Kochi: Mahua Moitra of Trinamool Congress was expelled from the Lok Sabha on the cash-for-question allegations on Friday, media reports said. Mahua was not allowed to speak in the Lok Sabha during the debate despite the Trinamool’s request to make her the speaker on behalf of the party. The voting favoured expulsion of Mahua Moitra …
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Friday issued notices to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, daughter T Veena and others in connection with alleged illegal financial transactions with Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL), media reports said.Others to get notices are former ministerand Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala, Muslim league leaders P K Kunhalikutty, V K …
Kochi: Operation of train services has been badly hit due to change of timing, Southern Railway Passengers Association president Sajeev Parishavila has said.Inaugurating a protest meeting in Kollam, he said rescheduling of connection trains to Nagercoil via Alappuzha for trains coming from Kottayam to Kollam would be of immense help to passengers traveling beyond Kollam.The …
Kochi: jeopardising the dream of forming a third front in Kerala, the Twenty20 has bid good bye to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), media reports said.Entrepreneur and chief of Twenty20, Sabu M Jacob, said the People’s Welfare Alliance is being disbanded.The matter has been brought to the notice of AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal, Jacob said.Vinod …
Kochi: The Kerala High Court has ordered investigation into allegations of unauthorised access to the memory card containing assault clippings of the survivor in the Actor abuse case of 2017, media reports said. The court ordered the investigation while hearing a prayer of the survivor who expressed fear that unauthorised access of the memory card …
Kochi: A medical doctor E A Ruwais, 28, was detained in connection with the suicide of a fellow doctor Shahna whom he was planning to marry, media reports said. He had gone into hiding after the case and was nabbed from a relative’s house Karunagappally in Kollam.Police have handed over his phone to the cyber …
Kochi: Another cross border marriage is going to happen early next year between Javeria Khanum of Karachi Sameer Khan in Kolkata, media reports said.After securing a 45-day visa, the 21-year-old Javeria arrived India through the Wagah border where she was welcomed by her fiancé and his father Ahmed Kamal Khan Yousafzai amidst beating of ‘dhol’, …
Kochi: Five tourists, including four from Kerala, were killed and three injured in a road accident at Zojila Pass on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Ganderbal district on Tuesday, media reports said.The four deceased tourists are Anil, 34, Sudheesh, 32, Rahul, 28 and Vignesh, 23 from Palakkad, the reports said.They were …
Kochi: The Congress-led I.N.D.I.A bloc meeting scheduled for Wednesday in New Delhi has been postponed due to the absence of leaders of major political parties, media reports said.The meeting has been rescheduled to the third week of December even as a meeting of the coordination committee will be held on Wednesday.Trinamool Congress chief and West …
Kochi: The All India Kisan Sabha of CPI has demanded revoking of the Forest Department’s notification to convert 364.39 hectares of land in Chinnakanal Village to Reserve Forest in Idukki district in Kerala. Its vice president Mathew Varghese welcomed the Kerala government’s decision to suspend the implementation of the order. Mathew said the government should …
Kochi: Charge Sheet was filed in the controversial Muttil tree cutting case in the First Class Judicial Magistrate’s court, Sultan Bathery on Monday.The 84,600-page charge sheet was filed after perusing 400 articles of evidence, including DNA test reports of the trees to study their age.Twelve persons including Muttil South village officer K K Aji and …
Kochi: Michaung Cyclone has inundated Chennai and many areas in Northern Tamil Nadu while the government has ordered people to stay indoors, media reports said.Social media is flooded with people sharing scores of pictures of floods. Bus, rail and air services have come to a standstill, the reports said.Power outages are reported from most of …
Kochi: Former Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory) Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s National Conference has said that his party will fight polls in the Union Territory independently, media reports said.Congratulating the BJP-led alliance over winning polls in three out of the four states, Abdullah said that the Congress had failed terribly, though it did well in …
Kochi: The grand old party Congress’ decision to float the I.N.D.I.A coalition to crush BJP has failed to deliver the goods in the Hindi heartland in the assembly elections in which the BJP is leading 3-1.All credits to the Congress-led front for doing exceedingly well in Telangana where it will form the new government thrashing …
Kochi: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has intensified its probe into money received in bank accounts operated by the CPM in the Karuvannur Cooperative Bank scam in Thrissur in Kerala, media reports quoting ED said. The amount that was received by CPM accounts in Karuvannur Cooperative Bank were not substantiated by the CPM district secretary …
Kochi: A medical doctor born in the United States and residing there for several decades lost citizenship of the country.The 62-year-old Siavash Sobhani from Virginia lost his citizenship on the grounds that his late father was an Iranian diplomat at the time of his birth, NDTV said quotating the Washington Post. Dr Sobhani was shocked …
Kochi: Three members of a family were detained in connection with the abduction of the 6-year-old Abigel Sara Reji who was later found abandoned in Kollam city, media reports said. The arrested, which included two male and a female, belonged to Chathannoor in Kollam.They were arrested in Tenkasi in Tamil Nadu by a special squad …
Kochi: Senior government pleader of the Kerala High Court P G Manu resigned after a sexual abuse case was registered against him, media reports said.The resignation was submitted to the Advocate General after he was booked on the basis of a complaint of a 25-year-old woman who accused him of sexually abusing her when she …
Kochi: In a setback to the ruling Left government, the reappointment of Gopinath Ravindran as Vice-Chancellor of Kannur University was quashed by the Supreme Court on Thursday. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, in a judgment set aside the Kerala High Court verdict upholding the re-appointment of Ravindran. The court …
Kochi: A mid air fight between a husband and wife forced the pilots to land the plane in New Delhi on Wednesday, media reports said.The Bangkok-bound Lufthansa airlines flight tried to land in Pakistan but was denied permission.Following this the aircraft from Munich was allowed to land at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in …
