THE CHESS MOVES IN THALASSERY

Chess was born in Thalasery in 1974. After the formation of the Thalasery's Chess Club tournaments were organised at the junior and senior levels. Chess progressed in Thalassery under the leadership of N.N. Ahmed Haji. The Thalassery Taj Lodge which he owned became a centre for players in Thalassery.

As the facilities were readily available many players used to reach Thalassery in the weekends and holidays to play the game. One well known player was C.P. Chandhu Nair who invited several players to Thalassery. One of the milestones in the history of Chess in Kerala was the State Chess Championship organised in 1976. A. Shasshidharan of the Thalassery Chess Club was crowned the 'Chess King'. Those who earned fame for Thalassery in chess include V.P. Balaram, K.V. Mohanan and others. Thalassery also hosted the junior and sub junior championships.

THE STRIDES IN FOOTBALL

Both football and cricket took off at the same time in Thalassery. The first football club in India i

tself was found in Thalassery. This club was found in 1860. BEMP School teacher J.D. Sathyanathan,

C.K.P. Kadherkutty and C.P. Hameed functioned office bearers of the club. The presence of fottballers l

ike Annan Mukundhan, Dhamu Pachene Kumaran, Viyanadan Sankaran, O.V. Amarnath and 

Krikil Koru was a source of inspiration for people in Thalassery.

One of the footballer Hammed was the member of the States School Team. The only living member o

f the Thalassery footabll club is Garjan Obuty. The first player from Thalassery to participate in the S

anthosh Trophy was V.B. Ishak. He played for FACT for ten year and was the captain for three years.

Ishak is now the Secretary of the Kannur District Gymnastick Association.

THE CRICKET IN THALASSERY

Sir Arthur Wellesly, later Duke of Wellington introduced cricket in thalassery, sometime 

during the last decade of the eighteenth century. He did not have enough players in his e

stablishment. He got his persons, dhobies who washed his clothes near the well 

in one corner of the Thalassery stadium, fisherfolk from their colony and many others 

to make up the numbers. It took more than half a century (1860) for the first cricket club, 

Tellicherry Town Cricket Club, to be formed.

In 1890, Tellicherry and Cannanore played a cricket match at Cannanore. Murkoth 

Kumaran also took part in that match. Tellicherry team had walked to Cannanore

to play that match and returned on foot late at night.

In 1912 the first proper pitch was laid at Thalassery stadium by an Enlgish Engineer 

Anson.

Cricket was not only a way of life but was also a leveller where people of all castes, c

reeds, vocations and class joined together. Most of the British officials like the Sub Co

llector, Collector, S.P., Managers of British comapnies played cricket with indians.

Those were the days when India had not entered the test arena, Ranji trophy t

ournaments and others that followed, had not been heard of in the country.

In November 2008, modern and exclusive cricket stadium developed at Conorvayal
was inaugurated. First Ranji Trophy match at stadium was on 03-11-09 between Kerala
and Andhra. Indian pace bowler Sreesanth played in this match.

kannur university

 Kannur University was established by the Act 22 of 1996 of Kerala Legislative Assembly. The University by the name “Malabar University” had come into existence even earlier by the promulgaton of an Ordinance by the Governor of Kerala, on 9^th November 1995. 
The University was inaugurated on 2^nd March 1996 by the Hon. Chief Minister of Kerala.
The objective of the Kannur University Act 1996 is to establish in the state of Kerala a teaching, residential and affiliating University so as to provide for the development of higher education in Kasargod and Kannur revenue Districts and the Mananthavady Taluk of Wayanad District.

             Kannur University is unique in the sense that it is a multi-campus university with campuses located at various locations under its jurisdiction. 

The Act envisages that the University shall establish, maintain, manage and develop campuses at Kannur, Kasargod, mananthavady, payyannur, Thalassery, kanhangad and such other places as are necessary for providing study and research facilities to promote advanced knowledge in Science and Technology and other relevant disciplines.

Prof. (Dr.) M.Abdul Rahiman was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University from 01.01.1996 to 31.12.1999.

