Kerala figures in film on world's most amazing fireworks

Thrissur : The festivities and fireworks at the Thrissur Pooram festival have stunned two US-based filmmakers who are making a movie on pyrotechnics across the globe. They have termed it as one of the most amazing display...

Non-alcoholic neera awaits Kerala government nod

Neera, a coconut water-based non-alcoholic drink, is awaiting the Kerala government's nod to become a money spinner for coconut farmers in the state. 'I am optimistic of a favourable decision from the government. It will...

Thiruvananthapuram: In Kerala where politics revolves around various allies of the rival fronts, three of four factions of the Kerala Congress have been in the news for some time now. There is the possibility of a fifth faction...

Tech-secure: Women use mobile apps to ensure safety

With the gruesome Delhi gang-rape fresh in their minds, girls and women are using mobile apps to ensure their own safety and let family and friends know their location. Many women, armed with the latest smartphones,...

Thiruvananthapuram : After netting a handsome revenue of Rs 6.75 crore in nine months through food-making venture, prisons in Kerala are planning to diversify into more products like cakes, 'pappad' and footwear with an aim...

Patriotic song 'Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon' turns 50

Mumbai: It is a song that is sung on every patriotic occasion, had moved India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to tears and its strong morale-boosting words provided solace to a nation agonized by the defeat...

Rashtrapati Bhavan is open to public

New Delhi: Rashtrapati Bhavan, the imposing presidential palace spread over 130 hectares in the heart of this capital city, has become a more accessible place for tourists and common people of India. Pranab Mukherjee,...

Bangalore: M.A Parthasarathy, who passed away here on January 5, was a life -long champion for conservation -- be it natural tracts like the Silent Valley or the Kolkata wetlands, or urban heritage sites like Bangalore's...

Swami Vivekananda suffered from 31 ailments

Kolkata: In a life-span of only 39 years, Swami Vivekananda, who spread the message of India's spiritual heritage across the world, battled several health problems all along and no less than 31 diseases and ailments. 'The...

Cuban beaches among best in the world

Havana: Cuba's tourist destinations Varadero and Cayo Coco are among the 25 best beach resorts worldwide, according to a survey by one of the world's largest global travel networks. Varadero was placed in the 10th...

'The woman in her middle ages, Anjali Gupta, who came to consult with me the other day was obese in the real sense of the term,' says Dr. Divya Sosa Varughese, an Ayurvedic doctor from Kerala, working at the Santhigram Kerala...

Indian nurses still an exploited lot:Study

Thiruvananthapuram: They are hailed as 'angels on earth' but the personal and professional lives of nurses in India are rather 'miserable', especially of those working in private health sector, with low salary, poor working...

Flip-flops now a fashion statement

Once best kept for wearing at home, to the bathroom and, at most, till the roadside shop, the humble rubber slippers, or flip-flops, are now making a splash everywhere with their colourful, bejewelled and trendy avatars....

In the early 1990s, S. Nambi Narayanan was working to develop cryogenic technology when things went for a toss and he was arrested on false espionage charges, which according to him was an 'international conspiracy' to...

Kerala has now set its eyes on pushing tourism centred around ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine and well-being, to the next level by promoting its curative and cosmetic properties. 'Beaches, backwaters,...