Kochi: The two-day all India strike turned out to be an all Kerala strike, hitting daily activities of the common man even as small provision shops were forced to down shutters. The left parties are using the anti people activities to protest against the BJP government’s anti people policy. Interestingly, the electors of the government …
Kochi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was attacked by a person when Kumar was offering tributes to a freedom fighter Shilbhadra Yaji at Bakhtiyarpur on Sunday.The assailant marched through the battery of Chief Minister’s special security sleuths and pulled Kumar to bring him face to face to bang the when the security personnel pounced on …
Kochi: Double Olympic medalist P V Sindhu lifted the women’s title in the Swiss Open 300Badminton Tournament at St Jakobshalle, Switzerland, on Sunday.Sindhu defeated Busanan Ongbamrungphan of Thailand 21-16, 21-8 in 49 minutes.This is Sindhu’s 16th win against the 47th seed Busanan out of a total of 17 outings.Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said in a …
Kochi: A summer football camp for children will be held at Soccer School Ground, Achankavala, Thodupuzha, in Idukki from Apr 2.The camp is for boys and girls in the age group of 5 years to 17 years.Dronacharya K P Thomas will inaugurate the camp.Classes on Sports nutrition, sports Psychology will be held.There will be motivational …
Kochi: Senior Congress leader Thalekunnil Basheer, 79, passed away at his ancestral house in Vembayam in Thiruvananthapuram in the wee hours of today, media reports said. Basheer was suffering heart ailments and was keeping away from active politics for the last few years. His 79th birthday was celebrated recently by the family and party workers.Known …
Kochi: Police are most likely planning to question popular actress Kavya Madhavan in connection with the actor assault case on February 17, 2017 at Kochi.Notice summoning Kavya for the questioning is expected to be sent after grilling her husband and actor Dileep who is the eighth accused in the case, media reports said.From the beginning …
Kochi: Amidst Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan expressing confidence on getting the centre’s nod for the K-Rail project, the Railway Minister has raised concerns on the project. Addressing a press conference at New Delhi, Pinarayi said his parleys with the Prime Minister on getting the center’s nod for the controversial K-Rail project was encouraging. The …
Kochi: World Cups winner, M S Dhoni quit Chennai Super Kings as a captain after 14 years association since 2008. Fetching the title four times in 2010, 2011, 2018 and 2021, Dhoni made his way to facilitate the throning of his 33-year-old junior associate Ravindra Jadeja, media reports said. The 40-year-old Dhoni proved his inimitable …
Kochi: In an interesting situation Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan met Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking an urgent nod for the K-rail project which is being opposed by Modi’s BJP in Kerala. Ironically, when Pinarayi was meeting Modi, a few BJP’s youth wing activists intruded into the Chief Minister residence Cliff House to erect K-rail survey …
Kochi: Former off spinner Harbhajan Singh, IIT Physics professor Sandeep Pathak, and educationist Ashok Kumar Mittal have been spotted for Rajya Sabha as AAP candidates. The name of Krishna Pran Breast Cancer Care Charitable Trust founder Sanjeev Arora is also doing the rounds for Upper House seat. There are five seats vacant from Punjab for …
Kochi: A 64-year-old person was sentenced to 73 years in jail for raping his 7 year-old grandson at Murickassery in Idukki in 2019. A Fast Track Court in Idukki gave the verdict on the case registered under Murickkassery police station. The case was registered under POCSO.The case happened in 2019 when the grandfather subjected the …
Kochi: Japan will invest 42 billion dollars in the next five years in India, Japanese premier Fumio Kishida said. He said this after holding a wide range of discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi. Discussions included issues related to boosting bilateral economic and cultural ties. They jointly addressed …
Kochi: The new Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab will immediately provide jobs to 25,000 people in the state. The notification in this regard will be issued soon, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said, according to media reports. The government would appoint 15,000 people to the police and remaining aspirants in different boards and corporations, …
Kochi: In a gruesome incident, a 80-year-old widower Hameed set afire his son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren at Thodupuzha in Idukki, police said. He was having a bad relationship with son Mohammad Faisal. Following this he wanted back the property that Hameed had bestowed to his son. Hameed was living separately at a different place …
Kochi: In a blow to actor Dileep, the Kerala High Court refused to stay the probe into the conspiracy case pertaining to harm to police officials who probed the actor assault case of 2017. The court said it cannot intervene in the case at this stage of the probe and the case needs to be …
Kochi: The Kerala High Court has said that film units had the responsibility to set up an Internal Complaint Cell (ICC) for the protection of women in the workplace. A division bench of the court made the ruling while clearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) praying for constitution …
Kochi: The grand old centrist party Congress is facing the worst ever crisis since its formation due to poor leadership and mismanagement leading to exodus and internal revolt by veteran party leaders. Any child would say that the party’s decision to go solo in UP election was suicidal. A coalition in UP could have changed …
Kochi: In a blow to the LDF government, the Supreme Court has expressed surprise over Kerala paying life time pension to the personal staff of state ministers completing two years of service. Kerala is the only state that practices the system of appointing personal staff for two years and paying them pension, the Apex Court …
Kochi: India won the test series against Sri Lanka beating the islanders by 238 runs at M A Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru today.The five-day match ended in three days as the visitors could not endure the aggression of India bowlers. Winning the toss, India batted first and struggled to make only 259. But for Shreyas …
Kochi: Kerala government has allocated Rs 2000 crore for the herculean K-rail project but has ignored acquiring land for laying an approach road for Railway overbridge at the busy Mulanthuruthy railway crossing. The Railways have meticulously built an overbridge bridge worth over Rs 6 crore over the double track between Mulanthuruthy and Chottanikkara road aboot …
