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Taking its campaign for a countrywide ban on endosulfan a step further, the ruling LDF in Kerala today called for a hartal on Friday, April 28. The state committee of LDF announced the plan for hartal on April 29 to coincide with the concluding day of the International Convention on Persistent Organic pollutants being held in Geneva. Technopark and other …

Indian telecom giant BSNL is all set to introduce a facility to make bill payments through ATMs of all banks in Thiruvananthapuram on a pilot basis. Customers will be able to pay bills of all BSNL services, including post-paid mobile phone, land phone, and broadband internet service, through the proposed ATM-payment system. It will be the first such facility of BSNL …

endosulfan – a dangerous insecticide, causing a major public health disaster in some parts of Kerala and Karnataka for the last 30 years. It is a 50 year old organochlorine pesticide used to control insects on food and non-food crops. Endosulfan is a highly toxic and relatively cheaper pesticide used currently in India, China, Brazil and a few other developing …

Technopark based NeST, a provider of electronics hardware and software services, has become an associate member of GENIVI (www.genivi.org), an automobile industry association to streamline development and support of in-vehicle infotainment products and services. GENIVI’s mission is to drive broad adoption of an open source development platform by aligning automotive original equipment manufacture requirements and delivering specifications, reference implementations and …

Trivandrum-based Malayalam film star Prithviraj married Supriya Menon in a very low – key ceremony in Palakkad Yesterday. The ceremony was attended by close relatives and friends. A reception for the film fraternity and friends is being organised at a leading hotel in Cochin on May 1. Supriya works for a leading news broadcaster based out of Mumbai.Supriya and Prithviraj …

One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, is the epitome of the Mughal architecture which involves Islamic, Persian and Indian art styles. Today, it is a world’s heritage site under UNESCO. It was built in the 1600s by the then Emperor Shah Jahan (a Mughal) for his third wife by the name …

Indian IT companies will give 12-14% wage hike this year. Tata Consultancy Services will give wage hikes of 12-14 per cent to its India-based staff this year, according to the company sources.Salary hikes for employees in its major offshore markets – the US, the UK and Europe – would be in the range of 2-4 per cent. In emerging markets …

The Hi-Tech Cell of Kerala Police has served notices on eight online piracy sites that offer new Malayalam films, and inquiry is on to find out the IP addresses of the culprits.  While most of these sites have removed the links of new films such as “Urumi,” “Christian Brothers,” and “August 15,” these films are still available on Torrentz.  Most …

Technopark-based Artin Dynamics has emerged winner in the InfoDev Top 50 Innovative SMEs. InfoDev is a technology and innovation-led development finance programme of the World Bank and Internati onal Financial Corporation. It supports SMEs active in the three priority areas of mobile and Information and Communication Technologies, agribusiness, climate technologies and agribusiness. Artin Dynamics has been invited to participate in …

The media is awash with allegations that discredit civil society Committee members of the Jan Lokpal Bill. The sources are spurious and the accusations are being fueled by the same Ministers who have most to lose if a strong Jan Lokpal Bill is passed. Corrupt politicians will do anything to stop this unique chance to tackle corruption Days ago millions across …

Google, which fooled the world on April 1 by introducing Google Motion, has its own way of fooling itself. Organizers of BarCamp Kerala met with this hilarious incident recently.  BarCamp Kerala is an ad-hoc gathering rooted in the desire to share and learn in an open and friendly environment. One of its organizers created an advertisement for the event BarCamp …

Technopark based RM Education Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. (RMESI), a fully owned subsidiary of RM plc UK, has achieved the coveted BS 25999 certification. The certificate was awarded under UKAS accreditation following a rigorous audit by the British Standards Institution (BSI). Speaking on the occasion, Mr Connell Viegas, CEO of RMESI, said: “RMESI has always focused on best practices across …

Infosys, India’s number 2 IT services company has announced its plans to recruit 45,000 people in this financial year.   The company has made 26,000 offers at campus for financial year 2012. The company, with a total workforce of 130,820 people, has added 8,930 employees (gross) in the quarter. The company has also managed to bring down its attrition levels to …

Soon after the announcement of its HR Director Mohandas Pai’s decision to resign from the company and its Board of Directors, Infosys has inducted former Microsoft India chairman Ravi Venkatesan into its board of directors as an additional director of the company. Prior to joining Microsoft, Venkatesan worked for over 17 years with Cummins.  The announcements came on a day when …

Shangri-lla Art Gallery in the city is arranging a special treat for both artists and art lovers every weekend.  The ‘Weekend Art Mart’ being held at footpath near the Police Ground at Thycaud is witnessing a rush of artists and buyers. Started in March end by director of Shangri-lla, Sasikumar, the Weekend Art Mart attempts to make art a thing …

Waybeo Technologies, a freshly-incubated company based in Technopark Trivandrum, has come up with BounzD, an interactive widget for web and mobile applications that will identify potential customers for a client in no time and push online sales.  A cloud-based service for voice communications over the web, it will enable potential customers to talk with the web team in real time …

The Kerala IT sector will take a major leap forward next week with one of the world leaders in the IT sector, Oracle Corporation, inking an agreement on setting up its facility at the Leela Infopark in the  Technopark campus, here. Sources said that an agreement on allotting the space was expected to be signed between Oracle and Leela Infopark …

Technopark-based IBS Software Services has announced the appointment of Rajiv Shah as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Shah, an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in different companies, will take the responsibility for IBS’ worldwide operations.  Prior to his appointment at IBS, Shah was with Wipro Technologies, based out of Boston, and was heading its securities and capital …