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, …
Kochi: A pastor of a charitable trust in Perumbavoor was arrested for allegedly trafficking minor girls from Rajasthan to Kerala. Independent Pentecostal Church pastor Jacob Varghese was arrested. He was produced before court and remanded. Twelve minor were trafficked illegally. The intermediaries were arrested in Kozhikode yesterday, media reports said. Their questioning led to the …
Kochi: The NIA court has found Thadiyantavide Nazeer, Sabir, Thajuddin guilty of Tamil Nadu Government bus burning case at Kalamassery. The court will deliver the sentence on Monday in the case related to the incident that occurred on September 9, 2005 demanding release of PDP leader Abdul Nazar Madani from Coimbatore jail where he was …
Kochi: India thrashed West Indies by 119 runs to sweep the ODI series 3 nil at Queens Park in the Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.In a rain-truncated match, the overs were reduced under DLS method.The 22-year-old Shubman Gill was the star player making 98 runs, missing the century by just two runs.Winning the …
Kochi: CSI South Kerala Bishop Dharmaraj Rasalam was on Wednesday questioned by the ED at Kochi in connection with a money laundering case connected with a church owned medical College near Thiruvananthapuram. Rasalam was questioned for nine hours in the Enforcement Directorate office in Kochi.The questioning remained inconclusive and it will continue tomorrow.Rasalam was detained by …
Kochi: Questioning of Congress president Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the National Herald money laundering case at New Delhi ended today. Sonia Gandhi was questioned for eleven hours in the last three days. She was allowed to meet Priyanka Gandhi in the middle of questioning. Sonia Gandhi fully cooperated with the …
Kochi: People of Kerala would be gifted with a free Onam kit containing 14 food articles, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said today. The government would spend Rs 425 crore towards this, he told reporters at Thiruvananthapuram. Pinarayi Vijayan said that the hike affected due to increase in GST would not be implemented in Kerala. The …
Kochi: Differences in holding Uniform Holy Mass and Church land sale controversy has led to the resignation of Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese apostolic vicar Antony Kariyil. He had to step down following direction from the Vatican demanding his resignation. Vatican delegate Nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli held parleys with the Archbishop on Tuesday on the differences in Syro …
Kochi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, MP, was detained for protesting on many issues on Tuesday when his mother and party president Sonia Gandhi was being questioned by the ED in connection with the National Herald case. Rahul was arrested at Vijay Chowk near Rajpath near high security Parliament and key government offices. After about …
Kochi: The ED is carrying out raids in CSI South Kerala diocese which has the office of Bishop A Dharmaraj Rasalam in Thiruvananthapuram in connection with irregularities and corruption in the admission in Dr Somervel memorial medical College on Monday. Raids were also being conducted in the residences of secretary T T Praveen and former director …
Kochi: Droupadi Murmu took oath as the 15th President of the country at the Central Hall of the Parliament today. Chief Justice of India N V Ramana administered the oath of office to 64-year-old Murmu who became the youngest person to occupy the highest constitutional post. She is the first tribal and the second woman …
Kochi: It was a great show by Indians under the leadership of Shikhar Dhawan at Queen’s Park Oval where India once again beat West Indies to win the three ODI series two nil.West Indies won the toss and elected to bat to make a mighty 311 for 6 in 50 overs. India made the required …
Kochi: President Ram Nath Kovind demitted office on Sunday after completing his full term as the president of the country. Kovind hailed the ‘power of vibrant democratic system’ of the country and said the specialty of Indian culture is its strong bonding. Praising the vibrancy of democracy, Kovind said he grew up in a very …
