. The first program was held at Law Academy law college on January 3.  The program was organized in association with Kerala state AIDS control society, Medical College, and General Hospital Thiruvananthapuram. As many as 150 students participated in the program. …

TechnoparkToday.com(Dec,2013):  Adarsh Shastri (40), who joined Aam Aadmi Party recently is the one ,who left his crore-plus annual salary to a job in Apple Inc, to Aam Admi Party. is not just any corporate high-flyer – he’s the grandson of former Indian prime minister, late Lal Bahadur Shastri, and the son of Congress leader Anil Shastri. Adarsh, who was head of …

TechnoparkToday.com>> December 23, 2013:   Aroma Fresh, the chain of pesticide-free food products opened  two more outlets in Thiruvananthapuram – at Nanthencode and Kesavadasapuram – on Monday, December 23. Actress Suhasini, the brand ambassador of Aroma Fresh, inaugurated the store at Nanthencode at 12.30 pm and the new outlet in Kesavadasapuram at 1.30 pm n Monday. This will take the total …

TechnoparkToday.com(Dec,2013)  : Grade 2 students from the Trivandrum International School (Trins) have been campaigning in the city to raise awareness about the responsible use of public spaces. The children, aged seven to eight years, put up posters, distributed flyers and interacted with visitors and passersby at stores, supermarkets, eateries, petrol stations and other public places on Wednesday. The activity is part …

TechnoparkToday.com>> How about winning a Nissan Micra or Yamaha FZ during this Christmas-New Year season?   Dropping in at Oberon Mall, the city’s one-stop-shop for shoptainment, gives the best chance of winning your dream vehicle thanks to the Oberon Shopping Fiesta. The city’s first mall spread over more than 3.50 lakh sq.ft plans to dole out bagful of daily gifts worth …

TechnoparkToday.com > The Indian Institute of Diabetes, a State government institution at Pulayanarkotta, Trivandrum has launched a scheme for the care of those aged beolow 18 years with Type 1 diabetes. Under the scheme, ‘Changing Diabetes in Children’, all diagnostic requirements and treatment of children with Type 1 diabetes from financially backward families, including the supply of insulin, will be made …

TechnoparkToday.com>> December 17, 2013:  With its stunning victory in Delhi polls, Aam Admi Party is making its presence felt in other places including Trivandrum. An adhoc committee of AAP was formed in Trivandrum in April 2013. The committee has been regularly conducting meetings, and was involved in building the Trivandrum team for AAP. “Trivandrum AAP had a moral victory when …

TechnoparkToday.com(Oct,2013) – Renowned writer Sethu has said that the greatness of Ramayana lies in the power of its characters that provoke and influence the readers in a unique way. In his address after releasing the book “Stories of Ramayana” penned by Prof. P. J. Joseph, president of the Toc H Public School Society and vice president of the Indian Society of …

TechnoparkToday.com – The Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) has joined hands with Calicut University in preparing for the upcoming Kerala Science Congress to be held in Wayanad. A meeting, attended by KSCSTE Executive Vice President Prof V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Calicut University Vice Chancellor Dr Abdul Salam, Science Congress Convenor Prof George Varghese and the principals of colleges …

TechnoparkToday.com > Art Stage Singapore 2014 has selected Bose Krishnamachari, president of the Kochi Biennale Foundation and co-curator and Biennale Director of the first edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, as its curator for India pavilion in the new ‘Platform’ section. Art Stage Singapore will take place at Marina Bay Sands from Jan. 15-19, 2014. Krishnamachari, who is busy with preparations for the second …

TechnoparkToday.com(Oct,2013) > Dosa Plaza – The one stop shop for all kind of Dosa’s you can ever imagine opened their new outlet at Sasthamangalam, Tirvandrum. The new Dosa Plaza outlet is spreading across three floors, and each floors having a different theme and ambiance. Dosa Plaza also offers other popular south indian dishes like  Iddli, Wada, Upma, Uttappa and Pav bhaj etc. …