Saturday, April 27, 2002
Dubai: The payyanurians residing in United Arab Emirates yesterday formed a new organisation called "Payyanur Koottayma" which will be working for the betterment of their hometown and its people. The new group was formed at a get-together of payyanur natives conducted at Dubai under the patronage of Payyanur Dot Com. Sri. Ramesh Payyanur, the program executive of Asianet Radio,P.Gopinath,Janadranadas Kunhimangalam,Smt. Usha Nair and B.Jyothilal addressed the get-together. In the beginning "Payyanur Koottayma" will be working at Duabi & Sharjah. An adhoc committee was also formed to plan the future activities of the forum with Ramesh Payyanur, VP Sasikumar, Bhaskaran Nair, Sreejith, Sunil, Rajendran Kavvayi, Prakasan Kurunthil, and Vinod Kumar as its members. Various cultural programs were also performed at the event.
Thursday, April 25, 2002
Payyanur: Kaithapram Viswanathan Namboothiri bagged this year's Kerala State Film Award for background score. He got this prestigious award for his work in the film "kannaki" directed by Jayaraj. Viwanathan is the brother of noted music director & lyricist Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri. He is running a music institute called "Sruthilaya" at Payyanur. The award details were announced by G.Karthikeyan, the minister for cultural affairs at Thriuvananthapuram today.
Payyanur: The executive committee meeting of the Indian Medical Council held at New Delhi yesterday,recommended permanent recognition for Pariyaram Medical College.The final decision will be taken at the general body meeting of the council to be held on 30th of this month. This action of the IMC is in accordance with the Supreme court's direction to IMC to take decision before 1st May. In the meantime the classes of the seventh MBBS course started at Pariyaram yesterday. Sri. P.Narayanan Nambiar, MD of Pariyaram MC welcomed the new students.
Dubai: The first get-together of Payyanurians in UAE will be held at Dubai tomorrow. The event is organised under the patronage of Payyanur Dot Com's Egroup. The program will start at 10 am. The venue is at "Heart Beats"(mez.floor of Dubai Grand Hotel, Ghusais)Dubai. For more details Sri. VP Sasikumar, the program co-ordinator can be contacted on 050-5484510.
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Payyanur: The Payyanur Co-op Urban Bank filed a case in the High Court of Kerala against the alleged advertisement of RBI warning the customers from banking with the urban bank. RBI's regional director has given advertisement in the leading dailies that the newly started urban banks are illegal and warned the public not to bank with them. The urban banks at Kambil,Thaliparamba and Pilathara also filed similar cases at the high court.
