Archbishop installation on April 11

KOCHI: Preparations are on for the installation of Dr. Francis Kallarakkal as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Varappuzha on April 11.A 30,000 sq. ft. temporary auditorium is being readied at St. Alberts Higher Secondary School grounds where the installation ceremonies will be led by Cardinal Telesphore Placidus Toppo of Ranchi.The Archbishop-designate will be received at Edavanakkad on April 10, a day ahead of his installation, said a press release here.

Consumer expo opened

KOCHI: Cochin Global village, a consumer expo, was opened at the Jawaharlal Nehru international stadium on Thursday. The 18-day shopping and entertainment extravaganza will be open on weekdays from 1 p.m to 9 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Entry to the fair is restricted through tickets

Madhavikutty ploughed a lonely furrow

KOCHI: Writer Zacharia has said that the late writer Madhavikutty, who later became Kamala Suraiya, was an � ottayal [which roughly translates into maverick] in life and writing. In totality, her personality was set apart by unflinching modernity, democratic consciousness, humanism and secularism with which she waged a lonesome battle against Keralas conservative hypocrisy, said Mr. Zacharia, while delivering the Kamala Suraiya memorial speech on her 76 {+t} {+h} birthday as part of a �Snehasamgamam organised by DC Books at the basement of the late writers apartment. Calling her a �collective personality given the multifarious

Supreme Court Bench sought

KOZHIKODE: The South India chapter of National Lawyers Forum has demanded that the Centre take steps to establish a Supreme Court Bench in South India on the basis of the recommendation of the 18th Law Commission. A meeting of the forum here on Thursday pointed out that the commission had recommended four Benches.

Work to begin after environmental clearance

KOZHIKODE: The coming weeks of April will witness significant developments at both the cyber parks coming up in the district. While the draft master plan for the development of the UL CyberPark will be presented on April 15 by the Japan-based architectural firm Nikken Sekkei, a decision on the selection of the architect for the Government Cyber Park is also expected within two weeks. The initial concept for the master plan of the UL CyberPark, coming up on a 25-acre Special Economic Zone near Nellicode, was made by the Japanese firm to the promoters, Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS), and the implementing architects for the project, C.R. Narayana Rao (CRN) and RAND Associates in the last week of February.

Asin to become brand ambassador of Kerala IPL

TPURAM: Actress Asin Thotumkal is set to become the brand ambassador of Kerala IPL team next year. One of the owners of the team Vivek Venugopal told Kerala Kaumudi that brand ambassador would be officially declared after fixing team�s name and jersey.

Kerala Youth Congress election schedule on April 8

NEW DELHI: Election schedule of the Kerala unit of Youth Congress will be declared on April 8 at Thiruvananthapuram, said Nyamar Karbak who is in charge of Kerala Youth Congress.