Kochi: Legendary Malayalam filmmaker and screenwriter Kulakkattil Geevarghese George, 77, passed away in Kochi today, media reports said. Founder of a new school of filmmaking, he was a contemporary of popular film makers Bharathan and P Padmarajan, in the eighties. He won the Government of Kerala’s highest honour J C Daniel Award, for contributions to …
Kochi: Telugu Desam Party chief and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was remanded to judicial custody in an alleged Rs 300 crore corruption case by a Court in Andhra Pradesh today.The Vijayawada Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, before which Naidu was produced in connection with a Rs 300 crore scam, rejected his bail plea …
Kochi: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was arrested under non bailable offenses in connection with an alleged scam of Rs 317 crore, media reports said.Naidu has been charged under sections of criminal conspiracy, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property among others. Provisions under Prevention of Corruption Act have been slapped on …
Kochi: India successfully launched its solar mission Aditya L1 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh today.The RS 300 crore space-based Indian observatory Aditya L1 is sent to study the dynamics of the Solar upper atmosphere, the reports said.It is structured to study the in-situ particle and plasma environment and provide data for the study of particle …
Kochi: Jet Airways (India) founder Naresh Goyal, 74, has been taken nto custody by the ED in a money laundering case worth Rs 538 crore, media reports said.After sustained questioning, he was taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).He will be produced before a special PMLA court in Mumbai on Saturday. …
Kochi:Non Residents of Jammu and Kashmir were deprived of some key constitutional rights through Article 35A, the Supreme Court has said, media reports said.The article snatched away equality of opportunity, employment in the state government and right to buy land, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has said while hearing petitions against scrapping of …
Kochi: Ten passengers from Uttar Pradesh were charred to death in a fire that broke out in a private IRCTC coach stationed in the yard of the Madurai Railway junction on Saturday, media reports said.Explosion of an LPG cylinder is suspected to be the reason behind the fire, media reports said.The dead included two women, …
Kochi: Superstar Allu Arjun has won Best Actor award in Pushpa while Alia Bhatt and Kriti Sanon shared the best actress award in the 69th National Film Awards 2023.Bhatt won it for her role in Gangubai Kathiyawadi’ and Sanon Mimi.Malayalam Actor Indrans got special mention for his performance in the film Home which was also …
Kochi: India created history by landing on the South pole of the moon under Chandrayaan-3 mission on Wednesday evening. A similar mission by Russia’s Luna-25 failed a few days back. Chandrayaan-3 was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on July 14. Landing module Vikram, named after father of the Indian …
Kochi: Noted filmmaker Siddique, 64, passed away in a private hospital here on Monday evening, media reports said.He was undergoing treatment at Amrita Hospital for the last few days. Siddique was hospitalized on July 10 for non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis. He was recommended for a liver transplant when he suffered a heart attack on Sunday and …
Kochi: Puthuppally assembly constituency in Kerala will go to bypolls on September 5, the Election Commission of India said.The death of former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on July 18 necessitated the election, media reports said.Oommen Chandy’s son Chandy Oommen is the front runner as Congress-led UDF nominee.The rival CPM-led LDF, which is ruling six …
Kochi: Bringing an end to speculations, parliamentary membership of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been restored, media reports said.The Supreme Court had stayed his conviction by a Gujarat court in a 2019 defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ remarks, the reports said.His return was made possible after the Lok Sabha secretariat issued a notification in …
Kochi: Former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, 79, passed away in the wee hours of today. A seasoned Congress leader, Chandy was suffering from cancer for the last few years. He was undergoing treatment in Bengaluru. Last year he was taken to Germany for treatment.The two time chief minister Chandy’s political life began in his …
Kochi: India revived its relationship with Israel over 30 years back after freedom fighter and late premier P V Narasimha took initiatives dumping Congress’ objections to it.The country is remembering the great leader on his birth anniversary when the ties between the two countries have reached the crescendo.Born on this day in 1921 in a …
Kochi: Stating that the BJP was not for appeasement politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hinted in favour of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), media reports said.The Constitution favour equal rights and the Supreme Court is in its favour, Modi said while addressing BJP workers at Bhopal, the reports said.Targeting political parties of misleading people …
Kochi: The Opposition parties today resolved to join hands to dethrone the BJP-government in the next general election in 2024.The parties decided to keep off their differences to fight the election at a meeting held at Patna in Bihar, media reports said.The decision taken at the meeting was encouraging, Bihar Chief Minister and JDU leader …
Kochi: The Railways Board on Sunday recommended a CBI probe into the multiple train collision in Odisha on Friday killing more than 270 people, media reports said.Disclosing this Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the “root cause” of the accident and the “criminals” responsible for it have been identified, the reports quoting the minister said.The railways …
Kochi: Over 200 people were killed and more than 900 injured in a multiple train mishaps in Balasore in Odisha collision last night.The Yeshwantpur-Howrah Superfast Expressrammed into the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express which lay on the parallel track after derailment sometime before the arrival of the Howrah bound train, media reports said.This led to derailment of …
Kochi: The Himalayan state of Sikkim is likely to become a part of the railway network of the country next year, media reports said.Fifty percent of the 45-km-long Sivok-Rangpo Railway Line is over and most probably trains would chug into the state bordering China in late 2024.This would make traveling from West Bengal to Sikkim …
Kochi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case.A single bench of the High Court rejected the bail plea filed by Sisodia of Aam Aadmi Party.Cases were registered by the CBI and ED in relation to the alleged Delhi excise …
