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IBS Inaugurates its New Campus at Technopark, Trivandrum
Saturday, 27 October, 2007
IBS Software Services, a leading global provider of new-generation IT solutions to the Travel, Transportation and Logistics industry, inaugurated its fully-owned campus at Technopark, today. The facility was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri. V S Achuthanandan. Also present on the occasion were Shri. Oommen Chandy, MLA, Leader of the Opposition, Shri. C Ajayakumar, Secretary IT, Government of Kerala, Shri. Radhakrishnan Nair, CEO, Technopark and CEOs and heads of various companies in Technopark, among others."The support of the State Government and the excellent infrastructure available at Technopark and Infopark have encouraged us to maintain Kerala as the hub for our India operations. The State is emerging as a key IT destination and IBS' growth over a decade is testimony to our belief in Kerala." said VK Mathews, Chairman & Managing Director, IBS Group. "This campus at Trivandrum, marks a beginning for the next level of our aggressive growth plans, as we aim to grow into a Rs 1000 Crores company by 2010. We also have plans to set up other campuses within Kerala in Cochin and Calicut and to open development centers outside the State." he added. The facility just inaugurated, is the first of four blocks in the IBS campus, spread over 5.26 acres of land within Technopark. With a built-up area of approx 4,50,000 square feet, the Campus will accommodate over 4,000 professionals in a spacious, self-sufficient, modern work-environment. Two multi-storey office blocks, an activity center, an open-air theater,
cafeteria and parking lots are to be completed in the next phase. The campus is expected to cost Rs 125 Cr and will be completely operational by 2009. IBS has developed the Campus under the SEZ Scheme as an approved co-developer, and the first phase has been completed at a record pace. The state-of-the-art facility, apart from accommodating developers and engineers, will house the Company's ASP datacenter from where application
services will be provided to its customers world-wide. IBS India currently operates out of two hundred thousand square feet of office space in three buildings within the Technopark, Trivandrum and two buildings within Infopark, Cochin. IBS also has two development centers outside the country in London and Washington DC in addition to its global business centers situated at Atlanta, Phoenix, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Melbourne, Sydney. Labels: Business, Thiruvananthapuram
Community Police Will Coming Soon
Wednesday, 24 October, 2007
Thiruvananthapuram: Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan told that community policing will come to existence next January to lessen the burden of policemen who are on duty in stations. He said that,plan to introduce this concept of policing in at least one place in each of the 14 districts. Policemen will be trained for this next month and detailed talks will be held with elected representatives in December to ensure that it is smoothly implemented by January, the minister told reporters after a meeting with police officials. Kodiyeri said that police stations would now conduct speedy verifications before issuing passports instead of the special branch department.Labels: Government, Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala hotel's tryst with tall sandwich
Tiruvanathapuram (Kerala), Oct 17 (ANI): A hotel here has made a 50 feet high sandwich after a 10-hour long hard work in an effort to make it to the Guinness Book of World Records. Forty-two employees of the Uday Samudra Leisure Resort at Kovalam readied a record-breaking sandwich, which is eight feet taller than the previous held record made by O'Brien's, an Irish Sandwich Bar that made a 42-feet tall sandwich in 2003.
Rajagopal Iyer, the corporate director of the resort said, that the employees started making the sandwich at 12 noon on Tuesday and it was completed by 10.30 p.m."We are presenting this sandwich to the entire nation as a gift. For quite sometime now, no record has been created on food products in India. We have done this, made the sandwich and broken the world record," said Iyer.
The giant sandwich has 350 slices of bread, each slice measuring 2.5 x 2.5 feet and weighing 6 kilograms.It required 45 kilograms each of cucumber and tomatoes, 40 kilograms each of boneless chicken, sausage, ham, apple and mayonnaise sauce.
Further, around 25 kilograms of fish, 75 kilograms of lettuce leaves, 35 kilograms of onions and 150 kg of butter were used.
"We had some problem initially, but we broke the sandwich record eventually. A ground staff officer and one manager were also a part of this team," added Iyer.
This giant sandwich is all set to break the world record. Also, this attempt to make the world's tallest sandwich coincided with World Food Day, which is celebrated on October 16. (ANI) Labels: Thiruvananthapuram, Tourism
Govt. Not To Enhance Pay
Thiruvanthapuram: The Government ruled out enhancing the pay of doctors in the state, even as the Kerala Government Medical Officers' Association (KGMOA) said it will continue with its non-cooperation agitation.Addressing newspersons in Thiruvananthapuram, Finance Minister Thomas Issac and Health Minister P K Sreemathi said the entry cadre scale could not be revised and asked the KGMOA to call off its agitation. The government would hold another round of discussions with the doctors on Wednesday, Dr Issac said. The government had already taken 'necessary steps' to ensure that doctors attended to their duties.Labels: Health, Thiruvananthapuram
Criminal charges against Coca-Cola India
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct.15 (ANI): The Kerala Government has initiated the process of filing criminal charges against Coca-Cola India for spreading pollution through its distilleries.
In a notice sent to Coca-Cola India last week, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) asked the company to show cause as to why a criminal case should not be filed against it for polluting the environment. The company has been given two weeks to respond. The state government action comes in the wake of a longstanding demand that Coca-Cola must also be held criminally liable for the damages it has caused to the community in Plachimada, where it has a bottling plant.
Coca-Cola’s bottling plant in Plachimada, one of its largest in India, has been shut down since March 2004 as a result of community opposition to the plant. The community has accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant of creating severe water shortages and polluting the water and the soil – directly as a result of its operations in the area. “We are encouraged by the action of the government to hold Coca-Cola criminally liable for the damages it has caused in Plachimada,” said R. Ajayan, convener of the Plachimada Solidarity Committee who was key in getting the government to take action. “We are confident that Coca-Cola will be prosecuted for the crimes it has committed in India.”
Coca-Cola India has dismissed the notice, describing it as “unwarranted and arbitrary.” The company’s spokesperson, Mr. Ameer Shahul, has claimed that the plant was a “zero-discharge” plant during its operation and that all studies carried out in the last four years had found no traces of pollution. The facts, however, suggest otherwise.
The primary reason that the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Plachimada remains shut down is because it is unable to obtain the “consent to operate” permit from the Kerala State Pollution Control Board because of widespread pollution found by the regulatory agency. On August 19, 2005, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board ordered the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. bottling plant in south India to “stop production of all kinds of products with immediate effect.”
The Pollution Control Board noted that the company has yet to explain the large amounts of cadmium in its sludge, which is contaminating the groundwater, making it unfit for human consumption. In addition, tests by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as well as Outlook magazine have both confirmed the pollution by Coca-Cola company in Plachimada.
In October 2003, the Central Pollution Control Board of India also confirmed high levels of heavy metals in Coca-Cola’s sludge, which the company was distributing to farmers as “fertilizer”.
Coca-Cola’s contention that the plant was a zero-discharge facility contradicts the government as well as independent studies. “We are glad that the Coca-Cola fiasco in India is taking its natural course of finding the company criminally liable for the damages it has caused,” said Amit Srivastava of the India Resource Center, an international campaigning organization. “We also strongly feel that the Coca-Cola company should be further held criminally liable for the complete distortion of facts it is making today,” Srivastava said. (ANI)Labels: Thiruvananthapuram
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