Kochi: BJP announced V V Rajesh as the Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram even as it took a marathon deliberation to find a candidate, media reports said. Ashanath who was elected from Karumam ward will be the deputy mayor. Elections to the mayor and deputy mayor posts will be held in all corporations across the state on …
Kochi: Traffic was disrupted near Varkala on Tuesday as a train hit an autorickshaw that fell into the railway line from Akathumuri station platform, Asianet News reported.The autorickshaw entered the Akathumuri station platform while railway authorities remained clueless on December 23.Vande Bharat train hit the autorickshaw with no one inside it as the inebriated driver …
Kochi: Former Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) members K P Shankardas of CPI and N Vijayakumar of CPM have moved court seeking anticipatory bail in Sabarimala gold robbery cases, media reports said.The two moved to Kollam Vigilance Court seeking anticipatory bail amidst the High Court of Kerala making observations about SIT sparing the two in the …
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Kochi: Kerala became the first state in the country to conduct a heart transplant poor 22-year-old woman from Nepal in a district level government hospital on Monday, Manorama news reported.The woman with cardiac sarcoidosis had come to Kerala after coming to know about health facilities available for people with poor financial condition.The patient’s mother and …
Kochi: The High Court of Kerala has suspended land acquisition for the greenfield airport near Sabarimala hill shrine on dispute over move to buy land more than required, media reports said.Hearing a petition against the Government move, the court on December 19 ruled that the state had failed to determine the actual required land for …
Kochi: Legendary Malayalam film personality Sreenivasan, 69, writer and filmmaker, passed away at Kochi on Saturday.He is survived by wife Vimala and two sons Vineeth Sreenivasan, a singer, actor, director and producer, and Dhyan Sreenivasan, an actor, director and producer.Born on April 6, 1956, in Patyam near Thalassery in Kannur, Sreenivasan started on a low …
Kochi: A Station House Officer K G Prathap Chandran, slapping N J Shaimol 43 was seen in CCTV visuals assaulting a pregnant woman inside the Ernakulam North Police Station onJune 20, 2024, Manorama reported.The video footage of the police station was received after a direction was issued by Kerala High Court which was approached by …
Kochi: A top jail cop has been booked by the Kerala Vigilance lfor taking bribes on many occasions, Kerala Kaumudi reported.The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau registered a case against the Prisons DIG Vinod Kumar for taking bribes from jail personnel, jail inmates, relatives of inmates for doing favour to them.Vinod is a black listed cop …
Kochi: A private bus driver, Dippin, of Kannur was arrested today for allegedly sexually abusing a plus-one student, Manorama reported.The accused developed friendship with the girl when she was in tenth standard.Later the accused abused her multiple times in a house in Kakkad.The incident came to light after the girl’s parents found a new mobile …
Kochi: A Civil Police Officer (CPO) was suspended for abusing a female cop on November 6, in Kollam, in Kerala, media reports said.A preliminary inquiry found the demeanor of accused Navas not conducive to the police department.The suspension order was issued by the City Police Commissioner against Civil Police Officer Navas, who was working on …
Kochi: Former Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) Administrative Officer (AO) Sreekumar was arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with the robbery of gold artefacts from the hill shrine of Sabarimala, media reports said.Sreekumar was the AO in 2019 when the robbery of golden sentries were removed and taken out of the temple illegally.The …
Kochi: Total number of CPM workers arrested for perpetrating violence after the local bodies poll in Panoor in Kerala has gone upto 10, media reports said.Five accused were arrested on Monday while five were takeninto custody from Mysore in Karnataka on Wednesday.Police have booked 50 cpm workers for creating terror in Panoor and nearby areas …
Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thiruvananthapuram Corporation win was tantamount to BJP winning at Ahmedabad in 1987 after which the saffron party came to power in Gujarat.Greeting BJP state chief RajeevChandrasekhar on the achievement, Modi said will visit Kerala capital soon.Modi said the rest of the country is celebrating the victory.Meanwhile, Congress is taking …
Kochi: BJP’s dream of Congress mukt Bharat crashed as the party won four Corporations while BJP won 50 seats to wrest Thiruvananthapuram from CPM-led LDF in Local bodies poll today.The UDF won Kollam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kannur Corporations while Kannur went in favour of the Left front.The NDA won Palakkad Municipality for the third time and …
Kochi: Staying Kerala High Court’s verdict declaring Munambam property as non Waqf land, the Supreme Court ordered maintaining quo in the matter till January 27, media reports said.However, the division bench of the Apex Court did not stay Kerala High Court order upholding the State Government’s decision to appoint a one-member Commission of Inquiry to …
Kochi: Over 75% polling was recorded in the second and final phase of the Local Bodies polls in Thrissur, Palakkad, Kannur, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Kasaragod on Thursday.Electors voted to elect members to village panchayats, Block panchayats, District Panchayats, Municipalities and Corporations.Voting was held in 18,274 polling stations from 7 am to 6 pm. There …
Kochi: Ground is set for the Supreme Court deciding the new Vice Chancellors of two universities in Kerala where Kerala government and Governor divided on the issue, media reports said.The decision came in the purview of the Apex Court after Kerala government and Governor failed to meet the deadline of December 9 to find out …
Kochi: There were “womanisers” and “perverts” in Congress, alleged Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan whose Left front was accused of protecting women abusers, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala claimed, media reports said.Speaking to reporters after casting his vote for local body polls in Kannur, Vijayan made the allegations when responding to rape accused expelled Congress …
Kochi: Congress in Kerala has cut a sorry figure after expelling rape accused Rahul Mamkootathil, MLA, who has repreive from two courts in two different cases.With assembly polls just five months away, Congress has lost a winnable candidate who has huge options to select his future even as BJP is waiting to grab any popular …
Chicago: Apu John Joseph has requested overseas Malayalis and organizations to invest in support of farmers who have had success in agri-entrepreneurship. He opined that overseas Malayalis can support the agriculturists by becoming venture capitalists in these sectors. He brought these matters to the attention of American Malayalis in cities like Chicago, New York, Miami …
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