| Koratty Infopark set to take off | 08-OCT-09 |
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| Thirteen companies have been allotted space (40,000 sft) at the park under Phase I, which was launched in January this year. These companies would employ about 500 professionals and include Bluelabs Technology Solutions, Braddock Infotech, Cent Technologies, Infoprism Solutions, Advaya Infotech, Scienetic Technologies and Mulberry Technologies among others. |
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| Kerala CM to be asked to leave Politburo | 12-JUL-09 |
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| Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan will be removed from the CPI(M)’s Politburo on ground of “serious indiscipline.” The Politburo has found him guilty of publicly airing his differences with his bete noire, Kerala unit General Secretary Pinarai Vijayan. VS will be allowed to remain Kerala chief minister by the Central Committee, but a section of the party thinks his days as CM are numbered, as the state unit will try to dislodge him from the post. |
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| Achuthanandan, Vijayan slug it out at Politburo meeting | 05-JUL-09 |
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| Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan and his bete noire, CPI(M) Kerala unit General Secretary Pinarai Vijayan, were at loggerheads at the special Politburo meeting of the party in New Delhi today even as senior leader Prakash Karat called for a way to end the crisis in the party’s state unit. The meeting had been convened mainly to resolve the severe infighting in the unit. The party won just four out of 20 seats in the state in the Lok Sabha polls. |
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| Crisis-hit CPI(M) running out of solutions in Kerala | 24-JUN-09 |
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| Even as the CPI(M) brass observed serious lapses in its organisation and government in West Bengal, the removal of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been ruled out. And in the party’s biggest in-house problem — Kerala — forcing the resignation of Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan, or VS as he is popularly known, is a difficult assignment for party general secretary Prakash Karat. |
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| Perishable cargo complex at Cochin intl airport | 02-FEB-09 |
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| A state-of-the-art perishable cargo complex will be inaugurated tomorrow (Feb 2) at the Cochin international airport . The complex with a total area of 18,000 sft is fully computerised and has a capacity to handle 30,000 tonne cargo like fruits, vegetables and meat annually. |
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| CPI(M) works to balance warring Kerala camps | 31-JAN-09 |
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| Caught in a tussle between Kerala CPI(M) Secretary and Politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan and his bête noire, Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat is looking at options to maintain a balance between the two camps ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. |
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| Travel mart to provide platform for tourism players | 10-SEP-08 |
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| Participants from around 50 countries are expected to converge in Kochi as part of the three-day Kerala Travel Mart 2008, which begins here on September 20.
Following up on the travel marts held |
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| Technopark Phase-3 expansion to get under way | 03-SEP-08 |
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| Technopark’s strides towards becoming Asia’s biggest information technology park will take yet another step forward this week with work set to begin on the Phase-3 expansion. |
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| Kerala mulls curbs on retail majors | 11-JUL-08 |
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In the face of growing protests against the entry of retail chain stores into the state, the Kerala government has said it would impose surcharge and additional taxes on retail outlets run by national and international majors. |
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| DNA barcoding centre comes up | 11-JUN-08 |
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Aimed at barcoding and categorising the rich biodiversity of the Western Ghats, the Thiruvananthapuram-based Tropical Botanical and Garden Research Institute (TBGRI) - Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (STEC) campus, has set up a new barcoding centre. |
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