Moser Baer Ltd is expanding its home video business. The company plans to come out with Malayalam films in the VCD and DVD formats.

The entry into this market will be with Tiger which has Suresh Gopi, Murali and Gopika as star cast. This will be released in both VCD and DVD formats.
 
 

The Kerala Self-Financing Engineering College Managements Association has decided, not to conduct tests or interviews for admitting students in its allied colleges from the next academic year.

Students finding a place in the merit list brought out by the Commissionerate of Entrance Examinations (CEE), based on their performance in the entrance examination conducted by it, can apply for admission to these colleges.

The admission of the candidate will be based on his/her marks obtained in the public examinations for classes 10 and 12 and the entrance examination conducted by the CEE. The fee will be restructured on the basis of what the Government spends on each engineering student.

 Kalamandalam Gopi (Kathakali), K. P. A. C. Khan (Drama) and T. V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam) have won the Fellowships of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi for 2006.

Sangeetha Nataka Akademi awards for the year went to G. Seethalakshmiammal (classical music), C.Rajendran (violin), Pazhayannur K. G. Krishnankutty (nagaswaram), Alappuzha Chandrasekharan Nair (thalavadyam),

Critising Kerela government for opposing the bifurcation of Palakkad division of southern railways, the Tamil Nadu government on Friday would not allow the neighbouring state to interfere in matters concerning it.

Speaking to reporters here, Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S Arumugam Arumugam said the 84.5 km stretch under a new division proposed to be created with Salem as its headquarters lay within Tamil Nadu, and Kerala has no ground to oppose its creation.

"Such remarks will only provoke people in Tamil Nadu to stop trains towards Kerala and affect relations between the two states," he said.

Parliament has approved the formation of the division, a long standing demand of Tamil people. The foundation-laying ceremony will be held on Tamil new year's day, he said.