The Kerala Assembly was adjourned for the second time this week on Thursday over the Opposition's uproar following the Suryanelli rape controversy. The Opposition walked out of the assembly after allegations that women MLAs of the LDF were beaten up by the police. ...
11:02 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Political differences among parties should not prevent them from taking part in discussions on Bills and issues, Kerala assembly Speaker G Karthikeyan said on Wednesday hoping that the session commencing on Dec 10 will be productive. ...
02:33 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran CPM leader P Govinda Pillai passed away in a hospital here after age-related health problems, his family said on Friday. He was 86. Pillai, popularly known as PG, had been admitted to hospital about a week ago. The soft spoken ideologue of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, died in a private hospital late on Thursday. A voracious reader, a popular orator and a very strong writer, PG had...
10:21 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Kanhangad: CPM on Tuesday alleged that the ruling Congress led UDF government was trying to destroy state funded Kudumbashree, the women's Self Help Group for poverty alleviation programme. Speaking after inaugurating a party office at Pollakkad near Kanhangad in Kasargod district, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan alleged that UDF was allergic' towards Kudumbasree from the time it assumed office and was continuing that attitude. By promoting pro-congress 'Janashree mission', government...
05:40 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Kozhikode: Political exploitation by certain organisations after dividing the society on the lines of religion and community is the biggest threat the nation is facing now, Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty has said. He was speaking at the remembrance meeting of IUML leaders Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal and Syed Umar Bafaqi Thangal organised by the IUML district committee here on Sunday. Certain forces are always trying to create communal...
01:00 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Kochi: Even as there is an evident rift within the UDF and the government following the Emerging Kerala investors meet, the Opposition has failed to cash in on the opportunity. Though there were some hue and cry over the meet, none of the Opposition parties could come up with solid criticisms. Neither the Opposition parties nor the social groups could come up with a convincing and effective criticism against the...
01:13 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The dawn-to-dusk strike called by the LDF and the BJP to protest hike in diesel prices and curtail LPG subsidy hit normal life across Kerala. Reports from different districts said the strike crippled mobility of people as public modes of transport kept off the roads and shops and hotels remained closed. There was no disruption of rail traffic. However, passengers who came by long-distance trains were caught unawares in...
10:10 AM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be holding a rally in Kolkata on Saturday evening demanding a rollback on the hike on diesel prices and the limit on just 6 LPG cylinders per year for a family. Mamata will also be demanding a rollback of subsidy cuts in cooking gas. Five central trade unions on Friday announced agitations from Saturday to demand rollback in the diesel price...
08:10 AM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: The politically tough decision of hiking diesel price and limiting the usage of LPG to just six cylinders in a year on subsidised rate has led to nation-wide protests with the UPA constituents as well as the Opposition parties taking to the streets, demanding an immediate rollback. Massive protests are taking place in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Karnal, Kanpur, Allahabad, Agra, Ludhiana and several other cities over the government's...
01:30 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Kannur: In a rare development, the outcome of the Mattanur municipal poll was celebrated by both the LDF and the UDF on Wednesday. The LDF celebrated its victory with much jubilation for it could retain the control of the municipal administration although the number of seats held by it came down causing serious embarrassment to the leadership of the CPM in the district. At the same time, the UDF camp...
01:49 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Giving clear signs of dissociation with the Emerging Kerala business summit, the LDF state committee which met here on Friday sought more clarity as precondition for any kind of co-operation with the governments efforts in organising the meet. Briefing reporters about the decisions of the LDF state committee meeting here, convener Vaikom Viswan said that Emerging Kerala was yet another exercise on the model of GIM organised by the...
11:54 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Thousands of CPI(M) workers in Kerala on Wednesday laid siege to the government secretariat during a protest that forced Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to reach his office around 5 AM, hours before a Cabinet meeting. In an unusual spectacle at dawn in a state that is too used to bandhs and protests, Chandy and four ministers had to turn up at their offices an hour before the CPI(M) siege...
02:42 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: Worldfloat.com, a new social networking site, is enabling users to move around a virtual world where they can hang out with friends, shop in malls and advertise products globally. "This is closer to real life. People can do many things they would want to do in reality like going to Paris virtually to meet a friend," Pushkar Mahatta, the website's founder told IANS. "There are plans to add...
09:35 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Oommen Chandy vs Ramesh Chennithala; V.S. Achuthanandan vs Pinayari Vijayan. The more things change, the more they remain the same in Kerala politics, with an uneasy calm in place as traditional rivalries continue within the two main groupings, United Democratic Front (UDF) and Left Democratic Front (LDF). For the last three decades and more, the political pendulum has swung between the Congress-led UDF - which is ruling right now...
08:01 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Palakkad: The CPM and the CPI should stop washing dirty linen in public and try to settle differences by talking to each other since the division has only helped the UDF push through anti-people policies, said former Water Resources Minister N K Premachandran. He was speaking to mediapersons here on Monday, along with RSP general secretary A A Azeez MLA and Kovoor Kunjumon MLA, after visiting Nelliampathy on Monday. He...
12:26 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: An interesting corollary of Google's acquisition of social-media startup Wildfire is that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's sister Arielle Zuckerberg is now a Google employee. Arielle Zuckerberg, one of Mark Zuckerberg's three sisters, works as a junior product manager with the Redwood City, California-based Wildfire that helps businesses such as Cirque du Soleil and Spotify manage social media efforts across the Internet. This interesting aspect was revealed by the...
08:04 AM, Aug 01, 2012
New York: Google is buying a company that specialises in social media marketing as it intensifies competition with Facebook for ad dollars and attention. The company, Redwood City, California-based Wildfire, helps businesses such as Cirque du Soleil and Spotify manage social media efforts across the Internet. It's an important area for Google as people spend more time on social networks such as Facebook and as advertisers follow them. Google's social...
06:24 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Opposition LDF on Monday boycotted an all-party meeting on Emerging Kerala, an investment meet to be held in Kochi, convened by the State Government here. Explaining the Opposition stand against the Emerging Kerala, Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan said in a statement here that the same Chief Minister and the same Industries Minister had organised GIM (Global Investors Meet) during the previous UDF Governments time but it failed...
12:20 PM, Jul 31, 2012
London: London's 2012 Olympics opening ceremony raced into the British charts with a collection of music from the kaleidoscopic extravaganza becoming the week's fifth-best selling compilation album after just 24 hours on sale. Friday's 27 million pound 'Isles of Wonder' spectacle, devised by filmmaker Danny Boyle and watched around the globe, was performed to a roller coaster of British music that ran from Mike Oldfield's blockbuster 'Tubular Bells' to Dizzee...
12:04 PM, Jul 30, 2012
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