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Kerala lecturer TJ Joseph, whose right hand was chopped off by radicals in July, has now been sacked by his college authorities on the grounds of hurting religious sentiments of a certain community.
Joseph was reportedly removed from service with effect f
Read Full StoryKozhikode (Kerala): Mired in a match-fixing controversy, tainted Pakistani fast bowler Mohammed Asif who was to debut in a Malayalam film has now been dropped from the movie, according to its director Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri.
Namboothiri told medi
Read Full StoryFive new channels will beam into Kerala homes soon, providing viewers more choices but crowding the television business in the state.
Currently, there are nine TV channels broadcasting in the state. Of these, Asianet, India Vision, People (Kairali) and Mala
Read Full StoryOver 600 dancers painted like tigers and 300 percussionists took to the main thoroughfare of this sylvan Kerala town to perform the ancient Pulikali or the tiger dance as part of the Onam festivities.
More than 20,000 people Thursday lined the streets of th
Read Full StoryVeteran Malayalam writer and orator Sukumar Azhikode said Thursday he was taking legal action against superstar Mohanlal for his remarks that Azhikode suffers from “hallucinations” and demanded an apology.
Speaking to IANS, the 84-year-old littérateur said
Read Full StoryAt about 8.30 a.m., Shashi Tharoor tied the auspicious ‘thali’ around long-time friend Sunanda Pushkar’s neck, exchanged jasmine garlands with her and presented her with a ‘podava’ or new set of clothes, in a traditional Kerala Hindu wedding solemnised at the
Read Full StoryPeople’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Nasir Maudany, an accused in the 2008 Bangalore bomb blasts, was late Tuesday handed over to the custody of Bangalore police till Aug 26.
The first Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Venkatesh Hulagi ordered
Read Full StoryEnding eight days of suspense, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Nazir Maudany was Tuesday arrested for his alleged involvement in the 2008 Bangalore bombings amid emotional scenes at the orphanage run by him as a large number of children wept and ki
Read Full StoryKerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Wednesday said the Karnataka Police had not given any information about the impending arrest of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Nazir Maudany, an accused in the 2008 Bangalore bomb blasts case.
A four-m
Read Full StoryThe Kerala Catholic Bishop’s Conference (KCBC) Monday hit back at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) by asserting that the church will indulge in politics and it would be to strengthen democracy.
The KCBC’s statement came shortly after CPI-M leade
Read Full StoryA German couple from Munich was killed when a train rammed into their vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing in Kerala’s Alappuzha district, police said Sunday.
Fiftyfive-year-old Manfred Herbert and his 47-year-old wife Catherine were killed in the accide
Read Full StoryDirector General of Kerala Police Jacob Punnose Thursday said the police have begun a probe into the forged letters sent on behalf of the chief minister and home minister to union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in connection with the promotion of 15 state police
Read Full StoryPrime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday released a commemorative postage stamp on the late Syed Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal, a Kerala Muslim leader known for his knowledge and commitment to Sufi traditions.
The stamp was released on Thangal’s first
Read Full StoryUnder its IT@School project for computer literacy among schoolchildren, Kerala will develop one model school — with five classrooms equipped with modern tools — in all its 140 assembly constituencies, an official said Sunday.
“As part of the mo
Read Full StoryThe central government has not received any request from Kerala on banning radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Thursday.
“I’ve not got anything,” Chidambaram told IANS outside parliament, wh
Read Full StorySecurity would be increased for the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala’s Idukki district, specially in the wake of radical Muslim group Popular Front of India (PFI) being probed for suspected terror links, state Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran said Monday.
Read Full StoryThe Kerala High Court Monday annulled the election of five-time Congress Lok Sabha member Kodikunnil Suresh, holding that he was ineligible to contest from the reserved constituency of Mavelikara in Alappuzha district.
Justice Sasidharan Nambiar
Read Full StoryOfficials of the famed Attukal Bhagavathy temple here have expressed concern over a reference made by the Kerala High Court last week during a hearing on the government’s plea against curbs on roadside public meetings.
During the course of the he
Read Full StoryKerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Saturday said some Muslim organizations in the state were trying to propagate terrorism in the name of religion.
Addressing reporters here after chairing a meeting of Kerala Police officials, he said som
Read Full StoryThiruvananthapuram, July 21 (IANS) Global IT majors IBM and Oracle are planning to set up units at the Technopark here, official sources said Tuesday.
An official of the state IT department said the two companies had begun exploratory talks to se
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