Kochi: Red alert has been sounded in Idukki even as the authorities are planning to release water from Idukki, Idamalayar and Pamba dams on Tuesday morning. The water level in Idukki dam is 2,397.86 feet against its Full Reservoir Level (FRL) 2,403 today. Water will be discharged through three shutters of Cheruthony dam which is the only …
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Kochi: After presenting the youngest Mayor for Thiruvananthapuram, the CPM has made another history by making a teenager CPM branch secretary in Kollam. The 20-year-old Arya Rajendran was made capital city mayor last year breaking all past practices. Similarly, S Shubhalakshmi, 19, has been made the new leader of the Vilakkuvettom branch. The branch comes …
Kochi: Water was released for the fifth time in the history of Idukki Dam today making October a special month as far as the dam is concerned. Four times water was released in the month of October and only once in August in 2018.Water was first released on October 29, 1981 after the dam was …
Kochi: Four persons have been reportedly died in Idukki and Kottayam due to the heavy rains on Saturday, reports said. Three persons were reported to have died in Plappally in Koottickal village due to landslides in Kottayam, reports said. Ten persons have been reported missing in the Koottickal village area. Several areas have been marooned in …
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Kochi: A organization named Nihang Sikh has owned up the responsibility of brutally killing a man on the Haryana-Delhi Singhu border where farmers were protesting against centre’s farm laws. Saravjeet Singh surrendered before the police in Haryana on Friday evening claiming that he had killed Lakhbir Singh, 30, and severed his one hand, media reports …
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Kochi: Panic spread in the state as media flashed news about a blue alert being sounded in Idukki following water level in Idukki Dam touching 2,390.86 ft mark against its full reservoir level of 2,403 ft today. The KSEB has said that there was no need to panic as a blue alert is sounded as …
Kochi: A panchayat president and his associates were booked under non-bailable offence for allegedly assaulting a doctor in a government hospital in Kollam on Thursday night. Doctors in Shasthamkotta Taluk Hospital are boycotting outpatient duties protesting against the assault, media reports said. It all started when the Shooranad North panchayat president and others came to …
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Kochi: Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, 23, is developing signs of homesickness as he is refusing to take food supplied in the jail after being arrested in a drug-related case. Aryan is said to be under very serious psychological pressure following his arrest from a luxury cruise for allegedly attending a rave party, media …
Kochi: India will be forced to make a surgical strike if Pakistan resorts to adventurism in Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said on Thursday. ‘India will not tolerate violence against it. If Pakistan continues to violate the border and continue facilitating cross-border terrorism, India will not hesitate to make more strikes on Pakistan,’ …
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Kochi: In a blow to the Left government, a city court in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday dismissed the discharge petitions filed by Kerala Education Minister V Sivankutty and five other LDF leaders in connection with violence in the state Assembly in 2015. The Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate court observed that the leaders should face trial and …
Kochi: Ayodhya of 1975 had Kishore Kumar singing the one and only song of his lifetime in Malayalam. ‘ABCD chettan kedi, aniyan pedi’ goes the song sung by Prem Nazir on the screenplay backed by Kishore Kumar who passed away this day in 1987 when only 58. The song was a hit for its attractive tune …
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The accused will have to spend at least 30 years behind the bars Kochi: City court in Kollam today sentenced Sooraj S Kumar, 28, for double life imprisonment and another 17 years under different sections for killing his wife Uthara, 25, using a snake in May last year. Slapping a fine of Rs 5 lakh, …
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Kochi: In a major verdict, a court today acquitted 12 IUML workers in a case pertaining to the alleged attempt to murder was made on CPM leaders at Ariyil near Kannur. Kannur Additional Sessions Court delivered the verdict on the case. The attack on the vehicle occupied by CPM leaders including P Jayarajan and T V …
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Kochi: A pall of gloom descended over Odanavattom in Kottarakkara as the news broke yesterday about the martyrdom of Sepoy Vaishakh H, 24. The young braveheart laid down his life for the nation fighting terrorists at the Poonch sector in Kashmir during combing operations. His mortal remains is expected to be flown in tomorrow. Vaisakh …
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Kochi: Anti Corona drug, Covaxin, has been recommended for use among children above two years of age during emergency situations, Subject Expert Committee on Covid-19 has said. The vaccine can be given during emergency situations for children from two years and 18 years, media reports said. The trial data of phase two and phase three …
Kochi: Tributes are pouring in for noted Malayalam actor, screenwriter and director Nedumudi Venu, (Venugopal) 73, who passed away due to liver-related ailments at Thiruvananthapuram yesterday. Mortel remains of the veteran actor was kept at Mahatma Ayyankali Hall (VJT Hall) in Thiruvananthapuram for the public to pay last respects. Expressing his condolence, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan …
Kochi: The Angry young man of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, turned 79 today even as countless of followers wished him a healthy, prosperous and happy life. Born to poet Harivanshrai Bachchan and social activist Teja Bachchan on this day in October 1942 at Allahabad in UttarPradesh, Bachchan came up the hard way facing ups and downs. …
Kochi: The arrest of Union minister’s son Ashish Mishra over murder allegations has silenced all the critics of BJP governments at the centre and UP. Though the disappearance of union minister’s son after the incident on October 3 led to suspicion of the integrity of the UP government, his ultimate arrest has brought to an …
It was the ICC that provided 50 per cent of PCB’s financial requirements, he said. “It is BCCI which provides 90 per cent of funds to ICC,” Ramiz says adding that there are documents to prove it. Kochi: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was surviving at the mercy of India, PCB chief Ramiz Raja has said. …
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Air India is the second-largest loss-making public sector enterprise in the country. Last financial year the state career had made a loss of Rs 8,474 crore. Kochi: Air India is back with the Tata group who once owned it before the country got independence after which the government took control of it in 1953. The …
