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>>Comrade VS will contest the coming assembly elections, if his party gives the needed green signal.  Last time, his contesting was marked by much controversy since his opponents in the party had taken all measures to prevent him from contesting, but later due to unprecedented pressure from the cadres and die hard fans fully fanned by mainstream media, the Politburo …

A one-stop solution for all medical and health needs — from doctors, hospitals, ayurveda centres, pharmacies and even insurance referral units — will open in a 10-storied mall in this Kerala city. The BCG group, a Rs.500-crore business conglomerate, is building the country’s first multidisciplinary health mall here and it will be open by August, a company official said Thursday. …

The Central Government Tuesday issued a directive assigning Special Economic Zone (SEZ) status for 132 acres of land at the proposed Kochi SmartCity site. The rest of 114 acres of land will get the SEZ status in ten days. Following this, SmartCity promoter Tecom will launch construction activities at the project site.

The State government and the Tecom singed the lease deed for the proposed Smart city project here on Wednesday. Smart city board chairman, minister S Sarma and Abul Lathif Almulla, TECOM CEO signed the deed at the board of directors meet held here. Suresh Kumar IAS, IT principal secretary and industrialist MA Yousafali also attended the meeting. Two separate lease …

“Last day the experience I had at Thiruvallam Parasurama temple was really a shocker for my family and me” ” saying Sunil Nair, a Technopark employee. A close relative of me passed away in February last year and his family came down from Madhyapradesh to offer first annual rituals at Parasurama temple at Thiruvallam. We reached there carrying the memories …

Double-decker buses, once an identity of Thiruvananthapuram, and new vestibule buses will start plying in the city from Tuesday. Transport Minister Jose Thettayil will flag off the buses from the city stand at 9.30 am. After a long interval, city will witness the plying of double-decker buses through the royal roads of Thiruvananthapuram. Double-decker buses stopped plying the city for …

The President of InApp, Satish Babu, has been appointed as the Director of the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) by the Government of Kerala. Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan inaugurated the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software at Technopark on February 24, 2011. The ICFOSS was formed with a view to provide technical assistance for implementing …

Megawave productions, a group of techies planing the movie ‘The Island Express‘, conducting their first official meeting at Sri Mulam Club, Vazhuthacaud on March 5 at 2 pm to 5 pm. In the meeting they will explain the: – The vision and mission of Team Megawave. – The plan of current project. – Budgeting and other details. “We would like …

With the introduction of six new trains, including a Duronto Express and MEMU, the Union Railway budget presented on Friday has brought much for Thiruvananthapuram to cheer about.  The new passenger terminal at Nemom is one of the highlights of the budget. The Chennai-trivandrum AC Duronto is one among the ninte Durontos announced in the budget.  This will run twice …

Can big franchises fix any amount of their interest?  SUBWAY in Technopark feels they can.   Recently, a techie had to pay double the amount for a bottle of water.  Jaison Joseph – A Techie from Technopark, who bought a 500 ml Kinley drinking water from Subway, had to pay Rs 20 instead of the printed price, Rs 10. When he …

Yentha.com presents ‘Home Expo 2011’, first-ever online home expo in Trivandrum,  from Feb 10 to April 10. “This is a unique and first-of-its-kind venture and we expect good response for this.   So far, the response to this from our clients have been positive.” says Sivakumar S, Sales Manager, Yentha.com. With this online real estate expo, you can choose from …

NATANA – The Arts club of technopark published the results of its auditions. Hundrads of talents from Technopark participated during the audition conducted at Technopark. The result published in categories like  Singing, Dancing, Acting, Modeling etc… Check out the Natana Audition Reult Page for the details. Link: http://www.natana.in/natana-audition-results ..and Congratulations Winners!!!

Railway police and Railway protection force decided to  publish the helpline numbers in all the trains under trivandrum division. Railway Police Helpline Number : 9846200100 Railway Protection Force Helpline Number: 9995040000 Save this number, and pass it to your friends and relatives.

Flytxt, the Technopark based technology leader in mobile marketing and advertising, is hosting a Developer to Developer Big Data Workshop on “Harnessing Hadoop” for Big Data Analytics’ on March 9, 2011.  The event will be held at the Park Centre in Technopark, Trivandrum.  The workshop aims to give a peek into the interesting and real-world applications of Hadoop stack. Rajesh …

MobME – A technopark based mobile value added service company has won NASSCOM innovation award for 2011. MobME won the award under the category, Market Facing Innovation, for its implementation of the m Governance Service Delivery Platform (mSDP) for Kerala State IT Mission, India’s first m-governance project. MobME is one of the eight companies that won this recognition from among …

Information Kerala Mission (IKM), the flagship e-governance project of the state government that works towards strengthening computerisation and networking of the 1,223 local bodies in the state, is billed as the largest and most comprehensive local bodies project in India. M.K. Prasad, executive chairman and director of IKM, said at a media seminar here Tuesday that each of the local …

Infosys is planning major expansion in Trivandrum, kerala, with the inaguration of their first Software Development Block (I) at its Technopark Campus II (SEZ) in Trivandrum, Kerala. Infosys’ second campus at Technopark Campus II (SEZ) is spread over 50 acres and will be developed over a period of five years in a phased manner. The Software Development Block (I) inaugurated at …

The director board meeting of Smart City Kochi, which is expected to take important decisions on starting project work, will be held in Kochi on Wednesday.  A Teacom team headed by Abdullatif Al Mulla, CEO of Tecom investment group, will arrive here on Tuesday. New lease agreements will be signed between the state government and Tecom.  Decisions on issues like …