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June 30th, 2007
Here is a “shocking” news pointed out by kuttan. Please note that “shocking” is for the people outside Kerala.
The latest example in this cases is Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samiti’s protest against the entry of retail chains in Kerala. For quite while they had Kerala consumers as captives for their lack of choice. Now [...]
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June 29th, 2007
Kerala News Updates
As part of the modernization initiative, Kerala government has decided to buy a helicopter for the fire and safety department. The cost is expected to be around 34 crores.
Also government has decided to install mobile jammers in all the major jails. Mobile phone use is widespread in jails and there are also instances [...]
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June 29th, 2007
Joseph Thomas writes on the thampanoor boat stop,
First I thought its the people who travel in that car got out to push it. But I was wrong. A friend tells me that there are a group of people waiting for ‘customers’ who get their cars stuck in the middle of the road so that they [...]
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June 29th, 2007
The following photo is taken at fuel station in Vellayambalam, Trivandrum owned by Kerala’s civil supplies department. The red board is a bit difficult to read, since I had to take the photo very discretely. You see, I don’t want to get beaten up!
The board says – “FREE AIR – It is illegal to pay [...]
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June 29th, 2007
Kerala is unique in one respect. Whether you do anything good or bad there will be a lot of people to opposite it. For example, consider the case of making helmets mandatory. Helmets were made mandatory because lot of bike riders were dying due to head injury. But then some people prefer to die.
Following picture [...]
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June 27th, 2007
Vinod gets it right when he says,
It does subscribe to the tactics of a monopoly: Disruption of serv1ces to arm twist the government, using the same tactics on their suppliers, but I have no idea what the outcome was. They have used tactics of shutdowns to protest legal crackdowns on their own.
I am talking about [...]
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June 26th, 2007
June 26th, 2007
Here is an Asianet video on Vinod’s amphibious car. You can drive this in water and on road! This car is air tight and float on water!
He says that the flash flood that happens near Thampanoor railway station in trivandrum inspired him! Kerala government has a plan to open the water way from manjeri to [...]
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June 25th, 2007
Today trader meetings were organized all over Kerala, calling for the closure of supermarkets and other big retailers. Clearly, it is a direct challenge against consumer choice in Kerala. Nobody is saying the “Vyapari Vyavasayi groups” cannot start a supermarket. Who is preventing them to compete with retail giants?
Unfortunately, none of the consumer bodies have [...]
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June 25th, 2007
Indian Express reports about the state of the “secret pact” made between Kerala traders and Moserbaer. What is interesting to note is that it is the KVVES members who are violating the ’secret pact’.
KOZHIKODE: The video library owners in the state, who went up in arms against Moser Baer, nw find its entry an easy [...]
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June 25th, 2007
A Kerala based NGO, Biotech won the Ashden award for food security (30,000 british pounds). Check the award page for more details on Biotech work. The complete biotech report can be downloaded here(PDF).
BIOTECH is an NGO based in Kerala, South India, which has developed biogas digesters for managing food waste and other organic waste [...]
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June 25th, 2007
What is a barcamp?
Barcamp is ad-hoc gathering of people with desire to learn and share information. It involves discussions, demonstrations and interaction from participants. Barcamp means participation and normally tourist/visitors are not encouraged. Most of the barcamps are on technical topics.
Barcamp in Kerala?
Yes. It seems that a barcamp is being organized in Kerala. The date/venue [...]
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June 18th, 2007
Malayali geek Nishad Kaippally has a site which hosts the “The Complete Malayalam Bible In Unicode“. Both Old testament and new testament are available here. You can read it in new lipi or old lipi.
Please note that you need a Malayalam unicode font installed on your operating system to read this. You can download Anjali [...]
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June 17th, 2007
Note: This is an imaginary news item. But I expect it to happen anytime soon.
Government has decided to implement “dual law” system from 2008. Terming the decision as “revolutionary”, ruling party has pointed out that this is the first time in the history such a law is being introduced.
Dual law divides citizens into two categories. [...]
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June 15th, 2007
Kerala Tips is completing 6 months this week. With over 225 posts and 400 comments Kerala Tips is one of the leading blogs on Kerala. Currently over 1000 visitors come to this blog daily for latest in Kerala news.
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