inmalabar: Jul 21, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

malabar | Facilities in German Universities

Kozhikode: Rolf Saligman, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany told the other day that the facilities available and quality of education in German Universities are higher than that of USA.

He was addressing a meeting organized by the Malabar Chamber of Commerce in the city. He added that the educational field was the most unexplored one in the bilateral relations between the two countries.

The language was the biggest bottleneck in the field of education; but said that there are institutions in Germany where English has been introduced in the curriculum.

At present visas are issued from their Chennai office. Shortly their Bangaluru consulate will start issuing visas.

The trade relations between India and European nations were governed by the European Union and individual nations could not have special policies, the consul general told.

malabar | New Indian web browser

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Bangalore: A Bangalore-based software company, Hidden Reflex, has launched a new browser- Epic. The browser is mainly targeted at the Indian audiences. The software is based on Mozilla open-source platform. Any user can download the browser free from the website-www.epicbrowser.com. it is said in a statement by the company. The software has been created by a group of Indian engineers. “Epic provides a unique Indian browsing experience. Epic’ supports Indian content by providing users access to the latest national and regional news from popular publications, live television channels, videos, stock quotes, live cricket scores, top music albums, and local events,” a release said. The users can write in Indian languages on any webpage or in Write, Epic's free built-in word processor. At present 12 Indian languages are supported, the statement said. A free antivirus is built into Epic.

malabar | Tomin J. Thachenkery could not be reinstated - Government

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Kochi: The state government told the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) that Tomin J. Thachenkery, suspended Inspector General of Police could not be reinstated as an inquiry by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against him was in progress. Thachenkery has filed a case asking for his reinstatement before a three-member CAT. Thachenkery was suspended in April since he did not take Government’s permission for a trip to the Middle East. In June Home Ministry ordered an inquiry by NIA on the allegation that Thachenkery had met people having suspected terror links during his visit to Doha. The state government informed the CAT that since probe by NIA was in progress, Thachankery may try to influence once he was reinstated at this juncture.

malabar | Mappilappattu artistes to be honoured in Dubai

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Kozhikode: The second Nellara Gulf Mappilappattu awards function will be held at Al Nazar Leisure Land Ice Rink in Dubai on October 29. The organizers told that the awards were for the persons for their lifetime contributions to Mappilappattu. The categories for awards were best singer (male and female), song, album and book on the art form. Leading personalities from various fields of Malayalam would present the awards. Mappila art forms and other programmes would be staged. The organizers told that the award winners would be selected by a panel of Mappilappattu exponents from the nominations received through the media. The names of the award winners would be announced one month ahead of the programme.

malabar | 54 injured and one killed in bus accident

Kochi: A tanker lorry transporting drinking water rammed a private bus in the morning hours at Pathadipalam near Edappally. One person was killed on the spot and 54 others were injured.

The accident occurred at about 9 a.m. The tanker lorry was coming from Aluva side. It went out of control, jumped over the median and then hit the side of the bus going in the opposite direction. The bus was operating between Ernakulam and Pokkattupadi.

Jayaprakash an engineer with the Kerala State Electricity Board, got stuck under the bus and died on the spot.

The injured were admitted to the nearby hospitals.

The police have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Local residents complained that haphazard parking of trailer lorries along the highway was the main reason for the large number of accidents in the area.

malabar | Intelligent traffic management system

Thiruvananthapuram: A group of final year students of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the University College of Engineering have designed and fabricated a new system called the Vehicular Zonal Adaptation (VeZA) system which would automatically regulate the speed of the vehicle in a particular area such as school, hospital etc.

In this, specially designed transmitters would be fitted at various locations in the city and receivers fixed in the vehicles. Depending on whether a particular area is a school zone, a hospital zone or a no-parking zone,

VeZA will give automated inputs to vehicles on the road and activates the system raising an alarm and restricts the speed.

The system is in the developmental state and require further modifications to suit different types of vehicles.

malabar | MLAs throw chairs in Bihar Assembly

Patna: MLAs of Bihar legislative assembly threw reporters' chairs at each other leaving some among them injured.

In an unusual display of muscle power, ruling and opposition members of the assembly on Tuesday shouted slogans and trooped into the well of the house and exchanged blows.

It started with the opposition members demanding for an adjournment motion and pressing for the resignation of the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi. The opposition alleged the irregular withdrawal of Rs 11,412.54 crore from the state exchequer for various welfare schemes.

The Speaker's repeated pleas for peace and calm fell on deaf ears and he then adjourned the House for the day. However, the entire opposition stayed back in the well of the House.

Both the opposition and ruling NDA members later said it was "a black day in the parliamentary democracy.

The Patna High court while hearing a PIL, had favoured a CBI probe into the alleged financial irregularities. and directed the CBI director to present himself before it on July 26.

malabar | Lorry driver killed in accident

Kozhikode: A tanker-lorry driver was killed when the lorry collided with a private bus at Idimoozhikkal, near Thenhipalam, here on Friday.

