platform with the ferry and bus systems to provide seamless travel options for residents.

The metro trial run began at 6 am from Aluva and will conclude at 9:30 pm today. Four rakes of trains will make a total of 142 trips through the day and will stop at every station to test signal and safety limits.

The metro project was expected to be thrown open to the public on November 1 last year, the day of formation of Kerala. But the deadline could not be met. The project, built on a PPP model between the state and the Centre, had DMRC as the implementation agency and E Sreedharan as the principal advisor to the DMRC. The coaches for the train were ‘made in India’ by Alstom, a French companyOperation Weeting, the police investigation into the phone
hacking, had sprung from "gratuitous" leaks in the official inquiry.

As The Guardian reported, the demand for
the newspaper's notes was formally made under the Police and Criminal Evidence
Act, but police also claimed that Hill had "incited" an Operation Weeting source
to break the Official Secrets Act, and that the reporter herself may have
broken the espionage law. The demand was met with wide condemnation
from UK media, politicians, and others. The Home Affairs Committee of the House
of Commons has scheduled a
private hearing today with Met officials to get an explanation.

Far from breaking state secret laws, TheGuardian's
reporting on the phone hacking scandal exemplifies what journalists should be doing--investigating
and reporting on matters of great public interest. Protection of sources is key
to this function and is recognized by