Gold at the maiden International Travel and Tourism &
WTM World RT Awards in London for Responsible Tourism initiative
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 07: Kerala Tourism has won two
awards includes gold at the maiden International Travel and Tourism award and
Gold award at WTM Responsible Tourism ...
Responsible Tourism units honoured for remarkable
contributions
The second phase activities of project ‘PEPPER’ (People’s
Participation for Participatory Planning and Empowerment through Responsible
Tourism) that ensures local participation in tourism development will be
extended to 12 ...
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 04 : Enhancing the mother and baby
friendly ambience at Technopark here, women-led venture ‘I love 9 Months’ (IL9)
today opened a Lactation Pod on the campus, which will enable working mothers
to pump and store breast milk in a safe,
comfortable and privat ...
Kochi Design Week to be held at Bolgatty Island from Dec
11-16
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 26: Chief Minister Shri. Pinarayi
Vijayan today launched the logo of the six-day design festival, Kochi Design
Week, starting from December 11, aimed at rebuilding the state’s infrastructure
shattered by ...
Members entitled to seven nights’ free stay a year in any of the KTDC propertiesThiruvananthapuram, Nov 1: Adding to its bouquet of new products, Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) today launched Premium Life Membership and Institutional Membership cards for individuals and instit ...
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 01: Chief Minister Shri Pinarayi
Vijayan today flagged off the state-wide ‘Startup Yatra’, being organized by
Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) to nurture aspiring entrepreneurs in Kerala’s
tier 2 and 3 cities and help them realise their startup dreams.
The first-of- ...
NITI Aayog releases “Healthy States, Progressive India”
Report
Kerala, Punjab & Tamil Nadu ranked on top in terms of
overall performance
Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh ranked top
three States in terms of annual incremental performance
NITI Aayog has released a ...
Kerala Tourism has announced an unique Adventure and
activity based tourism annual event named
Muziris Paddle, a group paddling event in association with Jellyfish
Watersports, Kozhikode , focused on
Kayaking & SUP with adventure and leisure theme, on January 19th
and 20th to pr ...
• CM
launches report on 3rd edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) has become a major driver
of art and culture in Kerala and India, built enduring infrastructure for
culture, triggered econom ...
This is a brand new
organization based in Munnar which came up to address the operational ground
issues faced by the resorts. Regular meetings to solve issues like waste
management, plastic removal and other common issues made the operational heads
sit together and plan for taking forward. It wa ...
Good work fetched cultural institutions extra funding: K C
Joseph
Minister for Culture launches state government’s
www.keralaculture.org
Outstanding effort over the past few years by various
cultural institutions under the Kerala government has earned them extra
budgetary allocation, the ...
Success of Biennale vindicates struggles, shows power of
art: Riyas Komu
It is important to support and invest in creative economy
for branding cities and sustainable development of a society, said Dr Shashi
Tharoor MP.
He was speaking at a panel discussion on Culture, Society
and Creativi ...
Life insurance
Corporation of India turns on 56 on 1st September 2012. One of the objectives
of the corporation is the use of people’s money for people’s welfare and the
life funds are deployed for best advantage of LIC policy holders as well as for
the community.
A new micro insurance ...
Much to the delight of the travel enthusiasts, Kerala Tourism today launched a microsite on ecotourism, highlighting the features of major destination ...
Finance Minister Dr Thomas Isaac shares his thoughts, concerns and hopes on the State’s finances and elaborates how his ‘brain child’ KIFFB is going to bring in a revolutionary change in the investment front in a detailed interaction with BRAND KERALA EDITORIAL BOARD.Q.We are currently in a post Budget scenario . How do you assess the financial position of Kerala and do you have any concrete plans to take the economy to a revival path.? A. As you know though the Kerala economy, as in the case of other States, is cur ...
Kerala Tourism global blogger driven campaign wins ABBY
Award
After setting the blogosphere alight with memorable travel
narratives from across God’s Own Country, Kerala Blog Express - Kerala
Tourism’s pioneering blogger outreach programme - has gained added traction.
