KOCHI: A cycle rally was taken out as a part of the observance of the World Green Building Week organised by the Cochin chapter of the Indian Green Building Council.
Around 300 students from the NSS wing of Calicut University and the Energy Conservation Society reached Kochi on Monday as a part of their six-day cycle rally that will reach Thiruvananthapuram on September 22.
ALUVA: The presence of an enormous number of worms in the Periyar near the Sivarathri Manalpuram has spread panic among the people since Wednesday evening. The earthworm-like reddish worm is 10 centimetres long.
Lakhs of worms are seen at the bathing ghat near the Siva temple here.
KOCHI: In a boost to its agenda to give a new look to the city through better suburban rail, water, roads and other facilities, the Kochi Corporation has received the approval for its master plan from the Local Self-Government Department.
The draft plan, incorporating the best available solutions, will take the city to the level of other popular cities in the country.
KOCHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has said that a new proposal on Kochi Metro project is getting ready.
DMRC Chairman E Sreedharan said that the Urban Development Ministry would submit a renewed project report to the Planning Commission with an esccalated cost of `5,000 crore.Sreedharan said this after meeting Union Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas.
This report on the recent national level round-table on metro rail systems in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mumbai and Pune organised by Parisar presents the experiences by experts on metro rail systems in these cities and also their concerns & ways of moving forward.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The MPs' conference which was held here on Monday became a platform for the Congress MPs to air their protest against the vendetta politics which surfaced in connection with the inauguration of the new terminal of the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.
