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According to recent study compiled by economics research firm Indicus Analytics on residences, earnings and investments, none of the major Indian cities figured in the List.In fact from the study we can easily figure out that Kerala is the best place to live in India.Total justice to it's brand name 'God's own Country'.

The best cities to reside are Kochi (Cochin), Kozhikode (Calicut), Shimla, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Mysore, Goa, Thrissur (Trichur), Pondicherry, Kannur (Canannore) and Thiruvalur. Interestingly, five of these cities are in God's own country -- Kerala. Shimla is the only northern city in this list, while Chandigarh, among the few fully planned cities in the country, failed to find a place.

Indicus considered six parameters -- health, education, environment, safety, public facilities and entertainment -- for preparing the 'reside-in' index.

All the major Kerala cities found top places in the list and thats a good news.

Dear Keralites let us try to keep our cities and it's culture in good standards to remain top in the list always..
Please check out the news ..
http://in.news.yahoo.com/071126/48/6npdp.html

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Peruvannamuzhi (Peruvannamoozhy) is one of the most beautiful tourist destination in Calicut District of Kerala state ,South India.Peruvannamuzhi is almost 60 KM from the Calicut City. The main attraction of the place is artificial lake reservoir) where the visitor can enjoy a cool boating. Speed boat as well as small rowing boats are available at the site.

There are numerous small islands in the reservoir few of them are converted to Bird sanctuaries and 'Samarak Thottam'.The reservoir server the irrigation requirements of three districts of Kerala namely Kozhikode,Malapuram and Kannur.The Japan government aided multi million dollar drinking water project also is getting water from the Peruvannamuzhi reservoir.

There is a beautiful garden in peruvannamuzhi where visitors can spend time without any disturbances of the busy outside world. Another attraction of Peruvannamuzhi is the Crocodile farm where you can closely observe the giant crocodiles.

The IISR (formerly CPCRI) research center is also located in Peruvannamuzhi.IISR is a Government of India Institution for agricultural research and development. Many new varieties of corps are emerged from the IISR Peruvannamuzhi research labs.

Another venture of IISR known as KVK or Krishi Vigyan Kendra is also has its main offices in Peruvannamuzhi. KVK has it's own training facilities for farmers with hostel and boarding facilities. Another attraction of Peruvannamuzhi is the Koothali Agricultural Farm which is located in Peruvannamuzhi.You will get seed and saplings of all fruit and flower varieties here.

The decades old Fathima Matha Catholic church is also another attraction. The surrounding areas of the Church gives a breathtaking scenic beauty.

Another famous organization 'Shalom' is also having its headquarters in Peruvannamuzhi.The Shalom publications, Shalom TV and Shalom Prayer group are also operating from the same campus

If you are interested to know more about Peruvannamuzhi and the institutions operated from there ,please visit the following web sites,

Peruvannamuzhi

Shalom

KVK (Krishi Vigyan Kendra)

IISR (Indian Institute of Spices Research)

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Supplyco the retail division of Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. is planning to open retail shops overseas.This makes clear that even kerala government operated corporations also eying big.
This is a welcome movement from Supplyco.
But the fact is that their outlets in Kerala has to be face lifted to compete in the Kerala market ,since lot of retails giants are planning to enter the Kerala retail sector,even though there are protests against them from few of the organizations.
But that is the 'Kerala Style' of welcoming changes!!
Right friends?

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http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/20/stories/2007112058141900.htm

Web portal www.kannurindustry.gov.in for small industries was launched by Industries Minister Elamaram Karim here on Monday 19th November 2007.

The project initiated by District Collector Ishita Roy in association with the District Industries Centre, Kerala State Small Industries Association (KSSIA) district unit, Akshaya and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) was completed in a short span of time, NIC officials said.

With the launching of the portal, small industries here with SSI registration can reach out to national and global markets.

The DIC has been delegated the authority of the website and it will moderate the content.

The posting in the portal is exclusively for the industry organisations registered under the SSI scheme.

The Akshaya project district office will co-ordinate the participating agencies, officials said, adding that the web page design and data collection were being done by Akshaya entrepreneurs. The portal was developed, designed and hosted by the NIC which imparted training to the Akshaya entrepreneurs for content management and design. The KSSIA district unit would propagate and promote the web portal, they added.

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Steel Complex Limited at Nallalam ,Calicut

Serious efforts are underway to make fading Steel Complex Limited at Nallalam(SCL) ,Calicut to a profit making PSU.
Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is planning to offer Financial as well as technical support to SCL.
The first stage of revival process will focus on increasing the productivity form 20K Tonne a year to 35K Tonne.The revival package will also expected to create additional workforce of 100 people.
SAIL has already taken steps in the above directions.
Let us hope that the SCL will become a profit making company soon and will generate more and more employment opportunities and will further boost the industrial image of Calicut (Kozhikode).

