Kerala to become Keralam: What it means, the history and significance of the wordKeralam Meaning: The Union Cabinet has approved renaming Kerala to Keralam, aligning its English name with local Malayalam pronunciation. T...
24 Feb, 2026, 03.40 PM IST
Coconuts from India have fuelled a centuries-old tradeCoconuts from India have played a central role in global trade for centuries, travelling alongside spices on ships bound for Europe. Once s...
31 Aug, 2025, 05.59 PM IST
Kerala's culinary identity in crisis as major coconut crunch throws cooking out of gearWhen thieves start forming organised gangs to steal coconuts from trees, you know something has gone wrong with the commodity market. In Ke...
27 Jul, 2025, 12.17 PM IST
Coconut falls on hard times in GoaAttacks by pests, and farmer's disinclination to cultivate coconuts, has caused coconut prices to surge in Goa, putting the nut beyond the ...
28 Jan, 2018, 04.52 PM IST
No reinventions, no pretence: Few Bengalurean eateries survive explosive F&B tideEateries like Ebony, Coconut Grove, Tandoor & Koshy’s have stuck to their guns and survived for decades.
14 Nov, 2017, 04.50 PM IST
NIA releases Church Street blast suspect video after a yearAfter more than a year, NIA released CCTV footage of the suspect involved in December 28, 2014 Church Street bomb blast which killed Chenna...
14 Jan, 2016, 07.48 PM IST
Bengaluru blast; investigators zero in on terror groupsThe IED wrapped in a plastic bag and placed in a bushy plant went off around 8.30 PM on the fateful night in front of Coconut Grove restaur...
16 Feb, 2015, 09.52 PM IST
Woman killed, 3 injured in explosion outside B'luru restaurantThe IED wrapped in a plastic bag and suspected to have been placed in a bushy plant went off around 8.30 PM in front of Coconut Grove resta...
29 Dec, 2014, 07.35 AM IST
Blast rocks Bengaluru as two hurt in explosion outside restaurantTwo persons were injured, one of them seriously, in an explosion triggered by an IED tonight in front of a popular restaurant in the heart ...
28 Dec, 2014, 10.53 PM IST
Indian Navy's UAV crashes due to technical snagNaval Commander Abhijit Bhargattagi said the UAV, named Search 922, crashed while returning after several sorties due to some technical sna...
13 Dec, 2013, 08.57 PM IST
Cos plan cooperative coconut farming on lines of AmulFarmers pool resources to look after plantations, buy inputs through bargains & combat labour shortage by using machines to pluck coconuts ...
23 Sep, 2013, 11.24 AM IST
Power units shut down as fire rages in coconut groveOfficials said the fire started from a coconut grove at Valanthurai and spread fast helped by strong winds around last mid-night.
02 Jun, 2013, 04.32 PM IST
- Value addition will help coconut farmers: Romulo N Arancon, The Asian and Pacific Coconut Community
Producing more value-added products from coconut will increase the income of the farmers. The Philippines and Sri Lanka have been quite suc...
06 Jul, 2012, 03.05 PM IST
- Value addition will help coconut farmers: Romulo N Arancon, Executive Director, APCC
There is intense competition from other remunerative crops. In Malaysia, cultivation of oil palms is on the rise, says Romulo N Arancon.
06 Jul, 2012, 08.26 AM IST
Why India should corporatise Kerala's coconutKerala, and India, hasn't really cracked the full potential of this hard nut. But as the world wakes up to this rehydrating, natural, energ...
26 Feb, 2012, 01.47 AM IST
- Going nuts over it! The Obama visit
The man whom Churchill once called “a half-naked fakir” would have been even more vulnerable to falling coconuts than Obama.
06 Nov, 2010, 05.17 AM IST
In Kerala it's the price, not coconuts, that fallKerala govt offers mlns for harvesting coconuts without human climbing.
22 Dec, 2009, 06.09 PM IST