The incident happened around 10.15 a.m. The driver, K P Prabhakaran of Kunnamangalam, died en route to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.

Following the accident, traffic on the Kozhikode-Thrissur National high way was disrupted for some time.

About 30 bus passengers suffered minor injuries.

The rescue operations were carried out by the Fire and Rescue Services unit of the Meenchanda fire station.

malabar | Ever green songs of Mohd. Rafi

Kozhikode: Shahid Rafi, son of Mohammed Rafi, sang a couple of evergreen melodies of Mohd Rafi at the juvenile home at Vellimadukunnu.

The children of the home enjoyed the music and danced with it.

“The Mohammed Rafi Music Academy will be launched in Mumbai on July 31, on the 30 th death anniversary day of my father,” he told.

Shahid was in the city to attend a private function. He expressed his happiness for being able to sing in Kozhikode.

The melodious voice of Shahid helped him to take the audience down the memory lane.

malabar | Train accident toll rises to 60

Sainthia (West Bengal): The toll in Monday’s train accident at Sainthia in West Bengal’s Birbhum district has crossed 60, railway officials reported.

The 60 victims include 57 passengers and three railway employees,

More than 150 passengers have been injured.

The accident occurred when the Sealdah-bound Uttar Banga Express rammed into the stationary Bhagalpur-Ranchi Vananchal Express from the rear at Sainthia station.

The three railway employees who died are the driver and assistant driver of the Uttar Banga Express and the guard of the Vananchal Express.

malabar | Professor at the age of 22

Bombay: Tulsi aged 22 is Professor at IIT, Mumbai.

He completed schooling at the age of nine and did doctorate from the Indian Institute of Science at 21.

"I am delighted because IIT Bombay is a very reputed institute, not only in India but the world over. I was offered to teach as an Assistant Professor and I am proud that at the age of 22 I am the youngest professor in India," said Tulsi.

Tulsi opted the IIT job though he got offers from Waterloo University in Canada , and the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) in Bhopal.

malabar | Hartal and bandhs off the road

Thiruvananthapuram: “ Better late than never” thus goes the old adage.

May be there is an awakening in the minds of our top leaders of political parties of the state. They now feel that bandhs and hartals are not solutions to the various problems. They only give troubles to the general public and wastage of national resources.

M Vijayakumar,Law Minister the other day told in the assembly that the government was planning to hold talks with leaders of various political parties on a draft bill to regulate hartals and bundhs in the state. He told that state government could not take any unilateral decision in this matter.

A commission headed by Justice V R Krishna Iyer had recommended regulating hartals in the state.

malabar | Sardar Patel Award for IISR

Kozhikode: Union Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar awarded the Sardar Patel outstanding ICAR institute award to Dr V A Parthasarathi Director, IISR at a ceremony held in New Delhi at NASC complex.

Dr Partasarathi told the award was for the contributions in major areas like good agricultural practice,application of GIS in spice diversity, introduction of office automation software, excellent transfer of technology and conservation of largest germplasm and microbial collection in the world.

This is the second time IISR is being recognized as the best ICAR institution. The institute received award in 1999.

The award includes a citation and cash prize.

Prof K V Thomas, Minister of State for Agriculture, Dr M S Swaminathan M P were among those present on the occasion.

malabar | Feasibility study for North-South rail track for Kerala

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is shortly going to conduct a feasibility study for the North-South High-speed Rail Corridor in Kerala..

The study is expected to be completed within six months. .Industries minister Elamaram Kareem met DMRC MD E.Sreedharan in Delhi and discussed the proposed project.

The feasibility study will cover factors like the route to be followed for the corridor, the towns to be touched, time required for completing the project, and the anticipated cost of construction said Sreedhran.

According to preliminary assessment, the high speed track will need a formation width of about 20m.

malabar | From a school teacher to a business entrepreneur

Chennai: Cheryl Huffton was a school teacher in Chennai. Now she owns a company, Dream Weavers , the turn over of which is Rs 25 lakhs.

The main person behind the success story is her own daughter Denise.

It was only after lot of arguments and cajoling, Cheryl agreed to quit her job as a teacher to start her own enterprise. The initial capital of Dream Weavers was just Rs 500.

Subsequently, they got a loan of Rs 2.5 lakh from Indian Bank.

Dream Weaver makes eco-friendly textiles.

Prema her disabled maid servant was the first employee of the company.

Their first client was a beauty parlour in Alwarpet in Chennai and the sale for the first month was Rs 5000.

Gradually they added more machines and employees and sales went up.

Cheryl now feels that she has done a correct thing in quitting her job and starting a company of her own. She is able to give employment to some women and at the same time earn some profit out of it.

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