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NRE vs NRO Account: Which One Do Kochi's NRIs Actually Need?
NRI deposits in Kerala banks hit Rs 3.24 lakh crore by March 2026; NRE interest is tax-free, NRO interest face…
23 September 2026 · 4 min read
Haila Kochi
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How Many Onam Bumper Tickets Are Sold, and Where Does the Money Go?
Kerala sold over 76 lakh Onam Bumper tickets worth Rs 384 crore as of September 2026. Here is where the money …
21 September 2026 · 6 min read
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GST Registration in Kochi: A Small Business Walkthrough
Most GST applicants must complete Aadhaar authentication, and a clean application typically clears in 3 to 7 w…
21 September 2026 · 4 min read
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Kudumbashree in Kochi: How Kerala's Women's Mission Actually Works
Kudumbashree runs on 20-40 woman neighbourhood groups and Rs 20 canteen meals. How the mission works in Kochi …
19 September 2026 · 4 min read
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How Much Does an Onam Bumper Winner Actually Take Home?
A Rs 30 crore prize does not pay out Rs 30 crore. The exact commission, TDS, surcharge and cess math behind an…
18 September 2026 · 5 min read
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Cochin Port Authority: How One of India's Oldest Working Ports Runs
Kochi's port dates to 1928, took its current name in 2021, and moved over 37 million tonnes of cargo in 2024-2…
14 September 2026 · 3 min read
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The Cochin Stock Exchange: What It Was, and Why It Shut Down
Kochi ran India's fourth-largest stock exchange in the 1990s, trading up to Rs 100 crore a day. SEBI shut it o…
5 September 2026 · 4 min read
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HMT Kalamassery: The Factory That Still Makes Machines in Kochi
HMT's Kalamassery unit has built machine tools since 1965, and in 2014 it started making naval gear systems fo…
3 September 2026 · 3 min read
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FACT at Udyogamandal: India's First Fertiliser Company, Explained
Founded in 1943 as India's first large scale fertiliser company, FACT nearly collapsed in the 2010s and is sti…
1 September 2026 · 4 min read
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Where to Actually Work From in Kochi If You Do Not Have an Office
Where Kochi remote workers and small teams can actually get a desk without an office: Workshaala in Infopark, …
30 August 2026 · 5 min read
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The Business of Onam in Kochi: Broadway, Kakkanad and What Actually Moves
Onam is Kerala's single biggest retail season, and Kochi's share of it runs through Broadway's thousand shopfr…
25 August 2026 · 4 min read
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Inside CSEZ: The Special Economic Zone That Kickstarted Kakkanad
CSEZ predates Infopark by two decades and still runs jewellery, electronics and garment exports from Kakkanad.…
23 August 2026 · 4 min read
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Kochi's Puthuvype LNG Terminal: How South India's Only Gas Import Hub Works
Petronet's terminal at Puthuvype supplies gas across south India, but the pipeline meant to carry that gas inl…
22 August 2026 · 5 min read
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Cochin Shipyard: What Kochi's Own Shipyard Actually Builds
Cochin Shipyard built India's first aircraft carrier and keeps launching Navy vessels every few weeks. Here is…
18 August 2026 · 4 min read
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The Ambalamugal Refinery: What BPCL Actually Makes in Kochi
It lights up the eastern edge of the city after dark and almost nobody here can tell you what happens inside. …
17 August 2026 · 4 min read
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How AI Reshaped Digital Marketing, and Where Kochi's Webstreax Fits In
Search, advertising, content and customer service used to run on separate, mostly manual playbooks. SEO alone …
13 August 2026 · 4 min read
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Kochi Small Food Businesses Just Got a Much Lighter Licence Rule
From 1 April 2026 the FSSAI registration ceiling jumped from Rs 12 lakh to Rs 1.5 crore, and food licences sto…
12 August 2026 · 6 min read
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How Cochin Airport Ended Up Making More Power Than It Uses
It started with a 100 kWp panel array on a terminal roof in 2013. Cochin International Airport now reports 50 …
8 August 2026 · 5 min read
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What Kerala Startup Mission Actually Gives a Founder
Kochi founders describe KSUM either as free government money or as a paperwork maze. Neither is right. Here is…
7 August 2026 · 4 min read
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Vallarpadam Was Built to Beat Colombo. It Is a Gateway Port Now.
Kochi's container terminal handled 767,948 TEU last financial year, and its transhipment traffic nearly halved…
6 August 2026 · 5 min read
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What Cochin Shipyard Actually Builds, and Why the World Started Ordering
It built INS Vikrant, it builds the Water Metro boats you ride, and in February a French shipping giant placed…
5 August 2026 · 4 min read
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Life in Kakkanad: What Working in Kochi's Tech Belt Is Really Like
Infopark, SmartCity, KINFRA and the SEZ all sit in one Kochi suburb that was paddy land within living memory. …
5 August 2026 · 5 min read
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Kochi Hosts Indo-Arab Connect 2026, and Kerala Wants Three Lakh Gulf Visitors
Two hundred tour operators from ten Arab countries land in Kochi on August 31 for a summit built around ayurve…
3 August 2026 · 5 min read
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Kochi Water Metro Starts Selling Carbon Credits, an India First
The electric boats have always been quiet. As of a deal signed on 23 July, the emissions they avoid are now a …
2 August 2026 · 5 min read