Here is what a couple of young Kochiites think about women safety after wee hours in the city. “Kochi is still not safe for women to travel after 7 p.m. When a girl walks on the road after dusk, men still tend to look at them in a negative way, and that is definitely not safe”, says Jerry Sequira, who works with a private organization in Kochi . “We have a long way to go. Government and cops need to be more strict and vigilant to protect women”, added Jerry. Devika Kumar, who lives in Kochi says “Kochhites need to change their attitude. Kochi is progressing in the party front and girls do night-outs with friends. Accept that we have come a long way from just being a small town”.

We all know how unsafe it still is for women to travel after dark, not just in Kochi but any metro for that matter. But Kochiites need to change their attitudes as well! What do you think about this!?

So here is the good news! They are starting their new extension at Infopark, Kakkanad. This time, EPL is all set to make the IT section of our city read and enlighten them. Reading a book is undoubtedly a stress-buster. So if too much of programming, uploads and downloads have eaten your brains, try soothing it by reading a novel! You cannot get hold of a better collection of books, other than from our very own Ernakulam Public Library. EPL is on the look-out to start a new extension at Kadavanthra as well.

The extensions at Chakkaraparambu and High Court function two days every month. The response that the organizers have been receiving is truly encouraging, facilitating them to open up EPL in other parts of the city. So Kochi book-lovers, keep watching out for their extensions. Maybe a new one would be located right next to your home!

With IT prosperity and businesses reigning our city, Kochi has much to boast about. We need to fit into the struggle. That does not require a special say does it? Counterparts Trivandrum and Calicut are rated 17 and 21 respectively. According to the surveyors, this helps in finding the solutions for socio-economic problems that prevail in our society.

This ranking has been based on many factors. The key variables that have been used for the survey includes conditions which are financial, physical, administrative along with the communication factors as well.

Delhi is rated the most competitive city, followed by Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai and it goes on. Now since you know that there are so much of competitions happening around you, better tighten your shoe-laces and get ready for the real race in the corporate jungle.

The winner will get an attractive cash prize and a memento too. Infopark has never held a project which the general public can also take part in, and this is their first initiative. The names should be unique and something which helps in being facilitated as a marketing tool as well.

So if you have any names, mail it to info@infoparkkochi.com. Who knows, you might be the lucky one. Do not miss this!

Ahmed Mohammed Al Midfa, Chairman, SCCI and Siddhartha Bhattacharya, CEO, Infopark, signed the MoU at the ‘India & Sharjah – Partners in Progress’ event held at the premises of the Chamber premises in Sharjah on Friday.

The Sharjah Science and Technology Innovation Centre will be set up in the Infopark campus at Kochi.

The Centre is envisaged as a platform to provide Sharjah-based business houses access to talent and knowledge-based resources in Kerala.

The main objective is to help small and medium enterprises in Sharjah conduct research and development for the development of innovative products and services in a cost effective manner. India has been a major trading partner of the UAE and is an ideal choice for a venture of this sort. The State of Kerala boasts of some of the leading research institutes of India working in diverse fields like space technology, biotechnology and engineering sciences. The new initiative will facilitate the joint production of value-added solutions.  The innovation centre would facilitate direct collaboration in research activities between businesses in Sharjah and universities in Kerala. The MoU also involves a partnership mechanism to commercialise the benefits of the research.