Locally known as the Kaloor International Stadium, the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium located in the heart of the Kochi city is the heart of Kerala's sportive dreams and has been the back bone of our achievements since 1996. The stadium has lots of facts to boast off and here are some of the most interesting ones, probably the ones you've never known.

- The stadium has a capacity of 75,000 spectators making it one of the largest stadiums in India.
- The stadium is widely touted to be one of the most noisiest cricket stadium in the world due to its distinctive architecture. - The most innovative aspect of the stadium is its unique lighting towers of 2 kW Floodlights which when switched on fully can provide lighting levels for HD telecast. The Structure of the tower is itself one of a kind in India.

Kochi, the rising metro of India, is a town that is located in the southern part of this magnificent
country, in the state of Kerala. Being a state that has a very deep rooted moral standards, a pub is something not so easy to find in this part of India. But as the city is growing into a metro there are people from almost all parts of the country flowing into here. And this has influenced the culture of Kerala to a great extend. Obviously there are a few pubs and dance bars opened in Kochi. Even though you cannot compare them to the pubs that you have seen in Bangalore or Goa - these dance bars do offer some special treats. Here are our handpicked 5 Pubs of Kochi - This little city has so much to tell ;)

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- Club 11 Hundred

The Club 11 Hundred is a dance bar located at the Ramada Resort, Kochi. The pub functions at the lobby level of the Ramada Resort. Located in the outskirts of the city, the pub offers perfect ambience and music to the party lovers out there in this little city. DJ Shekhar is the in house DJ and is a popular figure among the music lovers of the city.


Here are some reviews of the party freaks in Kochi - Extracted from: http://www.burrp.com/

"I simply adore this place. Located in the upscale Ramada Resort, this place is a sure treat to music and lovers of hard drinks alike. They have an amazing line up of Dj's that belt out all the latest tracks to keep you entertained. The juggling skills of the bartenders is very impressive. They serve divine cocktails. Ambience is dimly lit and spacious, just the way it should be. Finger food is too good."

"Its easily the best place to party in cochin........ Its a bit far from the city... but all in all a good place... PLEASE dnt compare it to clubs in bglr.... u'll surely be disappointed..... DJ Shekhar is the in house DJ..... Good music n the booze is expensive for cochin standards Eg: a pint a beer in 150...... SAT nyts is when the party happens...... sum weekends its really good... othrs nt so mch.... u shud check it out if u wanna shake a leg in twn :)"

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-  Jules Bar
The Jules Bar is located at the Le Meridien Hotel, Kochi. This one can be classified more as an exotic bar rather than a pub. There are music sessions on selected days. There is no in house DJ but there are a lot of reputed visiting DJs at this place.

What happens when you take a shopping freak who is a fashion addict to one of the Kochi's most famous shopping streets? Things are pretty amazing. Read to know more ;)
It is a lane running between old buildings but newly painted, a block away from the Arabian Sea! Okay, weird geographical description, check out the map! Tourists from all over the world are a common sight here, wearing their newly purchased Saree and Dhothi.
The atmosphere is lively with the vendors trying to sell their wares to the tourists (at sky high prices) in broken English, and the flute sellers and drum sellers playing their music, and so many colorful and shiny distractions. You can find chat-walas, panipuri-walas, bhaji vendors and many other street vendors occupying their places in this busy lane of Kochi.

As the clock strikes 12, a day comes to an end. But that doesn't mean everything is over. The clock still continues to tick. Stay awake. Perhaps after 12 the world comes to its best in the late night hours. It is unfortunate if you haven't felt the mesmerizing mysteries of the night. A late night drive is one of the best things you can do while you are bored, sad, happy, depressed or sleepless out of anything. Here are 10 Reasons that You Should Go For a Late Night Drive !

#1: For the peace and silence it offers ;) 

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For once, the city doesn't remind you of the chaos that your life is. It’s calm, tranquil and laidback. There’s no hustle bustle, no traffic, no honking – no race. You can just be the way you want to be. No one stops you. No one triggers your anger. There are no traffic lights. There are no jay walkers. Everything is calm and quiet. The way you dream it to be during the day.

