The Museum-Nanthencode Road was immeresed under silt and mud from the aritficial lake inside the zoo late this evening. Silt has gathered in the artificial lake located within the zoo premises and this raised the level of water. In the evening the slush breached the  zoo walls and flooded the road halting taffic. An Omni van and a bike which were parked near the wall  were caught under the silt and rescue works are on.

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The Omni that got crushed under the wall

After the 6th DC Books International Bookfair last month now its the Time for another International Book fair. The Cuban Ambassador to India Mr. Miguel Angel Ramirez Ramos inaugurated the 3rd Trivandrum International Book fair today at Kanakakunnu. Minister Sri M.A.Baby presided over the meeting.The Trivandrum International Bookfair is organized by the Kerala State Institute of Children’s Literature. This time representatives from Frankfurt Book fair is also attending the bookfair. They will discuss the possibility of collaborating with Trivandrum International bookfair.

TrivandrumBuzz team visited the Book fair at the Exhibition Ground of Kanakakunnu today. A huge Bookshaped cutout welcomed us at th entrance.The book contained a chapter from Ramayana describing the prosperity of Lanka. Almost 90%of the stalls were occupied today afternoon.

A children’s film festival, in association with Bonjour India  showcasing French animation films is also organised as part of the Book Fair.The childrens film festival will begin at 3.30pm everyday.there is no entrance fee for the bookfair and the film festival.53 films covering 5 different themes will be screened during the festival

Conference on copyright scenario

A conference on the copyright scenario and copyright information will held on December 21. It will be attended by Alice Grégoire from the book department of the French embassy in India.

Some snaps from the Book fair venue taken by Trivandrumbuzz team

Kerala Microsoft Users Group -(KMUG)  is organising a seminar on the 19th of december 2009 at Zenith hall, UST Global, Technopark Trivandrum,Kerala.

There will be sessions on Social Media, practical  Search Engine Optimisation,C# 4.0 and silverlight. There is no Registration fee but there are only limited seats. For registration Click Here

Google internet bus was in the city and team trivandrumbuzz was running around to catch the latest buzz to hit the city. Well our persistence paid and at last we found that the bus was parked at Shangumugham beach and we headed straight to the place armed with our camera.We did spot the bus parked to a side of the beach from a long distance and yes we were exited to hit it straight away. We entered the bus and three pretty girls along with two hunks all from Google team Hyderabad went around explaining the nuances of internet.

We soon found out the internet bus had nothing exciting to offer us techies for we are all familiar with Google and the power of internet  but alas the ladies took  time on enlightening us why this caravan moved around the country. The reason of course was to enlighten the mass about the powers of internet and internet giant Google.

Anyone who wanted a quick class on internet and the power of the search engine was offered with clear cut explanations including live demos. Yes folks live internet demos; the caravan is loaded with gadgets to bring the power of the internet to the people.  Large LCD screens dotted the inside of the caravan walls, satellite based internet and a whole lot of other gadgets made the internet experience a pleasurable one. The caravan is on the go and the team plans to visit the schools in the city and do catch them if you want your cup of internet mocha.

The Bus will be parked near Thampanoor tomorrow (16th Dec 2009) morning and will be at the museum in the afternoon. they will be heading to Thrissur day after tomorrow

An exhibition on women in Malayalam Cinema was held at Kanakakunnu Palace on 12/12/09. The exhibition was inagurated by eminent film personality Sharmila Tagore. The exhibition was a tribute to the women who sacrificed much for the sake of industry.  The exhibition salutes the spirit of the women in Malayalam film industry. A video of the event shot exclusively by the Trivandrumbuzz team is shown here. The exhibition was held as a part of the International Film Festival of Kerala.

An enlightning seminar on the ongoing COP15 summit at Copenhagen Demark was held today at the rpess club in Trivandrum. The seminar was conducted under the guidance of ISRA. The seminar was inaugurated by Shri Ramesh Chennithala KPCC President. Mr Binoy Viswam honourable minister for forest and environment gave the inagural speech. Mr. K.C Oomen, social activist Sugathakumary ,former minister M.M.Hassan and others gave their views on the ngoing event in Copenhagen and what we should do to make it better.

The 14th international film festival festival of Kerala got underway here in Trivandrum. The opening film of the festival was 7 years directed by Jean-Pascal Hattu a french film under the new directors category. Delegates thronged the various venues where the movies where screened. Going by the influx of movie enthusiast this festival is already a huge hit as people from various related industries attended the inaguration and the subsequent screening of movies. Registration is closed as of now and reservations for those who already registered is available by logging into www.iffk.in.

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open source, extensible programming language. It combines clarity and readability, making it an extremely powerful language that can be used for various applications and problems. The Scipy.in is a conference providing opportunities to spread the use of the Python programming language in the Scientific Computing community in India. It provides a unique opportunity to interact with the “Who’s who” of the Python for Scientific Computing fraternity and learn, understand, participate and contribute what is happening in the realms of Scientific Computing using Python . The theme on focus is scientific teaching in Python.

Important dates

• Friday, Nov. 20: Abstracts Due.
• Friday, Nov. 27: Announce accepted talks, post schedule.
• Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 12-13 Conference.
• Monday-Tuesday, Dec. 14-15 Tutorials.
• Wednesday-Thursday, Dec. 16-17 Sprints.

Organizers

• Jarrod Millman, Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley (USA)(Conference Co-Chair)
• Prabhu Ramachandran, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, India (Conference Co-Chair)
• FOSSEE Team
• SPACE-Kerala

Sponsors

• National Mission on Education (NME) through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Government of India
• Kerala State IT Mission(KSITM)
• SIG-FOSS Of CSI

The conference is proposed to be held at the Technopark in Trivandrum, keeping in mind accessibility, the number of attendees and the location, among other aspects to be considered.