The third edition of the initiative, which saw 30
influential bloggers from 25 countries set out on a fortnight coac ...
Road users were urged to not use mobile phones when driving
or take to the wheels while drunk in a series of safety messages sent out by
students from the Asian School of Business (ASB) who took out a bike rally in
Trivandrum as part of their Safety Week observance.
Mr. Jawahar Janard, Assistant Commissioner of Police,
Shangumugham who flagged off the rally from Shangumugham beach on Sunday ...
IT mentor G Vijayaraghavan on the roads taken by Kerala’s IT sector
When one talks about the IT
growth in Kerala and the prospects, the most important thing is to look back,
and see what Kerala has achieved in the late eighties. When India was not yet
opened up, nor was the word IT in use, the Government of Kerala decided to set
up a Technology Park in Trivandrum, with the main objective ...
Foldable Smart
Phone
Slim and flexible mobile devices may sound
futuristic; if a new report turns out to be true, the flexible concept mobile
device by Samsung will be a reality by the end of 2015. Samsung is reportedly
working on a foldable/flexible phone which they are planning to unveil by
January 2016. The report was whistled by Sam mobile, a blog covering Samsung
news which has ...
Anything under the sun matters to Manu Kallikkadu. Even a
piece of paper or a dried leaf, or anything derived from nature can be molded
through his fingers, shedding light into his very own world of perspective. His
determination, perseverance and inexhaustible bursts of Inspiration all make
him an artisan of immense potential, able to ink masterful sketches and pieces
regardless of the ...
The International Conference for Gender Equality (ICGE), a
platform to formulate and exchange ideas free of cultural and language
barriers, has been an unqualified success, celebrity attendees said.
The delegates, among who featured leading lights of the
Malayalam film industry, said the conference organised by Gender Park had a
strong theme, was impressively organized and has provided cons ...
Air India, national flag carrier of India, will start
first-ever nonstop flights between San Francisco and Delhi on December 2, 2015.
Air India officials said the airline plans to launch service with three flights
per week, on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, using Boeing 777 long-range
aircraft. Since the flight will connect to Bangalore, Mumbai, and Hyderabad,
inbound visitors from all these ...
eToilet- Beyond the Technology
Most corporate conglomerates think
that contributing to public sanitation is not their cup of tea. Especially in
India, where the mere mention of sanitation was considered a taboo, it was
difficult to find any major developments or innovations in this sector, not to
mention a company that deals exclusively in the making and marketing of
toilets. It was never ...
Federal Bank has created a Corpus exclusively for investment
in Startups. The primary objective is to provide long term capital to Startup
companies with innovative ideas, potential for high growth and ability to bring
socio-economic impact. The fund will be used for supporting small ticket
projects in diverse sectors like Digital Financial Services, Biotechnology, Hi-Tech
Farming, ...
The State Government has decided to constitute “Loka Kerala Sabha” (LKS)and hold its first meeting at Thiruvananthapuram on January 12 and 13. This article is aimed at clarifying on the constitution, objectives and importance of the LKS. Kerala has been able to evolve various models that were copied by the Centre as well as very many States. It was during the regime of the Late E K Nayanar tha ...
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National
Drive to Safety Contest to create road safety awareness amongst students ~
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More than
300,000 people already covered under the Road Safety initiative since
January’15 ~
Honda Cars India Limited (HCIL), leading manufacturer of
premium cars in India, in a strategic move to focu ...
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Vats, I.A.S, Additional Secretary and
Director General (DG) of Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) has taken
charge as the Chairman and Managing Director (C&MD) of HLL Lifecare Limited
(HLL), PSE under Union Health Ministry.
Dr R.K. Vats, IAS is 1986 batch Indian Administrative
Service from West Bengal and he has served as Joint Secretary & Financial
Advisor, M ...