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Being in India we come across discounts and sales of various E-commerce sites in our country. Often we get no benefit from these sales due to various reasons. Here is a small guide on how to deal with the Online Sales or Discounts in an effective manner so that you can make the best out of it.

1. Be prepared and clear about the things you'd like to buy !

Have something like a to-do list. Instead of browsing through the entire product range aimlessly, have certain things in your mind before you start browsing the shopping site. Think and plan about anything that you need or would need in the near future. This can help you out of the mess that is created due to large volume of products available. This will save time as well as the money you spend on ordering random products. But make sure you don't miss some great deals that are running too. You can rely on pages like Deals4You on Facebook. They usually post the best deals happening around in various shopping sites.

2. Create a wishlist on the shopping site !
Most people are unaware about the wishlist option available in most of the E-commerce sites. Adding items to your wishlist is like having your eyes glues onto a product. You can easily know the price of the product you are interested in. You don't have to go through the tedious job of searching and finding the item each time you log in. Your wishlist has it all. Saves time + Makes your job easier.

3. Try to get into the site before the sale begins !

Most of our e-commerce sites run out of bandwidth during sales and peak hours. To avoid this hit back, get into the site a bit earlier. Even though this sounds ridiculous without any scientific backing, it is experienced that the people who are already in a bandwidth limited site would be able to continue to use the site flawlessly while the new entries cant. Try it next time, might turn out to be worth it.

4. Compare before you buy !

Sales or discounts doesn't guarantee you the best price in the market. Before you order an item compare the product's price on other websites too. Often there are chances of finding the same product cheaper on a site without any offers running. It's sometimes a matter of luck.

5. Read about all the available deals running !

Sometimes you might be eligible for some extra discounts for using a particular bank's card or if you are a student. Or maybe something that you haven't imagines in your wildest dreams. So go through all the offers that are running on the particular site you are going to purchase from.

Learn with the renowned dancer Lakshmi Panicker. If dance is in your blood, we'll help you pursue your dream.

The heel & toe is a staple of hip-hop, r&b and reggae dance. This simple and fun step is the foundation for many creative group routines and individual freestyles. The heel & toe dance requires a constant rotation one foot's planted "toe" behind the other foot's planted heel. With a little focus and attention to detail, you can master the heel & toe and incorporate it into your dance repertoire.

There is a lot of buzz regarding the Apple's flagship product IPhone happening as always. You can find Apple fans advocating the advantages of owning an IPhone. You can also find tech enthusiasts advocating for Android or other smartphones. In fact IPhone does have a few benefits. Maybe it can help reduce the weight of your wallet. ;)

1. You Are Locked Inside An Alien Planet: 
Yes, it is definitely sort of something like this. You cannot transfer files, music, videos or any other stuff; to and from your Apple device. iTunes is the only gate to enter or exit into your device. This can sometimes be frustrating when your friends do not own an IPhone. Imagine an outing with your childhood friends, amazing pictures clicked by each of you, and now you wanna share those pics each other before they leave the place. You are screwed !

Note: There are a few third party applications helping you to transfer files between any smartphones from an IPhone but these apps does not seem to be fully functional.

2. You buy the brand and the logo, not a solid hardware:
How many of you are aware of the hardware specifications of an IPhone? Before you'd buy any other smartphone, you will have a number of specifications to look upon. The Memory, the processor, the screen size, the camera quality and so on. But a person who buys an IPhone questions nothing but he just wants it to be an Apple IPhone. There lies the secret behind the immense growth of this gadget manufacturer.

You get a 16GB storage, 8MP camera, a 4.7" mere LCD screen, 1GB of Ram and a very weak 1.4Ghz Cyclone (ARM v8 based) processor for about Rs. 79,999!

