Beypore Water Fest concludes on a spectacular note
The Hindu
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Traveller Santhosh George Kulangara never expected that the Tourism Department would implement an idea he had casually mentioned to Tourism Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas.
Addressing the massive crowd at Beypore on Wednesday during the concluding ceremony of the four-day Beypore Water Fest, he said, “Beypore has astonished me. This festival has replaced Thrissur Pooram as the biggest extravaganza in Kerala with maximum public participation.”
Nearly four lakh people from Kozhikode and neighbouring districts turned up for the festival, which the Tourism Department claims to be one of the biggest water-themed festival in the country.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.