Archive for the National News Category
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The universal star Padma Shri Lt.Col. Mohanlal showed his willingness to become the ambassador and promoter of Kerala handloom and Khadi clothing. He took this decision on the request of Kerala’s Industrial minister Elamaram Kareem. Mohanlal is ready to conduct the promotion campaign without any remuneration. Mohanlal told that it is every ones responsibility to [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The second floating supermarket from consumerfed will get inaugurated on this coming June. The first floating supermarket was a great hit. The floating supermarket is having a good support of people living in various villages of Alleppey district. The floating supermarkets are launched by consumerfed in order to make the shopping of people living by [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Bharat Darshan which is the special train to explore India will start its trip from Trivandrum on March 11, 2010. The booking has already started. This train is exclusive for the tourists. Bharat Darshan train is having 7 coaches and a pantry car. Tourists can catch this train from Trivandrum, Kollam, Kottayam, Ernakulum, Thrissur, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
People of Kerala can experience high speed wireless broadband service from tomorrow onwards through Wimax technology. BSNL is the service provider of this 4G mobile wimax technology. Kerala is the first state in which wimax is being launched. Te inauguration of this new service will be done by minister of state K.V. Thomas tomorrow (27-02-2010) [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The price of petrol and diesel will increase with effect from today midnight. The price of the petrol will have a hike of 2.67 Rs and diesel of 2.58 Rs. The immediate increase in the oil price is in accordance with the proposals in the union budget 2010. As per the budget, the excise duty [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The Revised tax scheme proposed in the Union budget 2010
No taxation up to income of 1.6 lakh
Income tax for revenue between 1.6 and 5 lakhs -10%
Income tax for revenue between 5 and 8 lakhs – 20%
Income tax for revenue above 8 lakhs -30%
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The important expectations of Kerala from the union budget 2010 are the programs and packages for boosting FACT, Selling of the shares of Cochin Shipyard, fund and aid to Vizinjam terminal, packages for Cochin metro rail, Higher education improvement schemes, fly overs in various important cities, Improvement of roads etc.
89.99 crore for Fact
Cochin port is [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The whole country is looking at the Union budget 2010. It is expected that the budget gives importance to programs that could control the revenue deficit. The price of the commodities and inflation rates are increasing daily. The budget will give importance in controlling this.
The budget is having special packages that could boost the agricultural [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
India’s first Aqua Technology Park was setup at Aluva near Kochi at Kerala. This is a very good move by the Govt. The main function is a hub for export of ornamental fishs. The main benefit of the Aqua Technology park is that, it will provide the aquaculture entrepreneurs with a site to establish rearing, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Axis bank introduced payment solution through mobile phone involving the debit card. Axis bank is pioneer in India to introduce such an option. The Mobile Payment Solution is implemented using the interactive voice response system (IVRS). The system is branded as Axis call and pay. The system is developed by Atom technologies which is the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
There is new funds and allocations for Kerala in the Rail Budget 2010.Trivandrum has got a mineral water plant of Railway. The plant is intended to provide mineral water at economical rate for railway passengers.
The Railway coach factory at Palaghat got sanctioned. This is a great happy news for the people and Government of [...]