Have you ever gone through this? Most of them might haven't. A similar specification based device can be sought for around Rs. 20,000 or below if you go for other brands, and those other brands doesn't refer to the budget Chinese and Indian brands. So you are paying a large sum buying nothing, and this funds the brand, flourishes the brand and here lies the secret behind the companies mind blowing growth within a very few years of existence.

3. Lack of Applications and Utilities:
iOS definitely has a lot of applications and utilities in store, we agree. But it is nothing compared to that of an Android store. You get half of the applications available with the rivals. Most of the applications are available free of cost in other platforms where as iOS juices out your wallet even while you browse through their stores for something lovely or essential.

3. Smooth and User Friendly Interface: 

Sometimes you have to get creative when it comes to celebrating a birthday! That is especially true if you have no money. After all, birthday parties can be expensive occasions. A birthday party can make your wallet feel a whole lot lighter at the end of the day because you need a cake or other delicious celebratory food, there are presents to buy, there may be alcohol to purchase and decorations for the party can be costly.

- Presents That Don't Cost Any Money

Here are examples of presents that do not cost money:

• You surprise the special boy/girl with a scenic drive around the city or some tourist destinations.
• You plan a picnic with a big group and ask each person to bring a dish. Your own dish is composed of food items you already have in your kitchen.
• Tell all of the guests to bring cameras. Take silly pictures of each other during the party; you will be laughing! After the party, download the photos and create a collage and then gift it.

Remember that after a birthday party people often remember the experience more than a physical present. Quality time spent together really does mean more than a material item.

- Party Decorations: Free Versions are Online

Perhaps the birthday gal likes party decor or you want to spoil the special guy with a festive party. You need decorations to celebrate the occasion. Again, you worry, as you have no money. Create your own decorations to avoid financial costs.

Free ways to decorate for the party include:
Print out free online templates for napkin rings, gift cards, and party favor bags. These items are available in different patterns on a several websites.

Print out a birthday banner, customized for the gal or guy, to display at the party. Check out Printfree.com for some great banners to use.

- Create a party feel

- Sing Happy Birthday in a group

CHOCOLATE PAYASAM

Chocolates that really melt in your mouth and not in your hands. A payasam with a chocolatey twist.

Whenever you get a new SIM card, it takes time for you to by heart your own mobile number.
Sometimes,you might even forget your own mobile number due to several confusions and you always give a call to your friends or relatives mobile so that you can have a look at your number,its a long process,isn’t it? Well, now on, you can just use the codes in this tutorial to Check your own mobile number for major network providers such as the below given ones, we will actually use some codes that’ll show up your mobile number without wasting much time.

You just have to open up your phone’s Dialer, type these codes and finally you need to hit the call button or sometimes you just need to type it. You’ll see that a small window pop up giving you the required details (Some carriers ask you to confirm it, just hit “OK” to proceed) . And the best part is that it works even with zero balance as it is completely free, even better than calling others to check your mobile number because even that requires currency!

Gaming is a passion for some. Madness for many. There are a million gaming freaks around the world exploring and experimenting various game titles that are being released every year. In this huge segment of computing, there are various giants emerging as well as collapsing with many of their latest releases. From adventures to racing and sports there are hundreds of games taking birth each month. Selecting the best games out of these is indeed a tiring job. Here are the three all-time popular games. And you shouldn't miss playing these !

3. Half-Life 2 
2. The Orange Box
Games included in The Orange Box compilation: The original Half-Life 2 - The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people - people he cares about - are counting on him. Half-Life 2: Episode One - The player reprises his role of Dr. Freeman, who must immediately face the repercussions of his actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Freeman reconnects with Alyx Vance and her robot, Dog, as they continue their support of the resistance's battle against the Combine forces. Half-Life 2: Episode Two -- the second installment in Valve's episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17. Portal - a pioneering type of single player action game that rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment – much like how Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun reinvented the way gamers interact with objects in the game. Team Fortress 2 - an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games. The game's daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date. [Valve Software]
1. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 liter (33 oz) ice cream (any flavor).
• Crushed cereal, such as corn flakes, frosted flakes, cinnamon squares, or puffed rice (it is also possible to use finely crushed sweet hard cookies/crackers or plain breadcrumbs).
• Flour (a small bowl of it, approx 1/2 cup).
• Oil (use an unflavoured oil that has a high heat point).
• 2 eggs (beaten in a bowl large enough for dipping).
• Cinnamon and/or sugar (optional).

