Thiruvananthapuram: Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien has decried moves by various quarters in opposing the proposed Aranmula project, terming it as one which stalls the air travel needs of the NRI population in the Central Travancore belt. Criticising the so-called Greens, Kurien said one should study whether protecting over 500 acres paddy field lying fallow for long or the expenditure borne by NRIs to travel to their native...
01:31 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Parasssala Grama Panchayat has said an emphatic no to the Thiruvananthapuram Corporations plans to cart city wastes to the panchayat limits. The grama panchayat will not support any move that would prove hazardous to public health, panchayat president T K Sarojini said. On Monday, Sarojini issued a statement in this regard. The people are asking us why should we let the city dump its waste here. We are...
03:27 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The CBI Special Court here on Monday granted bail to seven policemen who are accused in the case of custodial death of Udayakumar at Fort police station. Former officers attached to the Fort police station - Jitu Kumar, Sreekumar, Soman, T K Haridas, E K Sabu, V P Mohanan and T Ajith Kumar - were granted bail. Among them, T K Haridas and E K Sabu were Circle Inspectors....
03:06 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Heres good news for those who wish to follow in the footsteps of medal-winning Olympic shooters like Vijay Kumar or Gagan Narang. Two shooting ranges, of world-class standards, would come up in the district soon. The first range is expected to be inaugurated by the end of this month at the CRPF camp, Pallippuram, while the second one, for which proposals have been submitted by Shooting Sports Foundation India...
03:34 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Thiruvananthapuram is slowly making its way up in the world of diplomacy. The state capital is all set to play host to consulates of more countries in the coming days. If things go as planned, in a few months time, Thiruvananthapuram will be home to two full-fledged consulates and two honorary ones. The latest is Sri Lanka. Colombo is reportedly eyeing Thiruvananthapuram as one of the two state capitals...
03:31 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The special team probing the murder of tipper lorry driver Saji, an accomplice of gangster Choozhattukotta Ambily, on Sunday arrested one of the key accused who directly took part in the murder. Manu alias Chenda Manu was arrested from the International Airport here in the morning when he arrived to escape to Abu Dhabi in an Oman Airways flight. The police, which apprehended Manu at 4.20 a.m, after questioning...
03:13 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Director AL Vijay has completed 'Thaandavam' and is eagerly waiting for the film's release, on September 28. While actor Vijay is on the verge of finishing off 'Thuppakki' with A R Murugadoss. Starting second week of October, the two are expected to kickstart their already announced project, which is touted as a complete commercial entertainer. Remember director Vijay is known for trying his hands at various genres. After a family...
07:05 PM, Sep 09, 2012
During the shoot of Tamil film 'Madha Gaja Raja', actor Vishal got hurt in the head during some fight sequences. Although nothing is serious, the actor has been advised to take complete rest for a couple of days. The action flick has a good dosage of comedy and sees Anjali and Vishal's close friend Varalakshmi Sarathkumar as the lead ladies. Recently some of the scenes were canned in Rajasthan, after...
01:31 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Youve seen them in movies, now you can shake hands with one in this very city. The first of the robots that will go into the making of a full-fledged Gallery of Robots has arrived at the citys Kerala State Science and Technology Museum (KSSTM). Alongside astronomy, robotics is set to become a major preoccupation of KSSTM in future. The gallery will be thrown open to the public by...
04:32 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A 21-year-old youth was hacked to death by a gang at Nedumcaud near Karamana in the wee hours of Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Saji from Thirumala. The youth was first seen lying injured near Nedumcaud school by a newspaper boy, who informed the matter to the Karamana police. The police first thought that the youth was inebriated. But when they arrived on the spot, they found that...
04:29 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Police investigating the complaint of the swindling of about Rs 22 lakh from the ATM counters of a new generation bank have found that the gang which committed a similar fraud in Kollam was behind the crime. The suspects - Kuldeep Singh, Sunny Gupta, Ramandeep Singh and Sumit Gupta - are now in judicial custody in Kollam district jail. The city police will take them into custody from the...
04:16 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Two days after it was closed down by food safety officials, an outlet of bakery chain Ambrosia in the city re-opened on Tuesday. The Bakery Junction outlet has been allowed to operate as it had a different licence, Food Safety Commissioner Biju Prabhakar said. Food safety officials had raided and closed down the outlets and the baking unit of Ambrosia after a customer found a dead cockroach in a...
04:04 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: For college students who fume that their textbooks arent abreast with the latest in their chosen fields, ISROs Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) has a sweet offer. IIST, situated at Valiamala near here, is starting a first-of-its-kind Winter School programme from this year onwards to acquaint PG students with the advancements in various subjects. This December, the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, IIST, is organising...
02:49 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has decided to provide financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh each to dependents of those who died in the gas tanker lorry blast at Chala in Kannur last week. Fixing the responsibility of the IndianOil Corporation (IOC) in the mishap, the state decided to ask the oil firm to provide suitable job to a member each of the affected families. In the absence of an employable...
02:46 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Fresh trouble is brewing inside the UDF over the upcoming Emerging Kerala investment meet with a group of UDF MLAs championing the cause of Greens and openly demanding that the state government must ensure that all land transactions for Emerging Kerala projects are transparent and according to norms. In a blog post, greenthoughtskerala. blogspot. in, which was started to discuss Green politics, the MLAs demanded that all new projects...
03:13 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala has demanded that the state government should come up with a special rehabilitation package for the victims of the Kannur tanker lorry mishap. In a letter to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy,he urged that those who lost their dear ones and those suffering from severe burns should be provided all support from the part of the State Government. It is the worst tanker lorry mishap in...
03:09 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Emerging Kerala meet will present before the potential investors and entrepreneurs a slew of projects in the primary sector. The upcoming investment summit in Kochi will display the State Governments prospective ventures aimed at making better use of its natural resources such as foodgrains, fruits, vegetables and herbs. Among the facilities that the government is planning to set up is a Food Park in Thiruvananthpuram district. It is...
01:39 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The festival season and heavy rainfall have added to the garbage mess that the capital is already in. Trash dumps, sodden with rainwater and providing a feast to vermin, have sprung up all over the city posing a major threat to health. The problem is particularly acute in the Chalai market area and Fort, with Corporation yet to begin garbage collection in earnest. The traders of the Chalai market...
06:00 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: With the heavy downpour worsening the garbage problem in the city, the City Corporation remains clueless on a solution. The Corporation is now burying the waste on vacant lands under its possession. We are burying the waste mainly on our land on the Chalai bypass. However, it cannot be carried out for long, said Deputy Mayor G Happykumar. He also said that the Corporation was yet to receive any...
05:56 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: As households in the state readied Thiru Onam lunch on Wednesday, there were those holding up empty plaintain leaves, on which the traditional meal is served, as a mark of protest. There were also those who sat in front of the state secretariat, a site where protestors gather perennially, with the empty plaintain leaves laid out before them. More than a thousand people belonging to various organisations sat in...
03:31 PM, Aug 30, 2012
