Tag: Kerala

Kollam (Kerala): Six RSS workers have been taken into custody for an attack on poet Kureepuzha Sreekumar, that took place near here late last night. Sreekumar was attacked by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers when he was about to leave the venue of a meeting where he had delivered a speech on an ongoing […]

Thiruvananthapuram: NCP leader A.K. Saseendran, who had to quit as Kerala Transport Minister in 2017 over a sleaze charge, will be sworn in as a minister on Thursday. The NCP leader had to resign in March 2017 after a sleaze chat of his with a woman journalist had surfaced. Last week, a court cleared Saseendran […]

Thiruvananthapuram: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) legislator K.K. Ramachandran Nair from Chengannur in Kerala’s Alappuzha district died at a hospital in Chennai in the early hours of Sunday, party sources said. The 65-year-old first-time legislator was ailing for a while and was undergoing treatment . His body will be brought here later on Sunday, and […]

Sabarimala (Kerala): Authorities here are finding it tough to manage the massive rush of pilgrims at the famed Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala. The wait for a pilgrim to get a “darshan” is eight hours, said a temple official. “The rush has reached its peak. All pilgrims have been instructed not to remain at the […]

Thiruvananthapuram: The central team that is touring Cyclone Ockhi-hit villages in Kerala to assess the damages on Wednesday sanctioned the first instalment of Rs 133 crore to the state government. Cyclone Ockhi struck the southern districts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu on November 30. The team, consisting of disaster management experts, led by Vipin Mallik, a […]

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has suspended Director General of Police (DGP) Jacob Thomas on charges of violating service rules, officials said on Wednesday. The suspension order came on Tuesday night. Thomas was suspended from service by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan for violating the All India Service Rules after it surfaced that the officer had spoken […]

Gandhinagar: Gujarat is geared “for the worst situation” as cyclone Ochki, that left a trail of destruction in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, is expected to make landfall near Surat by Tuesday midnight, officials said. The authorities have closed schools in the region till Wednesday. The Coast Guard has called back around 13,000 fishing boats that […]

Thiruvananthapuram: The fishermen community decided to launch their own rescue operations as 55 boats ventured into the sea to search for the 115 missing fishermen here on Sunday. According to the latest reports, the cyclone Ockhi has claimed the lives of 10 persons with 475 fishermen rescued so far. Rescue teams decided to step up […]

Thrissur (Kerala): A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist was allegedly murdered by CPI-M workers here on Sunday, has claimed the State Bharatiya Janata Party. The incident occurred at around 1.30 p.m. when Anand, who was on a two-wheeler, was knocked down by a car. He was then hacked to death. Anand was pronounced dead in […]

New Delhi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday warned people against the forces trying to destroy the country’s diversity and exhorted them to fight them. They were speaking after inaugurating a three-day ‘Kerala Delhi Cultural Heritage Festival’, to be held at three main venues in central Delhi — Central […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday referred to a Constitution Bench the question whether a ban on the entry of women in the age group 10-50 years in Kerala’s Sabarimala temple was discriminatory and violative of the Right to Equality under Article 14. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice R. Banumathi and […]

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said it has arrested one accused for organising a terror camp in Kerala’s Kannur district in 2013. The person arrested was identified as Azharudeen aka Azhar, 24, a resident of Narath in Kerala. An NIA official told IANS that Azhar was arrested on Monday night. He […]

Panaji: The suicides of two youngsters in Kerala and Maharashtra while playing the Blue Whale challenge, has forced the Goa Police to issue a formal advisory to parents on safeguarding their wards from playing the online game. The advisory released by the Crime Branch late on Thursday, asked parents to install parental control software in computers […]

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Congress legislator M. Vincent was on Saturday arrested, a day after being charged with sexual harassment and stalking of a 51-year-old woman who attempted suicide earlier this week. Before being arrested, Vincent, a first-time legislator, was grilled for over two hours by a team of police. He was later taken for further interrogation. The […]

Kannur: In a shocking incident, a female candidate who appeared at a NEET centre here on Sunday claimed she had to remove her innerwear before sitting for the entrance test. Other women candidates too faced a harrowing experience due to a strict dress code in force. The anguished candidate told media persons after attempting the […]