Kochi: Film maker Aryadan Shoukath, 59, of Congress has been named UDF nominee for the Nilambur by-election.The candidate of Shoukath, who is KPCC General Secretary, was cleared by Congress high command.The UDF took the decision ignoring the offer of former Left front backed Independent and Trinamool Congress leader P V Anvar to extend his support …
Kochi: The ED has filed chargesheet against CPM leaders including K Radhakrishnan, MP, and other party leaders in connection with Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank money laundering case, media reports said.Other CPM leaders named in the chargesheet filed before Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Court in Kochi are A C Moideen, MLA, M M Varghese, …
Kochi: The Liberian container ship ‘MSC ELSA 3’ has been confirmed to have sunk off the Kochi coast earlier in the day, ‘due to flooding’, media reports said.The vessel was carrying 640 containers, including 13 with hazardous cargo and 12 containing calcium carbide. It had 84.44 MT of diesel and 367.1 MT of furnace oil.All …
Kochi: A Liberian flagged vessel encountered a mishap leading to the fall of potentially dangerous cargo approximately southwest off Kochi.The fall of the material, about 38 nautical miles southwest off Kochi, has led the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) issuing the extraordinary alert on Saturday.The KSDMA issued the warning to the public after the …
Kochi: Shubman Gill, 25, was picked to lead the 18 member squad during the 5-Test series against England starting on June 20 at Headingley, media reports said.The selection panel led by Ajit Agarkar and BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia met at Mumbai to name Gill as the 37th skipper of the country.Wicket keeper Rishabh Pant was …
Kochi: A Jharkhand Court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Lok Sabha Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi of Congress in a defamation case against Union Home Minister Amit Shah, media reports said.The MP-MLA court in Chaibasa inRanchi directed Rahul to appear before the court on June 26 on alawsuit initiated by BJP leader Pratap Katiyar on …
Kochi: The South West monsoon hit Kerala on time on Saturday causing widespread calamities across the state.Incidents of high velocity winds uprooted trees and electrical posts across the state.Restrictions have been imposed on tourism activities like boating, kayaking, rafting, trekking among others. Night travel in hilly areas has been prevented from 7 pm to 7 …
Kochi: The saga of over three years old girl Kalyani is so terrorising that the child constantly endured sexual torture from her paternal uncle for over an year before she was done to death by her own mother Sandhya on May 19, media reports said.Kalyani went missing while being brought back home by Sandhya who …
Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India will talk with Pakistan “only on the issue ofPakistan-occupied Kashmir” media reports said.Ruling out the possibility of any dialogue or trade, Modi said “If there are talks, they will only be about Pakistan-occupied Kashmir,”.Addressing a public rally in Rajasthan’s Bikaner, Modi said India had given its …
Kochi: An Israel national and his fiancee, working at the Israeli Embassy, were killed outside a Jewish museum in downtown Washington DC, BBC reported.The deceased were shot down while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, the reports said.According to Israel’s ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, the two were going to get engaged …
Kochi: Collapse of a portion of NH 66 and surfacing of cracks at different stretches across Kerala has opened a debate over the quality of construction of the much touted National Highways in the state, media reports said.The collapse of a section of NH 66 at Kooriyad in Malappuram has brought to light a series …
Booker prize for India’s Banu MushtaqKochi: Indian Activist Banu Mushtaq, 77, from Karnataka won the International Booker prize with her 12 short story anthology, Heart Lamp in Kannada, BBC reported.The short stories capture the hardships of Muslim women living in southern India.It is the first short story collection to win the prestigious prize by Mushtaq …
Kochi: Israel announced its resolution to ‘take control of all’ of Gaza even as a group of 22 countries including UK, France, Canada warned joint action like sanction against Tel Aviv, media reports said.Britain, France and Canada condemned Israel’s “egregious actions” in Gaza.Slamming those opposing Tel Aviv’s action, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu justified his …
Kochi: Pakistan’s plans to target Golden Temple in Amritsar were diffused by Indian Army during the intervening night of May 7–8, a top army official said today.Pakistan used drones and missiles to target the shrine, Major General Kartik C Seshadri, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 15th Infantry Division, said, the Hindustan Times reported.“The Pakistan …
Kochi: A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, Saifullah Khalid, alias “Vinode Kumar,” was killed by unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s Sindh province, media reports said.Khalid was a key conspirator in the 2005 Indian Science Congress (ISC) attack in Bangalore, the 2006 attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur and the 2008 CRPF camp assault …
Kochi: A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, Saifullah Khalid, alias “Vinode Kumar,” was killed by unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s Sindh province, media reports said.Khalid was a key conspirator in the 2005 Indian Science Congress (ISC) attack in Bangalore, the 2006 attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur and the 2008 CRPF camp assault …
New Pope takes chargeKochi: The new Pope Leo XIV became the first American-born of the Global Catholic Church to take charge as Pope with a Mass in St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday.Thousands of people, including dozens of world leaders and European royalty were present on the occasion.Speaking in Italian, the Pope Leo XIV …
Kochi: Seventeen people were killed in a massive fire in a building near Charminar in Hyderabad this morning.While the cause of the fire is still being investigated, a short circuit is suspected to have triggered the blaze.The area has decades old jewellery shops located in a congested manner.The bodies have been sent to hospitals.The Prime …
Kochi: US multinational tech firm Apple Inc has damned US President Donald Trump’s suggestion to make iPhones in the US instead of India.Reiterating its ‘Make in India’ commitment,Apple said it wanted to make the country a major manufacturing base.It assured that Apple’s investment plans for India are intact.India produced about 15 percent of its annual …
Kochi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) encountered failure in the launching of its 101st satellite, EOS-09, aboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C61) on Sunday.The PSLV-C61, carrying an Earth Observation Satellite, named as EOS-09, was aimed at putting a Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit (SSPO).According to the ISRO Chief, the performance was normal till the …
