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Kochi: Once a hardcore leftist, A P Abdullah Kutty is now a Modi fan and has welcomed the Left government’s decision to study Gujarat model.It is a positive change in the approach but it is not known what CPM leaders like Prakash Karat and others have to say about it, Abdullah Kutty, who was kicked out

Kochi: In a shift from its original stand, the LDF government has decided to study the Gujarat model of governance.A team from Kerala will leave for  Gujarat on Wednesday to study the BJP government’s tool of good governance.The team headed by Chief Secretary V P Joy will visit Gujarat from April 27 to 29.The team

Kochi: Eleven devotees were electrocuted and at least six seriously injured when they were pulling a chariot in connection with a temple festival in Thanjavur in the wee hours of today.The dead included a few children, media reports said.The event was organised in connection with Apar Gurupuja in remembrance of a saint Thirunavukarassar in Kalimedu,

Kochi: Veteran Congress leader K Sankaranarayanan, 90, passed away at his house in Palakkad.He was suffering from old age illness.Starting his career as a local scribe, Sankaranarayanan became active in politics at grassroot level.He came up the hard way without any god father to back him.He was Palakkad District Congress Committee president from 1962 to

Kochi: In a revolutionary decision, the new AAP government has announced 300 units of free electricity to households in Punjab. At a time when people in Punjab were tortured with hefty power bills, the decision comes as a blessing. The decision was announced by the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after holding discussions with Punjab

Kochi: Another killing of an RSS activist Sreenivasan, 45, rocks Palakkad hours after the slaying of an SDPI leader Subair in the district on Saturday. Six assailants in three two wheelers reached the shop at Melamuri. They barged into his automobile shop and hacked him at around 1 pm, media reports said. Sreenivasan, a former

Kochi: The Crime Branch has filed a petition in the trial court seeking cancellation of the bail of actor Dileep on charges of violating bail conditions in the actor assault case of 2017. The petition said that there was evidence of Dileep influencing witnesses which is a breach of bail conditions. New evidence is coming

Kochi: Noted actress Kavya Madhavan has been summoned by the crime branch in connection with the actor assault case of February 17, 2017 in Kochi. Kavya has been asked to appear before the investigation team at Aluva police club on Monday morning, media reports said. The questioning is part of the investigation taken up by

Kochi: Cyber specialist and seventh accused in the conspiracy case to harm police officials, Sai Sankar was arrested by the investigation team in Andhra Pradesh. Sai Sankar, who was accused of helping Dileep to delete objectionable data from his phone, was arrested from Andhra Pradesh yesterday for failing to appear before the investigation team for questioning.

Kochi: Congress gets another blow as senior Congress leader and former Union Minister K V Thomas is all set to bid adieu to the party. The Congress had refused permission to the 75-year-old former professor from attending a seminar organised by the CPM coinciding with the party Congress at Kannur. The 75-year-old former professor, Thomas, had sought

Kochi: The Royal Mercedes Benz car of the erstwhile Travancore kingdom will be gifted to NRI businessman M A Yusuf Ali. Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma had announced his decision to present the car to the chairman of Lulu group Yusuf Ali in 2012when Ali visited Pattom palace in 2012 on Varma’s invitation. The 1955 model

Kochi: The actor assault case of 2017 has polarised Mollywood with one section siding with Dileep and the other one with the survivor. There is a war of words between the two blocs during debates in TV channels with each group fighting to the hilt to subdue the other. The rivalry between the artists became

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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