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International drug smugglers use Indian ports of call as safe houses for concealing heroin sourced from Afghanistan to dodge severe cargo profiling at foreign ports. A shipment from Iran, Pakistan, or Afghanistan will invite a fiercer scrutiny in foreign harbours than cargo from India or Sri Lanka, say officials

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First vessel Europa-2 will become the first foreign cruise ship to berth at the new Sagarika terminal

Emerging Poetry, comprising a group of modern Malayalam poets, announced at their second meeting in Kochi, the launch of their website, emergingpoetry.com, and discussed the need for better translations and other outreach measures

Navaratri festivities get underway with song, dance, cultural shows and food in Kochi

‘Gangsters not involved in six of the seven murders that occurred in the city during the past two months’

Event features lesser-known aspects of Ray’s works and discussions by film personalities, critics

Retired Judge of Madras High Court Justice K. Chandru will speak on ‘Indian Judiciary and Social Inequality’, at first Dakshayani Velayudhan Memorial Lecture organised by the Inter-Disciplinary Centre for Social Justice of the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi, on Monday.

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