Prof. (Dr.) M.Abdul Rahiman was succeeded by the Prof. (Dr.) P. K.Rajan who assumed office on 15th May 2000.

            After the successful completion of his tenure of office of Dr. P.K. Rajan on 14^th May 2004, Dr. M.O. Koshy, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor was given the additional charge of Vice-Chancellor till 16^th August 2004. Thereupon Prof. Dr. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calicut was appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Kannur University also with effect from 17^th August 2004.

DR. P. Chandramohan who was the Vice-Chancellor of the University for the period from 28-February 2005 to 27 February 2009.
P.K. MICHAEL THARAKAN Present Vice Chancellor

marry x-mas

Kerala promotes Budget Travel with Jet2Kerala

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June 21st, 2009

In Kerala,  Tourism is a major source of revenue and our Government is taking all the right steps to bring in tourists from across the country with budget in their minds.
The campaign called Jet2Kerala is a partnership with Jet Airways and Kerala Tourism Department and they have created new travel packages for travellers within India who are looking to visit Kerala on cheaper and affordable rates.

According to the official site:

Jet2Kerala is an innovative joint promotion to make Kerala, renowned as God’s Own Country, more accessible to holidayers through holiday packages at never-before rates including highly discounted two way airfares on Jet Airways to the three gateway cities of Trivandrum, Cochin and Calicut from anywhere in India.

With this deal you can get a packaged deal which has everything from your flight tickets, pickup and drop at airports, sightseeing and staying in luxurious hotels in a single bindle. This will not only remove all your travel related headaches and it will be more affordable than paying for these individually.
If you are a travel freak and want to know more about this new innovative campaign, click here. It will be fun to see what type of offers Kerala Govt. will have to promote tourism in Kannur once our very own airport comes out.

Literary camp to begin tomorrow

 A three-day literary camp for young writers organised by the Kerala Sahithya Akademi will be held at Parassinikkadavu here from December 18.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the organisers of the event said Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan would inaugurate the camp. They said 140 young writers and nearly 125 noted writers would attend the camp, being organised to encourage young writers.
Akademi chairperson P. Valsala will preside over the inaugural function. Writers and literary critics will conduct classes on language, Malayalam literary history, Malayalam drama, poetry, literature in cyber space, narrative techniques, literature and secularism, etc.

Roads to be repaired by month-end: Minister

Public Works Minister M. Vijayakumar said here on Thursday that all damaged roads in the State would be repaired by the month-end.
Addressing a district-level crisis management review meeting at the Collectorate here on Thursday, he said instructions had been given to complete all repairs on roads. A sum of Rs.718 crore had been allocated by the government for road repairs. The works would be completed on a war footing, he said.
Announcing that the tender period was extended to 14 days, the Minister said works estimated up to Rs.2 crore would be sanctioned at the district level. He also announced that the government had sanctioned a Rs.399-crore project to upgrade the existing roads. The quality control maintenance and vigilance mechanisms of the PWD would be strengthened, Mr. Vijayakumar said.
The review meeting also discussed development of access roads to the Kannur airport site and maintenance of roads to tourism destinations. He discussed with officials the progress of the construction of 28 bridges.

VS to lay stone for kannur airport today

 


Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan will lay the foundation stone for the Kannur International Airport at the project site near Mattannur on Friday.
Since the airport is a longstanding dream of the people here, elaborate arrangements have been made for the stone-laying function. Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel will preside.
A helipad has been arranged at the ground of the PRNSS College at Mattannur for the arrival of Mr. Patel on Friday morning. The venue has facilities to accommodate around 10,000 people.
The function will be held at 11 a.m. Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran will inaugurate the construction of the perimeter wall of the project site. Minister of State for Railways E. Ahamed will release the logo of the airport project.

Frozen Pudding Pops

Ingredients

• 2 cups low-fat or skim milk
• 1 small box of instant pudding

Directions

Prepare pudding according to package directions. Freeze in pop molds or spoon into small paper cups and insert popsicle sticks or plastic spoons. Place in freezer until solid.