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Shalom Prayer
Shalom is a prayer group with a mission to spread message of Jesus Christ all over the world.Shalom was started in the year 1989 as a small prayer group. Shalom has its main office located In Peruvannamuzhi which is a beautiful village in Calicut district of North Kerala ,India.Shalom has different publications weekly monthly magazines and a Television ministry called Shalom TV.
You can reach shalom from the following Links,

Shalom Ministry
http://www.shalomonline.ne

Shalom TV
http://www.shalomonline.ne

Shalom Retreat
http://www.shalomonline.net/shalom-retreat.htm

Sunday Shalom and Shalom Times
http://www.shalomtimes.com/sunday/index.php

Shalom Tidings
http://www.shalomtidings.com

Shalom TV - USA
http://www.shalomonline.net/shalomtv-usa.htm

Shalom Office address

Shalom
Peruvannamuzhi P O.
Kozhikode Dt., Kerala State, South India. Pin:673 528
Phone: (0496) 2662077, 2663078, 2663079 Fax: 04962663080
Email: info@shalomonline.net

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As a silent spectator of incidents in Kerala like many of the Keralites living outside Kerala I was very happy when the news of Dubai Internet city coming up in Cochin was exposed to the world. But because of the political issues unfortunately it got delayed.

There are lots of Malayalies who are working in software industry who are eager to come back to Kerala, if get a good opportunity to work over there. Let us hope that that dream will come true as early as possible.

The proposed Medical cum IT Township at Kinaloor near Calicut by the Malasian initiative is also bringing hopes to mallus.

The proposed Cyber park of Calicut is also a good initiative towards that, but only God knows when it will become a reality.

It is known that very small entry-level companies (mostly web design companies) are operating from Calicut, mainly catering the local Customers. It is heard that few of them are getting exposed to clients outside Kerala and let us hope that sooner or later they may grow to the level of a software provider.

The main problem of IT companies operating from Kerala, including the companies of Techno park Trivandrum, is that the pay package what they are offering is very low compared to what people are getting in Bangalore or Pune.Also the chances of getting onsite deputation is also very limited unless you are a senior member of the company.

All these blots are forcing software engineers from taking an opportunity to joining companies that are operating from Kerala and this has created a problem among top players who wanted to start a facility from Techno Park or Cochin and now it is heard that companies are planning to offer better packages for those who are ready to join their Kerala campuses.

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• Beypore (10 km south of Kozhikode)

This place has a small port and a beautiful beach.Beypore is also famous for building wooden ship, it is called Dhows or Urus in Malayalam languageand it boasts a tradition of almost 1500 years
You can reach Beypore by :
Road : Beypore is well connected by road and is just 11 km from Calicut.
Air : Calicut airport, is at Karipur and is 23 km from Calicut city centre
Rail : Kozhikode station 10 km apart and Feroke 4 km apart

• Kappad (16 km from Kozhikode)
• Kozhikode Beach
• S M Street
• Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary (25 km from Kozhikode)
• Kakkayam (45 km from Kozhikode)

Kakkayam offers challenging trekking and rock climbing.It is famous for its waterfalls and scenic beauty.One hydro electric project is also there.

• Mananchira
• Kallai

Centuries old wood trade center.Kallai river is famous for its appearence in numerous books,movies,songs and poems

• Peruvannamuzhi (60 km from Kozhikode)
• Vellari Mala

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Shopping centers and famous shopping places in cochin ->

M.G.Road
Jewellery and dressing materials and Shopping and entertainment malls
Broadway
Broadway is always busy and the best buys include clothes and spices. This was the city's busiest commercial centre in the yesteryears.
Marine Drive
Malls and shopping streets
The Jew Street
Spice trade and curio shops.
Kadavanthara & Vytilla
Shopping Malls

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Lots of malls are coming up in Calicut.Most of them hosts multiplexes and global brands.
Still I don't know how many of them are started functioning but according to the friend in Calicut sooner or later Calicut become the 'mall capital ' of North Kerala.
But still I wonder how all these Malls will manage to draw revenue from such a small town like Calicut?
Are they expecting spendthrift IT boys from Bangalore or Gurgaon?
See the list of malls below,

1.Focus Mall -Rajai Road -opposite to moffusil bus station -2.5 LSF
2.Meezan mega mall -Coming up - 4LFT
3.Reliance shopping mall -Mavoor road junction -14 floors
4.Marina mall -YMCA cross raod
5.Space mall - Mavoor road by galaxy builders-1,30,000sq.ft

Folks,add if i missed out any..

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Cochin smart city hopes again rejuvenated on 16th November and Kerala chief minister V.S Achudanandan and Dubai smart city executive director Fareed Abdul Rehman laid the foundation stone.

As they claim this will be the biggest IT park in India once the park is fully functional.I have been to a company which is operating from the media city Dubai for a short assignment of two months.The infrastructure and the facilities is really amazing.
But who knows whether any software giants will be ready to operate from the proposed Cochin smart city?Those who knows the people of Kerala and their eagerness to protest to any 'good' thing by the influence of their political affinity.
Still some political parties are protesting against the smart city project merely to get the political advantage.
Needless to say no one cares about the common man !

Picture courtesy Deepika.com

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These days all Malayalam channels are flooding with reality shows and all channels are making big money out of that.
Innocent viewer who send SMS messages to support their favorite singer doesn't know the fact that the episode what he is watching today might have taken a month ago! Who knows ?
I used to watch the Asianet "Idea Star Singer" particularly when the youngest of all contestant sings.I loved his music ,the feel of his songs,but unfortunately he got out in the 7th round in spite of getting 70+ marks in the singing round.
After that i stopped watching the show..
After all these shows have an important aim to make money rather than entertaining people.Either it is TV Channel or the mobile service provider ,doesn't matter..

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