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Tomas Brunegard is new WAN-IFRA president

Tomas Brunegård, chairman of Sweden’s Stampen Media Group, has been elected as the new president of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-INFRA). He will have a...

June 7, 2013

Kerala launches Seaplane service

With an aim to boost tourism in the state launched the seaplane service at a function on the Asramam banks of Ashtamudi Lake amid protests from the fishing...

June 4, 2013

Kerala against creation of buffer zone in any populated area suggested in Western Ghats Report

Kerala Cabinet will oppose declaration of any populated area on the Western Ghats in the State as ecologically sensitive area. The Kerala government clarified that it was not...

May 13, 2013

SEBI gives nod to $10 million Startup Village Angel Fund

Market regulator SEBI has given a fillip to the country’s first telecom incubator ‘Startup Village’ in Kerala by approving the Startup Village angel fund of $10 million that could go up to...

May 12, 2013

Fact Box: K. Kasturirangan High-Level Working Group

K. Kasturirangan-led 10-member panel High-Level Working Group (HLWG) Presented its report on Western Ghats to MoEF (Ministry of Environment and Forests) K. Kasturirangan-led 10-member panel High-Level Working Group...

April 18, 2013

Biogas plant commissioned on the Kerala Government Secretariat campus

Bio Flame-Biogas and Energy Pvt. Ltd. installed a biogas plant on the Government Secretariat campus in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.  The plant can process up to 100 kg of biowaste an hour...

March 31, 2013

Nikhil Kumar new Governor of Kerala

Nikhil Kumar sworn in as the 20th Governor of Kerala. Former Indian Police Service officer Nikhil Kumar  had earlier also served as Nagaland governor, the head of the NSG (National...

March 29, 2013

Renowned painter Ganesh Pyne passed away

Legendary painter Ganesh Pyne (76) passed away in Kolkata.  Described famously as ‘an artist’s artist, a philosopher’s philosopher and master fantasist of them all’, Pyne had received several...

March 15, 2013

Kerala raises age limit to buy liquor from 18 to 21

Kerala Cabinet ratified the Kerala Abkari Act Amendment Ordinance 2013 which ideates increasing the age for buying and selling liquor from 18 to 21 years in the state....

February 26, 2013

Kerala increases age limit to buy liquor from 18 to 21

The Kerala Abkari Act Amendment Ordinance 2013 has been given approval by the Kerala Cabinet. With this amendment, the age limit for buying and selling liquor has been...

February 24, 2013

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