Thiruvananthapuram: Terming as "unilateral" the findings of the Supreme Court appointed Empowered Committee on Mullaperiyar Dam, Kerala Water Resources Minister PJ Joseph on Tuesday said there was no change in the state's stand on construction of a new dam. The panel relied on the report of Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu to come to the conclusion that the reservoir was safe, rejecting the studies by Roorkie and Delhi IIT's, he...
12:57:05 PM May 29, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Veteran CPM leader V S Achuthanadan on Sunday termed the Thodupuzha speech byIdukki district party secretary M M Mani as an awful attempt to brand the CPM as a party of murderers.Coming down heavily on Manis statement, Achuthanandan said at Chembazhanthy here that he could state this categorically as he was the partys state secretary during the period mentioned by Mani.The veteran CPM leader urged people not to believe...
09:36:00 AM May 28, 2012
NEYYATINKARA: Sundays may come and Sundays may go. But this Sunday was quite different for political parties and main contestants in the Neyyatinkara segment which goes for a bypoll in the weekend, as all of them thronged various parishes after the Mass to seek votes.Being the last Sunday before the bypoll on June 2, all the main candidates flocked to the parishes in the morning hours. While UDF candidate R...
08:12:00 AM May 28, 2012
Kochi: Kerala may be facing a unique kind of brain drain - one of the educated, feminine ilk. As per the finding of the recently-concluded Kerala Migration Survey 2011 by the Centre for Development Studies, for every 100 women in the state, a significantly high 33 relocate to other cities. Out of those who choose to make a living outside Kerala, 51 women per 100 are in the 20-24 age...
12:52:22 PM May 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Citing increasing incidence of diseases like oral cancer, the Congress-led UDF government in Kerala on Friday announced a ban on the manufacture and sale of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco in the state with immediate effect. Announcing the decision at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said the ban on gutka and pan masala containing tobacco and nicotine was enforced under the provisions of Food...
03:55:22 PM May 25, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Centre for Development Studies here has started the ground work for the seventh round of the comprehensive study on international and internal emigration from the state, says the study head. S. Irudayarajan, chief of the migration unit of the autonomous research institute, told IANS that the next round of the study would be based on the 2011 Census. "Our previous studies were based on the 2001 Census. This...
02:14:33 PM May 25, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A day after the petrol price hike, the Kerala government at a special cabinet meeting on Thursday decided to forgo the sales tax on petrol, reducing its price by Rs 1.63 per litre. "This will cost the exchequer Rs 218 crore," Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told reporters here. "I have also written to the prime minister, UPA chairperson and petroleum minister, saying that the hike will affect the people...
06:28:39 PM May 24, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The dawn-to dusk hartal called separately by LDF and BJP in Kerala to protest the increase in petrol price partially affected normal life across the state on Thursday. Early reports from different districts said shops remained closed in cities and towns and private buses were largely off the roads. Private vehicles are plying and no violence has been reported from anywhere, police said. The pro-Left transport sector unions have...
10:21:23 AM May 24, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Two Italian marines, lodged in the Central Prison here for allegedly shooting to death two Indian fishermen, would be shifted to Kochi. This was decided by the state government on Wednesday in view of the Supreme Court direction to it to take a stand on the plea of the Italian authorities to move the marines away from the Central Prison. Borstal school, where the two marines will be kept...
08:23:37 AM May 24, 2012
Kozhikode: The Special Investigation team probing the murder of Marxist rebel and Revolutionary Marxist Party leader TP Chandrasekharan has arrested one of the gang members who allegedly hacked him to death. He was arrested in Mysore by SIT and would be produced at a court at nearby Vadakara this evening, police said. Police said SIT are also verifying whether the man, who was reportedly injured in the attack had got...
03:31:18 PM May 23, 2012
NEW DELHI: Left with not many options, the CPM central leadership has decided to continue with its usual wait and watch policy even though V S Achuthanandan has lobbed the ball into their court with his controversial letter in the backdrop of the murder of RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan.The available PB which met here on Tuesday has decided to play down the matter for the time being and not...
08:39:00 AM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding Italy's unhappiness over the "unacceptable nature of the judicial developments" involving two of its marines, India on Tuesday made it clear that it will not "interfere" in the trial of two Italians facing murder charges in Kerala. "The judicial process is on and the Government of India is never known to interfere in tha process," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said when asked about framing of murder...
06:07:10 PM May 22, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: In an emotional post on his blog on his birthday, Malayalam superstar Mohanlal has said he feels scared to live in a place where people kill or "hire goons" to eliminate fellow-beings. Referring to the brutal murder of Revolutionary Marxist leader TP Chandrasekharan at Onchiyam in Kozhikode district on May 4, he wondered if Kerala was turning into an asylum. In the note titled 'Ormayil Randu Ammamar (Thinking of...
03:06:59 PM May 22, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPM is busy dealing with crisis after crisis, be it the gruesome murder of a renegade or the letter of its veteran leader. And for the comrades, the 75th anniversary of hoisting the party flag in the state seems to have failed to bring any cheers. But V V Giri, former Information Commissioner of the state, though not a party worker, has every reason to be elated as...
08:09:00 AM May 22, 2012
KOZHIKODE: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is learnt to have received definite leads regarding the role of CPM leaders in hiding the main accused in the RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan murder case. The police team is reportedly inching closer to the real conspirators by thoroughly blocking all chances for them to escape.As part of the investigation, four more persons were taken into custody by the police on Sunday.The arrested...
09:04:00 AM May 21, 2012
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