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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 · 5 min read
Haila Kochi
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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
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IIM Kozhikode Opens a Kochi Campus, Right Beside the Metro
The new Kalamassery campus sits next to the Cochin University metro station, which is the whole idea. Here is …
2 August 2026 · 5 min read
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Cochin Airport Just Had Its Biggest Year Yet: 1.14 Crore Flyers and a CIAL 2.0 Glow-Up
CIAL moved over 1.14 crore passengers in 2025-26, crossing the 10 million mark for a fourth straight year. Her…
25 July 2026 · 4 min read
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Fort Kochi Joins Kerala K-Homes Push as Tourism Hits a Record
Kerala just posted its biggest tourism year on record, with Ernakulam topping foreign arrivals, and Fort Kochi…
24 July 2026 · 4 min read
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Air Kerala: The Kochi Airline That Still Has Not Taken Off
Air Kerala has a Kochi head office, a government no-objection certificate and the IATA code KD. What it does n…
23 July 2026 · 5 min read
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Inside Infopark's Third Phase: Kochi Bets Big on an AI City
Infopark is planning a third phase built around AI companies on about 300 acres in Kizhakkambalam, with roughl…
17 July 2026 · 4 min read
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Why the World's Biggest Economies Just Met in Kochi
For four days this month, officials and ministers from the BRICS bloc gathered in Kochi to shape a women-led d…
12 July 2026 · 4 min read
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Kochi Startup Watch: Who's Raising, Building, and Hiring
Kerala Startup Mission and InfoPark have turned Kochi into a real founder city. Here is a grounded read on the…
11 July 2026 · 4 min read
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Kochi's Property Market, Explained: Kakkanad, the Metro Belt and the Waterfront
Kakkanad is booming on the back of InfoPark, Edappally sits on the metro, and the waterfront still commands a …
11 July 2026 · 4 min read
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Why Kochi Is Kerala's Commercial and Economic Capital
From the ancient spice trade to Cochin Shipyard, InfoPark and the Vallarpadam transshipment terminal, here is …
6 July 2026 · 5 min read
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Kakkanad Is Fast Becoming Kerala's Most Exciting Business District
InfoPark, SmartCity Kochi and the state administrative complex turned paddy land into the address every IT wor…
21 May 2026 · 3 min read
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Inside Kochi's Growing Startup Scene: Who's Building and Why It Matters
Anchored by the Kerala Startup Mission and a real hardware streak, Kochi has become one of the more active sta…
20 May 2026 · 3 min read
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The Kochi Property Hotspots Every Buyer Is Watching in 2026
Kakkanad, Edappally, the metro corridor running north to Aluva, the waterfront and Tripunithura. Kochi prices …
19 May 2026 · 3 min read
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Smart City Kochi: What the Mission Delivered, and What It Did Not
Surveillance networks, intelligent traffic management and upgraded junctions arrived. Lake rejuvenation and jo…
18 May 2026 · 3 min read
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How Kochi Startups Are Solving Real Kerala Problems
From sewer-cleaning robots to deep-tech hardware, a new generation of Kochi startups is building companies at …
17 May 2026 · 3 min read
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Marine Drive: How Kochi's Reclaimed Waterfront Became Its Most Valuable Commercial Strip
Malls, hotels, Grade-A offices and premium towers have grown up along the reclaimed shoreline facing the backw…
16 May 2026 · 3 min read