Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Heeraben turned 100 on Saturday.Modi spent time with her and took her blessings at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. He also shared food with her. In a blog post, Modi greeted his mother on the occasion and recounted her sacrifices and wrote about the various aspects of her life. “Maa… this isn’t a mere …
Kochi: Destiny catapults one to the zenith of prosperity and also pulls down a wealthy to the girth of penury.Such is the case with Aiswarya who once acted opposite Mohanlal and other popular stars in early nineties.Daughter of yesteryear leading actor Laxmi, Aiswarya acted with Mohanlal in super hit films like Butterflies, Narasimham and Praja.Aiswarya also …
Kochi: The victorious Kerala team that lifted the Khelo India national basketball championship was given a warm welcome at Kottayam railway station. Mannanam-based St Ephrems Sports Academy director Fr Antony Kanjirathinkal led those who were present to receive the team at Kottayam railway station. Prem Kumar (coach), Aji Thomas (coach), Jobin Varghese (former sportsperson) Santosh …
Kochi: Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia has said that the centre would look into the protest against the Kerala Chief Minister and violence of LDF convener E P Jayarajan.Replying to a tweet of Congress MP Hibi Eden asking as to why an FIR was not registered against Jayarajan, Scindia said that we are …
Kerala’s premier hospital to join hands with ‘Kidney Priest’ Fr Davis Chirmel as a part of ‘Aster Care Together’ scheme. Thrissur: As part of creating awareness about cancer diseases and providing quality treatment at minimal cost, Aster Medcity will be joining hands with charity worker Fr Davis Chiramel. Fr Davis Chirmel, who is known as …
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Kochi: Gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh has accused the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of making an unsuccessful attempt to influence the Sharjah ruler to start an IT company for her daughter there. The attempt failed as some quarters in Sharjah opposed the project, she said in the affidavit given before the Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court. …
Kochi: Travel anywhere in the city for just Rs 5 in Kochi Metro on June 17, the day when it started its maiden journey of 13.4 kms from Aluva to Palarivattom in 2017.The aim is to promote Kochi Metro by attracting maximum travellers, mainly those who are yet to travel in the metro.One can travel …
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Kochi: Diplomatic gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh today alleged that she had held parleys with Kerala Chief Minister and family members on a number of occasions.The Chief Minister’s wife, daughter and son were among those present while she held the discussions and took decisions, she told reporters.Swapna said she was ready to remind the Chief …
Kochi: Three former Supreme Court Judges are among 12 prominent personalities who have prayed for suo motu intervention by the Supreme Court in the issue related to bulldozing of houses in Uttar Pradesh.Describing the UP government’s act as “making a mockery of the Constitution”, theyappealed to the Apex Court to act against the “violence and …
Kochi: Upper Primary aided school teacher Farzeen Majid was suspended for protesting against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inside a plane yesterday.Farzeen and Navin Kumar shouted slogans against Pinarayi seeking his resignation as the plane was landing in Thiruvananthapuram1airport. Education Minister V S Sivankutty has sought a report about Farzeen from the public education director.Farzeen, Mattanoor block …
Kochi: A couple of Youth Congress leaders accused LDF convener E P Jayarajan of assaulting them for protesting against the Chief Minister inside a flight which was landing at Thiruvananthapuram airport.Fardin Majid also alleged that the Chief Minister’s personal staff bashed him.Justifying his action, Jayarajan alleged that Fardin and Navin Kumar were inebriated to the …
Kochi: There seems to be no respite for Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan from statewide protests seeking his resignation after a gold smuggling case accused alleged the complicity of Pinarayi and his near ones in the case.Unmindful of all the protests, Pinarayi is continuing with his scheduled programmes causing immense inconvenience to the common man.Long …
Kochi: Gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh today collapsed due to fits after she alleged that she was being targeted for speaking out against Kerala chief minister and others.Swapna said she stood by her allegations that Shaj Kiran was a representative sent by Pinarayi Vijayan to negotiate a deal with her.She said that whatever Shaj …
Kochi: Unprecedented security arrangements for Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan caused immense inconvenience to the people as traffic was held up for hours in Kottayam.Pinarayi’s visit to the little town with poor infrastructure added to the woes of the people due to long hours of traffic blocks.All the roads leading to the town came to a …
Kochi: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today said that people cannot say anything in the public as per their whims and fancies.Inaugurating the KGOA state meet at Kottayam, he said the state had recently witnessed people blabbering things without any restrictions.He said such things would not discourage the government from taking stern action against trouble markers.Recently …
Kochi: Politicking over environmental protection has once again raised its head with the Left Front calling a hartal in Idukki today seeking dilution of the Supreme Court’s strict order on Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ).The UDF has followed suit by announcing a hartal on June 16, dumping the position of the departed Congress leader P T …
Kochi: Film personalities Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan entered wedlock on June 9 in Chennai.Actor-producer Nayanthara and director, film producer, actor and lyricist Shivan officially announced the date officially before the media on June 7.The duo met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin and his actor son Udayagiri to extend their invitation to them for …
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Kochi: The Kerala High Court has directed the management to disburse salary to employees including drivers and conductors without discrimination.Without paying salaries to those including conductors and drivers, salaries should not be paid to those in the supervisory grade, the court said in an interim order.The court directed the management to pay the salary in …
Kochi: NHAI has made India proud by entering the Guinness Book of World Records by laying a 75-kms road in a record time of 105 hours and 33 minutes.The National Highways Authorities of India (NHAI) had begun the work at 07.27 am on Jube 03 and completed it at 5 pmon June 7.The sector is …
Kochi: Tourism sector has got a major sop from the government which has done away with the requirement of NoC for starting a home stay in Kerala.The NoC from the local bodies was essential for getting classification of home stays by the tourism department.It was the long pending demand of the industry to do away …