1. Prepare two baking sheets by lining with a silicon liner or parchment paper. Then place the sheets in the freezer for half an hour prior to making the ice cream balls.

2. Scoop symmetrical balls of ice cream. Try to make each scoop about as large as your fist. Make as many scoops as will fit on the baking sheets.
5. Coat the ice cream. Remove the balls from the freezer, then:

• Roll each ice cream ball first in the flour bowl. A little flour over each ball provides increased strength.
• Roll each ice cream ball in the beaten egg.
• Lastly, roll each ball around in the crushed cereal. (For a tastier treat, you can add cinnamon and sugar to the crushed cereal. Just make sure you still have enough cereal bits on the ice cream to coat the surface of the scoop.)
• Alternatively, you may dip the ice cream balls in cake batter to make a thin, donut-like coating. Then either fry the balls directly or sprinkle / roll them in crushed cookie or biscuit crumbs to give a crisp shell. This method can be done immediately before frying, or like the method above may be re-frozen as follows.

6. Place the ice cream balls back on the baking sheets, then back in the freezer.Freeze for at least two hours before frying. At this point, you can actually keep the ice cream balls frozen for up to two months if needed.
7. Fry the coated ice cream balls. Heat up the oil until it shimmers - approx 185C or 364F. Fry the ice cream balls in batches two at a time to avoid reducing the temperature of the oil. A low temperature won't fry them crisply. Fry until each ball turns a light/golden brown all over. Remove as soon as it's done.

8. Serve the ice cream balls. Serve immediately after frying, with chocolate or caramel sauce or other favorite sauce. If you'd like the dessert to be colder, place it back into the freezer for a few more minutes after it's fried, then pull out and serve a little colder. This is a personal preference and isn't essential.

Hosting contests or organizing a give away is one of the best strategies that you can use to drive traffic into your website/ blog. This is an age old idea that is used by almost all the webmasters around the web. But hosting a contest or a give away can be a tedious job to a few at least. Finding out a sponsor or a gift to be given is the only tough job behind the scene. The prizes need not be really expensive to drive attention, gifting an ear phone or a domain name can also be equally competent. Today we will give you a few ideas that can be used to host a contest without much your pocket money being drained. If you have a blog that isn't really new in the blogosphere, these tips can help you a lot to boost your online presence.

Finding out a sponsor.

1. Find Out a Third Party Sponsor
Finding out a sponsor for your give away should be the first step in organizing a contest. Sponsors can be of different types depending upon your site's popularity and traffic. If your blog belongs to newbie category, it is always preferable to approach some software firms or cloud storage sites. These firms do not need any capital to give away their products such as a software license or a premium cloud storage account, and therefore there are higher chances of these groups cooperating with you. An antivirus, internet security or any other popularly used software can be offered as a prize, and these software are indeed a benefit to the winners.
If you have a site that has comparatively higher amount of traffic and popularity, then try to find out materialistic prizes such as gadgets or accessories, as these gifts can obviously drive higher attention, but you need to prove yourself to the sponsor that you are worth the sponsorship.

2. Sponsor Yourself
If you are a very beginner and you website is really new, it is hard to find sponsors for your contests. That does not mean that you cannot host a contest. Sponsor it yourself. Keep aside some of your pocket money for this. It doesn't matter how small the prize is, it is just the give away that matters. Drive maximum traffic with the efforts you make. Bring up your site. Establish your presence. And later on, you will have sponsors waiting for you.