India should look into the genes of its people to see why
various strains of avian influenza virus are not affecting them, says an
acclaimed American virology scientist.
Several types of avian flu viruses are not creating concern
in India as they are in Eurasian countries and North America, points out Dr.
Robert G. Webster a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert and Professor at
Division ...
Mr Jiji Thomson, former Chief Secretary and founder CEO of Norka Roots, in conversation with B.Balachandran, Executive Editor, Brand Kerala.Qn: NORKA Roots , a pioneering initiative in India, was conceptualised during your tenure as NORKA secretary. Can you recollect the thoughts that led to the formation an exclusive outfit for NRKs? The basic thought that led to such an initiative ...
Fast, Precise AF maximizes body speed performance
Stunning G Master Resolution and bokeh
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handling
Durability and reliability for challenging conditions
Full-time DMF (Direct Manual Focus) and other features
support professional shooting needs
α9 System Software Update to Support FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS
Sony In ...
In the light of all that bad
publicity for solar panels in Kerala recently, many think that it is the wrong
time to step into any dialogue on solar energy or even enter into the business
of solar energy promotion. I think, not so.
The incident really tells us
that the people are alive to the need for solar energy to serve them day in and
day out and also that this is a fit area for do ...
Keen to find a poster of the first Malayalam movie
Vigathakumaran? Or the first film song in the language? Or a copy of a vintage
magazine or poster related to the world of celluloid? You have two stalwart
archivists in Kerala.
R Gopalakrishnan and Kiran Ravindran have been collecting
film-related material for the past four decades out of pure passion for the
art. Both residents of the sta ...
Rajasekharan Nair, CMD of RR Holiday Homes Pvt.Ltd., has avenged the social deficiencies of his childhood days through constructive assetsThis is the story of a boy born and brought up in a lower middle class family, in a small village in Kerala, who could not get quality education for want of finance and facilities, coming back to his village after 30 years of exile in a far-away metropolitan cit ...
People called the Pyeongchang Olympics the most high tech in history, with it serving as a testing ground for the largest 5G wireless network showcase yet. Companies have also unleashed their technologies there, such as self driving cars, high speed video streaming, and also the virtual reality viewing.Now days, the Japanese are very confident that they can play better, at the upcoming Tokyo 2020 ...
NEW
DELHI: The global markets and banking sector in agony closer home explains that
the Street and shops opened with significant losses on Wednesday morning.
30-share BSE Sensex lost 190.76 points 34,155.63. The index extended losses
to more than 200 points before paring to some extent. At 10.30 am, Sensex was
down 185 points. The broader 50-share NSE Nifty was also ...
Kerala’s
centuries-old Ayurveda heritage proved the main draw for Russian and other East
European travelers at the three-day Moscow International Travel and Tourism
Exhibition (MITT), the largest and longest-running tourism trade event in that
country. The Kerala Tourism pavilion at the 24th edition of the annual fair –
held from March 14-16 at the Expocentre in Moscow – presented a sam ...
The
large-scale emigration of Keralite workers to West Asian countries has
contributed to significant socio-economic change in Kerala. The emigration
started with a few thousands per year in the early 1970s but assumed large
proportions during 1980s, 1990s and the first decade of the 21st
century. According to a state-wide Survey, total Keralite emigrants in the Gulf
countries are 20.37 lakh ...
Since the world is
changing so fast that the governments will not be as effective as rule-makers
or policy-makers; rather as enablers and facilitators. The US economy remains
weak and Europe struggles with its debt crisis, growth in Asia has been
relatively robust, with fundamentals much stronger than when the region was hit
by severe financial turmoil more than 15 years ago.
According to Mr. Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washingto ...
RezNext, the world’s only true real-time enterprise distribution technology company has announced partnership with RAVHAR, a leading hospitality company providing central reservations and point of sale solutions to hotels and resorts under the brand name HOSTS.HOSTS-Win caters to the unique requir ...
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