Kochi: The All India Kisan Sabha of CPI has demanded revoking of the Forest Department’s notification to convert 364.39 hectares of land in Chinnakanal Village to Reserve Forest in Idukki district in Kerala. Its vice president Mathew Varghese welcomed the Kerala government’s decision to suspend the implementation of the order. Mathew said the government should …
Kochi: Charge Sheet was filed in the controversial Muttil tree cutting case in the First Class Judicial Magistrate’s court, Sultan Bathery on Monday.The 84,600-page charge sheet was filed after perusing 400 articles of evidence, including DNA test reports of the trees to study their age.Twelve persons including Muttil South village officer K K Aji and …
Kochi: Michaung Cyclone has inundated Chennai and many areas in Northern Tamil Nadu while the government has ordered people to stay indoors, media reports said.Social media is flooded with people sharing scores of pictures of floods. Bus, rail and air services have come to a standstill, the reports said.Power outages are reported from most of …
Kochi: Former Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory) Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s National Conference has said that his party will fight polls in the Union Territory independently, media reports said.Congratulating the BJP-led alliance over winning polls in three out of the four states, Abdullah said that the Congress had failed terribly, though it did well in …
Kochi: The grand old party Congress’ decision to float the I.N.D.I.A coalition to crush BJP has failed to deliver the goods in the Hindi heartland in the assembly elections in which the BJP is leading 3-1.All credits to the Congress-led front for doing exceedingly well in Telangana where it will form the new government thrashing …
Kochi: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has intensified its probe into money received in bank accounts operated by the CPM in the Karuvannur Cooperative Bank scam in Thrissur in Kerala, media reports quoting ED said. The amount that was received by CPM accounts in Karuvannur Cooperative Bank were not substantiated by the CPM district secretary …
Kochi: A medical doctor born in the United States and residing there for several decades lost citizenship of the country.The 62-year-old Siavash Sobhani from Virginia lost his citizenship on the grounds that his late father was an Iranian diplomat at the time of his birth, NDTV said quotating the Washington Post. Dr Sobhani was shocked …
Kochi: Three members of a family were detained in connection with the abduction of the 6-year-old Abigel Sara Reji who was later found abandoned in Kollam city, media reports said. The arrested, which included two male and a female, belonged to Chathannoor in Kollam.They were arrested in Tenkasi in Tamil Nadu by a special squad …
Kochi: Senior government pleader of the Kerala High Court P G Manu resigned after a sexual abuse case was registered against him, media reports said.The resignation was submitted to the Advocate General after he was booked on the basis of a complaint of a 25-year-old woman who accused him of sexually abusing her when she …
Kochi: In a setback to the ruling Left government, the reappointment of Gopinath Ravindran as Vice-Chancellor of Kannur University was quashed by the Supreme Court on Thursday. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, in a judgment set aside the Kerala High Court verdict upholding the re-appointment of Ravindran. The court …
Kochi: A mid air fight between a husband and wife forced the pilots to land the plane in New Delhi on Wednesday, media reports said.The Bangkok-bound Lufthansa airlines flight tried to land in Pakistan but was denied permission.Following this the aircraft from Munich was allowed to land at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in …
Kochi: In a blow to 29 lawyers, the Kerala High Court has initiated contempt proceedings against them for allegedly abusing a female Magistrate in Kottayam.The lawyers had also boycotted court proceedings as a protest against the Chief Judicial Magistrate booking lawyer Nawab M P in an alleged fraud case under various sections of the IPC.A …
Kochi: After 17 days of suspense, 41 rat miners trapped in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand since November 12 were rescued on Tuesday evening, media reports said. The rescue was possible after the work on laying pipes through the rubble ended in the morning. The NDRF and SDRF teams entered the tunnel to evacuate the …
Kochi: After 20 hours of suspense, abducted six year old Abigel Sara Reji was traced at Asramam ground in Kollam today, media reports said. The abductors had escaped after abandoning the child who was noticed by the people, the reports said. The girl was found at about 1.30 pm by the people who informed the …
Kochi: A six-year-old girl was abducted for a ransom of Rs 5 lakh from Kollam in a car while she was returning home from school with her brother, media reports said.The abductors came in a white car and dragged Abigel Sara and into the car when Abigel and her eight year old brother Jonathan reached …
Idukki: The Kerala Congress (M) –led LDF panel named Sahakarana Samrakshana Munnani has swept the election held on Sunday to the governing committee of Malanad Co-operative Agricultural & Rural Development Bank in Nedumkandam by winning all 13 seats. The election to the cooperative bank which is said to have 30,500 voters spread across 13 panchayats in …
Kochi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids in the house of migrant workers in Kozhikode in Kerala on Sunday, media reports said. The raids were held in the camps in South Beach in connection with the alleged links of the suspects with Pakistan-based handlers. These suspects were involved in promoting radical and anti-national activities …
Kochi: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shiv Kumar has been selected for the J Alexander memorial award. The award, constituted in memory of late Karnataka Minister J Alexander, will be presented on January 14, 2024, coinciding with the second death anniversary of Alexander, J Alexander Study Centre, who are organising the event, said. Political …
Kochi: IIT and IIM degree holder and founder of Subhiksha retail chain, Subramanian has been sentenced to 20 years by a Chennai court for defrauding investors, media reports said. Levying a penalty of Rs 8.92 crore on Subramanian and Rs 191.98 crore on the entities, the court directed to pay Rs 180 crore to the …
Kochi: Kerala has a long history of disasters for poor planning, which continues unabated like the one at CUSAT that claimed four lives even as the government gets away with lame excuses, media reports said.The Sabarimala stampedes in 1999, 2011, Puttingal temple tragedy in 2016, Kerala floods in 2018, boat disasters in Kumarakom in 2002, …