How to count on the Entries and Manage your contests. 
The next step is organizing the contest. Promoting your contest. Managing the entries. Choosing the winners. And there goes it. Managing the contest can be done easily using some contest managers that are available free with limited features and paid with premium features. Rafflecopter is one such service that can be used to manage your contests or give away-s. Rafflecopter can be clubbed with almost all the social networking sites, email clients and most of the web platforms. You can choose from the wide range of options to count on the entries and Rafflecopter can easily manage the entries based on their actions which can be counted or rejected. You can ask your readers to share a post, post a tweet, comment on your blog or anything else and Rafflecopter can easily track them, hence you do not have the head aches of organizing or verifying the entries. This site also offers a free service with limited features which can be used to host your initial contests.

Promoting your contests, sharing the word.
The best way to promote your contest is asking the contestants to share the word through social networking sites, and counting on entries based on their number of posts or re-tweets. This is really effective and might reach millions from mouth to mouth. Share about the contest through your Fan pages, emails and let your friends know while you talk. If you have a better budget and would like to reach a higher amount of audience, then start advertising too.

Everywhere in the web you can see posts about Xiaomi Mi3 Releasing in India. Flipkart being the sole dealer of the brand in India, the site crashed as soon as the phone's sales started. The phone was sold out in 40 Minutes. The phone is priced pocket friendly and has mind blowing specifications. Everything about this smart and cost efficient phone is convincing. But there are certain things to consider before you jump into buying one. Here are our 5 Reasons for this post.

1. Lack of Service Stores.
Xiaomi has only now made its first foray into the highly lucrative Indian market, and therefore they do not have a wide network of service stores. The after sales services associated with this brand is yet to be reviewed. Once you encounter an issue with the device, there is hardly anyone you can approach. Flipkart being the dealer, might offer services through courier companies, and this would be time consuming as well as a tedious job. Therefore before you get one in your hands, make sure you have a service station near you or at place that you can reach conveniently. Here is a list of service centers as of now. You can hardly find one near you.

Have you ever wondered about the pros and cons of buying a less popular smartphone brand? Why do the
leasing brands price their devices higher than the less popular ones that offer better specifications? It is not just the brand name that decides the price tag. There are various factors that influence the price of a smartphone. Know it right, before you open your wallet.

In the recent years we have a lot of emerging smartphone brands in our market. Some of them being Micromax, Karbonn, Xolo, Gionee, etc. Most of these brands offer up to the mark specifications as well as amazing designs, but are priced much lower than their competing popular counterparts. Most probably you can get half the specification at double the price while you go for a popular brand like Samsung, Nokia, Sony or HTC.

In both rich countries and poor ones, cheaper smartphone brands are making inroads. Demand for pricey phones, mainly in developed economies, is slowing, but that for less expensive devices is booming. People buying their first smartphones today, perhaps to replace a basic handset, care less about the brand and more about price than the richer, keener types of a few years ago. The brands that get affected due to this washout is the richer ones like Apple or Samsung. Apple may still seem to struggle for existence due to the unique OS they have and apparently impregnable brand. But the most vulnerable would be the brands dealing with Google's Android OS. Samsung and Sony would definitely have a hit back in the coming years.

The weekend is here again, and are you confused over your plan for the weekend? TalkandSpeak is also back with its handpicked weekend destination. Let us keep away the restaurants and shopping malls. There are no much awaited releases at the cinemas either. So we are going for a different experience this time. We suggest you to 'Go Kart' this weekend. Kochi has one of the newest 'Go Karting' track opened at the Info Park, Kaloor. Before you ask, we answer you the basic questions.

What is 'Karting'?
Kart racing or karting is a variant of open-wheel motor-sport with small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits. Karting is commonly perceived as the stepping stone to the higher ranks of motor-sports. Art Ingels is generally accepted to be the father of karting. A veteran hot rodder and a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, he built the first kart in Southern California in 1956. Karting has rapidly spread to other countries, and currently has a large following in Europe.
Bookings can be done by calling Speedway Kochi’s contact number – 9645962434.

