Kochi: Transport Minister Antony Raju moved Kerala High Court seeking to quash the charge sheet filed against him in connection with tampering of evidence in a drug smuggling case. Raju argued that the prosecution had not completed the procedures before filing the chargesheet. The move comes when the trial court’s going to hear the case …
Kochi: India eves won maiden gold in the women’s Fours Lawn Bowls game defeating South Africa 17-10 in the finals at the Commonwealth Games at Birmingham on Tuesday. The other gold of today was won by men’s table tennis team defeating Singapore 3-1. The country won its fifth gold medal of the Games. Weightlifter Vikas …
Kochi: al Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, was killed in a US drone attack at Kabul in Afghanistan. US President Joe Biden announced it in a televised address. The attack was part of CIA’s counter-terrorism operation on Sunday. The president said that Zawahiri “carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens”. Zawahiri became …
Kochi: Ignoring China’s warning, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached Taiwan on Tuesday. The Chinese President had warned the US to keep off the region. Xi Jinping had last week warned the US President Joe Biden not to meddle with Taiwan which China claims to be its province where no others have any right to …
Kochi: Five people were killed in rain related incidents in Kerala on Tuesday taking the total toll at 12. Two persons died in landslides in Peravur in Kannur. They were identified as Numa Thazmin and Rajesh. Body of one Riyaz who was missing in Manimala river since yesterday was found in Mundakayam today.Bodies of Aneesh …
Kochi: Central Water Commission (CWC) has predicted chances of three rivers triggering floods in Kerala. Manimala, Karamana and Neyyar pose extreme possibility of triggering floods, CWC Deputy Director Sini Joseph told a Malayalam online news portal. The next two days are crucial in view of the rising level of the rivers. The CWC has 44 …
Kochi: Succumbing to the opposition against appointment of controversial bureaucrat Sriram Venkitaraman as Alappuzha Collector, the government today shifted him to a different department in Kochi. He will now serve as MD of Supplyco. V R K Teja Mylavarapu will take charge as Alappuzha Collector. He will leave the post of director of Scheduled Caste …
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Kochi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the government is taking all precautions across the state based on the experiences the state had endured in the past few years in the state. The rains have claimed six lives and one person has been reported missing.Five houses have been damaged in floods and 55 houses …
Kochi: A 22-year-old person who died in a private hospital in Thrissur on Saturday was infected with Monkeypox virus, Lab reports said.Fifteen people have been identified in the primary contact list. These include his friends, relatives and health workers.A high-level inquiry has been ordered into it.First the swab was examined at Alappuzha Virology and Pune …
Kochi: The NIA court sentenced Thadiyanantavida Nazeer and Sabir Buhari to seven years imprisonment in connection with the 2005 Tamil Nadu Government bus burning case at Kalamassery in Ernakulam in Kerala.The court sentenced Thajuddin to six years imprisonment in the case.The court imposed a penalty of Rs 1.75 lakh on Nazeer while the penalty on …
Kochi: Chanu Shaikom Meerabai won the first gold for the country in the women’s 49 kg category weightlifting event in the Commonwealth Games 2022.The 28-year-old lass from Manipur aggregated a total of 201kg (88kg plus 113kg) to lift the top honours in the event even as she was not able to script her personal best.Padmashri …
Kochi: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s Mumbai house was raided by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case on Sunday. After questioning the Rajya Sabha MP for about 10 hours on July 1, the 60-year-old Shiv Sena leader was summoned by the probe agency on July 27, but he could not …
Kochi: The 21-year-old weightlifter Sanket Sargar won a silver medal in the men’s 55 kg category in the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.An injury on his right elbow was a big handicap for him in winning the gold.He lifted 248 kg and fell one kilogram short to the gold medalist Mohammad Aniq of Malaysia.Weightlifter Gururaja Poojary …
Kochi: Dental diseases are most common among people and government hospitals in Kerala are offering exemplary services to the masses at a pittance.Most of the government-owned medical Colleges in the state have dental colleges attached to them and one such is at Kottayam where the rich and the poor throng the institution seeking solution to …
Kochi: Defrauders of gullible depositors in cooperative societies can no longer get away just like that as the central government has set up a dedicated ministry headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discipline the Cooperative sector. The RBI has been armed with more powers by amending Banking Regulation Act after the Punjab Maharashtra …
Kochi: India went one up by defeating West Indies in the first of the five T-20 matches by 68 runs at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad and Tobago. Put into bat, India made 190 losing six wickets. Captain Rohit Sharma hit a sparkling 64 in 44 deliveries while Dinesh Karthik looked more dangerous …
Kochi: Expressing deep concern over the Left government’s refusal to prune the personal staff of its ministers, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan has said that now it is up to the people to decide on it. Governor ‘s response was in the wake of the government accommodating the personal staff of an ousted minister with …
Kochi: Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has so many takers that is causing worry to its traditional ally Congress.CPM-led LDF had been making a number of unsuccessful attempts to woo IUML to its side.Shockingly the ruling saffron party BJP at centre had made attempts to woo IUML into its camp.This was done by Shobha Surendran …
View Post Kochi: The Kerala High Court has issued a notice to the trial court in Nedumangad in Thiruvananthapuram seeking a report on 20 years delay in hearing the evidence tampering charge against Kerala Minister Antony Raju in a drug smuggling case. The Court issued the direction while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which …
Kochi: Security has been beefed up in distrubed areas while educational institutions have been shut due to Thursday night’s killing of a 22-year-old food delivery man Fasil at Surathkal in South Karnataka.hSection 144 CrPc has been imposed from 10 pm to 6 am till July 30 in Surathkal and nearby areas.School and colleges in Surathkal, …
