CPPR in the News

September 5, 2013

Industry taken aback by 30-m plan, The Hindu

  Industry taken aback by 30-m plan, The Hindu, Sept 2nd 2013   Widening the National Highway stretches through Kerala to just 30 metres, instead of the 45 metres planned earlier, is feared to badly affect the development of the […]
September 4, 2013

Ms Susan Zielinski, MD, SMART, Michigan University launches CPPR Urban Centre

Ms Susan Zielinski, MD, SMART, Michigan University launches CPPR Centre for Urban Studies  on September 2nd, 2013 in Kochi, Kerala. Through the focus study centre, CPPR offers to provide a strong solution base with a key emphasize on the mobility that influences […]
September 4, 2013

Mobility Grid Plan being prepared, The New Indian Express

Mobility Grid Plan being prepared, The New Indian Express, 3rd September 2013   In order to offer better connectivity between various transport facilities of the city, a ‘Mobility Grid’ plan is being prepared for Kochi.   Susan Zielinski, the Managing […]
August 30, 2013

Public transport system calls for a new roadmap, The Hindu

Public transport system calls for a new roadmap, The Hindu, 28th August 2013   As the district gears up to observe yet another edition of Bus Day on Thursday, debate is on as to how far these ritualistic observations go […]
August 29, 2013

CPPR partner’s with Jeevika, Livelihood Documentary Film Festival

CPPR is the supporting partner of Jeevika, Livelihood Documentary Film Festival 2013 to be held in Delhi at Indian Habitat Centre from 29th August to September 1st. For more details click on to http://jeevika.org/festival/partner/ Organised by Centre for Civil Society (CCS) aims, […]
August 20, 2013

CPPR Centre for Strategic Studies launched

CPPR Centre for Strategic Studies was launched on 16th August 2013 by Prof K.C Abraham, Academic Director, CPPR. During the launch, Dr D. Dhanuraj, Chairman, CPPR mentioned the need for a focused research approach so as to identify and resolve […]
August 19, 2013

‘U.S.-ASEAN ties crucial’, The Hindu

‘U.S.-ASEAN ties crucial’, The Hindu, 19th, August, 2013 http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/usasean-ties-crucial/article5037088.ece Ernest Bower, Senior Advisor and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington D.C., spoke about pitfalls in U.S.A’s post-Cold War strategies and more at […]
August 9, 2013

Sovereignty and Counter-terrorism

By Ms Elizabeth Dominic* Maintenance of the Sovereignty of a nation and the measures implemented to combat terrorism, in today’s scenario, are often getting into the way of each other. With the advent of the nuclear weapons that can destroy […]
August 5, 2013

Mr J.M Lyngdoh, Former Election Commissioner to deliver next CPPR Quarterly Lecture

Mr J.M Lyngdoh, Former Election Commissioner will deliver the next CPPR Quarterly Lecture on October 4th, 2013 at Kochi. Mr Lyngdoh known for its uprightness have also headed the Committee to study Campus Politics in India; which paved way for […]
August 5, 2013

India: Behind the graveyard of multi-billion Dollar FDI MoUs, D.Dhanuraj at Commodity Online

Article at Commodity Online (http://www.commodityonline.com/) on July 18, 2013   By Rakesh Neelakandan The day POSCO decided that it would exit the $5 billion Karnataka steel mill project was the day when India’s Finance Minister decided to give a red carpet […]
August 1, 2013

Launch of CPPR Centre for Urban Studies

Ms Susan Zielinski,  will launch CPPR Focus Study Centre in the arena of Mobility and Urban Studies on August 26th, 2013. Ms Susan is the Managing Director of SMART of Michigan University. She is an active proponent of smart mobility for […]
August 1, 2013

Launch of CPPR Centre for Strategic Studies

    CPPR will be launching its Focus Study Centre in the realm of Security and Strategy; The Centre for Strategic Studies on August 16th in Kochi. The launch will be marked by a lecture entitled, ‘Prospects of ASEAN in […]
July 23, 2013

The National Investigation Agency and the Enrica Lexie case

by Ravishankar. M* The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was established by the NIA Act which was passed by the Indian Parliament in 2008. It is envisaged as an agency “to investigate and prosecute offences affecting the sovereignty, security and integrity […]
July 17, 2013

Dr Chandra Ranade,Virginia International University to launch CPPR Centre for Comparative Studies in India

Dr Chandra Ranade,Virginia International University will launch The “CPPR Centre for Comparative Studies in India“ at Kochi on September 6th, 2013 at 4 pm at Bharat Hotel (BTH), Kochi, Kerala. He will also deliver lecture on “Various Indicators of Economic Development at State Level […]
July 16, 2013

Transport still a problem for IT hub, Times of India

  Times of India, 16th July 2013 KOCHI: Despite the efforts of various agencies, alternative transport initiatives like carpooling and Bus Day have failed due to certain shortcomings and coordination issues. Both ideas were promoted to encourage public transport and […]