The Bansal brothers - namely Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are the founders of the most popular online Flipkart. These brothers never thought that they would turn in to Billionaires while they started the earliest online store of India. During a time when the Indians were unaware of online shopping, these champs brought about a revolution into our market. Soon the Indians started buying anything and everything online. Starting from socks to high end computers, everything is shopped online today. Raising a challenge to the retailers of our country, e-commerce sites has emerged to a very large extend. We now have more than 50 online shopping stores functioning around us.


Flipkart emerged as the largest and the most popular online store and continues to stay the best even as global players like Ebay and Amazon has entered our market. With an initial investment of about   400,000, the Bansal brothers have now grown to be millionaires. Now Flipkart has a revenue of 11.8 Billion which is the largest among the online stores in India. Flipkart was founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, both alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. They had been working for Amazon.com previously. The business was formally incorporated as a company in October 2008 as Flipkart Online Services Pvt. Ltd. During the initial period, they concentrated only on books and later expanded to almost anything that you'd look into buying. Flipkart has also launched their flagship brand Digiflip which deals with pouches and bags.

This is a story that every aspiring entrepreneur of our nation should read. It is a story of hard-work and dedication along with innovative ideas. The story of a company started with an initial investment of Rs 4 lakhs is simply amazing and inspiring too for many aspiring entrepreneurs. The only milestone they had in front of them was to make their customers happy. The worked to provide timely delivery and up to the mark after sales delivery. While they watered the tree, the fruits started growing up. Co-Founder of Flipkart, Sachin Bansal got Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012-2013 from Economic Times, leading Indian Economic Daily. Flipkart.com was awarded Young Turk of the Year at CNBC TV 18′s ‘India Business Leader Awards 2012′ (IBLA). Flipkart.com, secured second position in the List of Cheapest Mobile Store 2013, compiled by Indian e-commerce observer Zoutons.com. And above all these, it is the name Flipkart that every Indian knows, their achievement.

It is not how much you invest or how big you start that determines your future, but it is the hard-work and innovative ideas that trigger success. The Bansal brothers are one of the best examples that you can rise from ashes. They had nothing while they started. But now they are the best online store in India, while the global giants like Ebay and Amazon are mere miniatures.

Definitely these are Indians who have made us proud, and here is a bonus - Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are related in no way.

Here is how their relationship emerged - ''My business partner, Binny, is also from Chandigarh. We are not related in any way, it just happens to be a coincidence that we are now working on Flipkart together. We both grew up in Chandigarh and went to the same schools yet did not know each other well. I went to the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, where I studied computer science, and that is where I really got to know Binny because he was studying computer science as well. We graduated from IIT in 2005, and we took different jobs in Bangalore. I joined a company called Techspan. Our paths converged again in 2006 when we both joined Amazon.com India.''

This is one among the most celebrated Iftar snacks that belong to the Malabar Region of the Kerala State of India which is located in the southern part of the country. This is a spicy yet delicious snack which is fried twice; deep fried at the first and then dipped in egg and shallow fried again. Being heavy in cholesterol and rich in calories, this can be considered to be a wonderful Iftar recipe.

Ingredients:
- White Flour/ Maida
- Salt to taste
- Water
- Meat Filling/ Masala
- Egg

Have you ever come across a wonderful site and wondered how it was designed or the platform that was used to design that website? Most of the web enthusiasts do wonder about this. Once we reach a beautifully designed website, the first thought that runs into our mind would be the secrets behind the designing of that site. How it was designed, what are the softwares used or even the platform that powered the site. Now it is easy to find all these things within seconds.

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1. India and Bangladesh share a 3rd enclave border which means that a part of India is in Bangladesh which is in India which is in Bangladesh. Woah!
4. In 2004, 200 women, armed with vegetable knives & chilli powder, stormed into a courtroom and hacked to death a serial rapist whose trial was underway. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.
6.When A.P.J Abdul Kalam was the President of India, he asked a question on Yahoo Answers on ways to eliminate terrorism. The best part is that Dr. Kiran Bedi, Leander Paes, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar replied to it. Here’s the direct link.