http://www.citybengaluru.com Latest news from Bangalore, India and the World Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:02:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.citybengaluru.com/cpi-m-kerala-unit-to-meet-to-map-its-future/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/cpi-m-kerala-unit-to-meet-to-map-its-future/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:47:27 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81499 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 6 (IANS) The Kerala committee of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) meets here for four days from Tuesday, with its two top state leaders still at loggerheads. Former chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan and party strongman Pinarayi Vijayan continue to be at each other’s throat although publicly they deny the charge. It will [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/cpi-m-kerala-unit-to-meet-to-map-its-future/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-communists-spar-ahead-of-state-meet/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-communists-spar-ahead-of-state-meet/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:51:05 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81489 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 6 (IANS) On the eve of the state party conferences of the two Communist parties in Kerala, top leaders of both the Left parties engaged in a war of words Monday. While the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state conference begins here Tuesday, the Communist Party of India (CPI) is holding its state [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-communists-spar-ahead-of-state-meet/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/five-held-guilty-in-kiliroor-sex-case/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/five-held-guilty-in-kiliroor-sex-case/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:57:40 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81402 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 6 (IANS) A court here Monday found five people guilty in a horrendous case in which a teenaged girl who was sexually exploited in 2003 died a year later following complications after delivering a child. A Central Bureau of Investigation court here, which exonerated one person in what is known as the Kiliroor [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/five-held-guilty-in-kiliroor-sex-case/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/another-jesus-row-hits-cpi-m/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/another-jesus-row-hits-cpi-m/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:26:53 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81267 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 5 (IANS) Kerala’s Marxists are in trouble again — this time over a look alike picture of Jesus Christ’s The Last Supper. The Congress has hit out at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) after the CPI-M’s labour wing put up the controversial picture. It showed US President Barack Obama in the centre [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/another-jesus-row-hits-cpi-m/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/a-documentary-to-be-made-on-singer-yesudas/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/a-documentary-to-be-made-on-singer-yesudas/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:02:13 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81046 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 4 (IANS) A short film on veteran singer K.J.Yesudas’ achievements will be made by television channel Kairali TV, former education minister M.A.Baby said here Saturday. Announcing that a musical will be held Feb 12 to honour the veteran singer on his completing a golden jubilee as a singer, Baby told a press conference [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/a-documentary-to-be-made-on-singer-yesudas/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/congress-attacks-cpi-m-for-using-christ-portrait/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/congress-attacks-cpi-m-for-using-christ-portrait/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:55:01 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80890 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (IANS) The state unit of the Congress party has condemned the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) for using a Jesus Christ portrait at an exhibition here as part of its state conference. ‘We condemn this act of the CPI-M. It is like what Satan did to experiment with Jesus Christ in the [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/congress-attacks-cpi-m-for-using-christ-portrait/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-coir-products-gain-market-share-in-africa-latin-america/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-coir-products-gain-market-share-in-africa-latin-america/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:17:09 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80797 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (IANS) Coir, Kerala’s golden fibre, is seeing its international market share, especially in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, growing following a world-wide shift towards eco-friendly products. The popularity of value-added products like coir pith and coco lawn is proving lucrative for the coir industry, a traditional and key sector of [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-coir-products-gain-market-share-in-africa-latin-america/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/abd-launches-new-brandy-in-kerala/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/abd-launches-new-brandy-in-kerala/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:27:31 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80666 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 2 (IANS) India’s third largest spirits company, Allied Blenders and Distillers Pvt. Ltd., Thursday announced its foray into the semi-premium brandy segment in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh with the launch of ‘Lord & Master – French Grape Brandy’. ABD (formerly BDA Limited) is a Kishore Chhabria-promoted company and its latest offering will cost [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/abd-launches-new-brandy-in-kerala/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/terminated-kochi-tuskers-seek-kerala-chief-ministers-help/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/terminated-kochi-tuskers-seek-kerala-chief-ministers-help/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:42:48 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80619 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 2 (IANS) The owners of Kochi Tuskers, the terminated Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, have sought help from Kerala chief Minister Oommen Chandy to revive the state’s Twenty20 cricket team. Chandy said Thursday that officials from Rendezvous Sports, owners of Kochi Tuskers, have requested him for help to revive the team. ‘I told [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/terminated-kochi-tuskers-seek-kerala-chief-ministers-help/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/proposed-vizhinjam-port-clears-another-hurdle/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/proposed-vizhinjam-port-clears-another-hurdle/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:38 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80351 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 1 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Wednesday said Welspun consortium, one of the last two remaining bidders for the proposed Vizhinjam International Container Terminal, has been given the security clearance for the project. The information was provided to the state government by the ministry of shipping, Chandy said. ‘The empowered committee will [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/proposed-vizhinjam-port-clears-another-hurdle/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/will-indian-womens-cricket-team-get-its-first-keralite/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/will-indian-womens-cricket-team-get-its-first-keralite/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:11:03 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80304 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 1 (IANS) Her chances of making it to the national side are a bright 75 percent but leg-spinner Asha Joy’s family is leaving nothing to chance and cajoling the gods to give the Indian women’s cricket team its first player from Kerala. Twenty one-year-old Asha is currently at the probables camp which will [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/will-indian-womens-cricket-team-get-its-first-keralite/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-to-adopt-narayana-gurus-philosophy-in-education/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-to-adopt-narayana-gurus-philosophy-in-education/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:57:05 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80152 Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 31 (IANS) The Oommen Chandy government Tuesday cleared a committee consisting of education experts to submit a report on how the teachings and philosophy of social reformer Sree Narayana Guru could be included in the education curriculum at both school and college levels. Minister for Culture K.C. Joseph told reporters here that the [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-to-adopt-narayana-gurus-philosophy-in-education/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-to-create-50000-entrepreneurs/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-to-create-50000-entrepreneurs/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:41:06 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80107 Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 31 (IANS) The Kerala government will Thursday announce the names of 812 unemployed youths who will receive training under an ambitious Rs.2,500-crore scheme to create 50,000 entrepreneurs in five years, a minister said. The Kerala State Self Entrepreneur Development Mission was announced by Finance Minister K.M. Mani in his Budget speech last year. [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-to-create-50000-entrepreneurs/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-biodiversity-body-stops-export-of-rare-goat-breed/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-biodiversity-body-stops-export-of-rare-goat-breed/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:44:55 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79690 Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 29 (IANS) The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) recently helped the cause of biodiversity by stopping the export of a rare native goat breed to Australia, which may have harmed the species in Kerala, a board member said. Malabari goats are endemic to parts of Kerala’s northern districts and theirs numbers are fast [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kerala-biodiversity-body-stops-export-of-rare-goat-breed/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/keralas-coir-festival-gets-african-participation/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/keralas-coir-festival-gets-african-participation/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:48:00 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79470 Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 28 (IANS) The second edition of the International Coir Festival has seen registration from 35 countries, which includes many African nations for the first time, a minister said Saturday. ‘Buyers from African nations are showing great interest in coir products. We have participants from countries such as South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia for [...]

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