🏙️🌆🏙️ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Updates 🌆🏙️🌆

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http://www.manoramanews.com/cgi-bin/...tentId=9807727

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Josco's 6th showroom in Trivandrum @ Pazhavangadi

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Shopping centers in Eastfort - Pazhavangadi area contnd...

Aatukal Shopping complex, Eastfort


Josco Diomonds @ Aatukal shopping complex, Eastfort


Josco Jewelers, Eastfort


Kalyan sarees, Eastfort

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Shopping centers in Eastfort - Pazhavangadi area contnd...

Joy Alukkas, East Fort (You can also see Kalyan Sarees on the top left corner)




Big Bazaar, Pazhavangadi





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Building Under Construction Collapses At Thampanoor
http://www.yentha.com/news/view/1/13613

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Cost of Monorail a third of Metro Rail
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The proposed mono rail system, connecting Kazhakkoottam and Balaramapuram, will cost around Rs 1,800 crore, according to rough estimates. Even then, it will be one-third of the cost required to complete a metro rail for the same length.

"Monorail costs around Rs 65 crore per km, while a km of metro rail will cost around Rs 235 crore,’’ said N S Sreenivasan, transport expert and chairman of Transport Advisory Forum, Chennai. In fact, the proposal for Monorail Transport System for the State capital was mooted by Sreenivasan in an article published in the ‘City Express’ a few months ago.

The EIRR (Economic Internal Rate of Return) of the project is likely to be over 20 per cent.

One of the major angles that will be covered in the proposed feasibility study by NATPAC will be the cost factor. Cost, utilisation of minimal space and minimal land acquisition will make the system attractive to the city.

"Among the various mass transportation systems available, viz. mass rapid transit system (underground or elevated rail system - MRTS), monorail and bus rapid transit system, monorail is the most suited system for the volume of passenger traffic and the conditions prevailing on the arterial roads in medium-sized cities like Thiruvananthapuram.

Experience has shown that the MRTS is most suited for large metropolitan cities, where the volume of passenger traffic is very high; whereas, in the case of medium-sized cities, the monorail is less expensive to build than a comparable MRTS of equal capacity,’’ Sreenivasan had noted in the City Express article.

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The building seen with blue glazing will come up as a new restaurant from Aishwarya Hotels. They plan to open more such outlets in the city. We can see the opening in the month of chingam itself.
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Tourism: Chartered flights from Moscow to Thiruvananthapuram
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The capital city of God’s own country is all set to lure a large number of Russian globe-trotters next tourist season. Tour operators Oriental Routes, in collaboration with DR Tours, Moscow, will launch chartered flights from Moscow to Thiruvananthapuram during the forthcoming tourist season from November.

The plan was announced in a press meet held here on Wednesday by a 22-member delegation from Russia consisting of travel agents and mediapersons who had been on an inspection trip to the State. An online inventory management system has been created as a joint collaboration of the two operators to ease the processes for registering the flight for the season.

A Boeing 757 will fly from Moscow to Thiruvananthapuram with around 180 passengers on its first trip. There will be once-in-a- fortnight trips for a period of five months from November. That means, there will be eight to ten chartered flights from Russia to Kerala in the coming tourist season.

The Indo-Russian Confederation of Culture and Tourism was also launched on the occasion.

On the sidelines of promoting tourism, the confederation - a non-profit society - is planning elaborate two-way art, cultural and educational exchange programmes.

“For years, there has been a kind of symbiotic relationship between the two countries. In search of new pastures in higher education, students from India generally fly to Russia and people from Russia come here to learn the nuances of our art and culture, including Ayurveda. The exchange programme, therefore, envisages strengthening of these ties by promoting tourism,” says Varghese Oommen, managing director of Oriental Routes.

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Restaurants/Food Courts/Eateries in Trivandrum.
Ambrosia @ Kowdiar

Image Courtesy : Anish

Let’s Barbeque @ Thycaud

Image Courtesy : The Hindu

Marrybrown @ Panavila

Image Courtesy : trivandrumbuzz.com

Zinc n Rock @ Vanross

Image Courtesy : zincnrock.com

All Spice @ Kuravankonam

Courtesy : Anoop


The classy Ambrosia outlet at Kowdiar or the “musical” Zinc n Rock at Vanross junction or the elegant and professional All Spice at Kuravankonam or the soothing Let’s Barbeque at Thycaud, they are all right up there in the list of restaurants which have that ‘Wow!’ factor. Chic, trendy, comfy and eye-catchy hangouts and eateries have mushroomed in many parts of the city and going by the trend, more are in the offing, especially with Thiruvananthapuram set to graduate into the multiplex-mall era very soon.

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Lets Barbeque puthiyathaano? Thycaud nammude area aanu! Enthayalum pillerem vilichondu ponam.