Kollam: Tens of thousands of devotees thronged the Mata Amritanandamayi Math at Vallikkavu near here to celebrate her 56th birthday on Sunday.
The celebrations began at 7 am with a `satsang’ and `pada pooja’ conducted by the Swami Amritaswaroopananda, Vice-Chairman of the Math. In her birthday message, the Mata said warmongering, addiction to drugs and liquor [...]
Alleging that the state was witnessing police-mafia nexus, Kerala Congress (M) leader K M Mani M L A said the recurring temple theft incidents were clear evidences of general “break down” of law and order situation in the state.
Police miserably failed to arrest the culprits involved in the temple theft cases reported in the last [...]
Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Saturday called for the central government to take up the security of the coasts.
“The need of the hour is that the centre should take up the security of the coast. If they can’t do it fully, at least 50 per cent should definitely be taken up by them because states [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy has denied that he violated the model code of conduct and the Representation of the People Act by undertaking a visit to Kannur on election day on April 16. The Election Commission had sought his remarks on a complaint filed by Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) Wednesday announced a pre-tax profit of Rs.60.32 crore (Rs.603.2 million) for the fiscal year 2008-09.
Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, who is also chairman of CIAL, after a meeting of the board of directors said the profit after tax has seen a sharp rise from Rs.47.12 crore (Rs.471.2 million) in [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: A Kerala court Monday ordered the police to register a case against Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and Communist Party of India-Marxist state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and seven others for an official file, pertaining to the SNC Lavalin scam, that is allegedly missing.
Vijayan has been named the ninth accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala will see polling for all its 20 Lok Sabha seats April 16 in the first phase of the elections, with women outnumbering male voters by 809,642.
Kerala’s chief electoral officer (CEO) Nalini Netto Monday said there are 21,865,324 voters in the state, of which 11,337,483 are women. There are 217 candidates in the fray [...]
Palakkad: Launching an attack on the CPI-M-led LDF government in Kerala, AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday charged that corruption and laxity in administration was the main reason behind people not getting welfare and development schemes of the Centre.
Launching his day-long election campaign in the left bastion of Kerala, Gandhi, at a public meeting here, [...]
UPA govt has no achievement to claim: Advani Palakkad: Continuing his attack on the Manmohan Singh government at the Centre, BJP leader L K Advani Sunday said the UPA rule had “no achievement” to claim compared to the NDA’s performance under A B Vajpayee.
Hitting the campaign trail in Kerala a day after Singh’s visit, Advani [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: With just five days to go for the Lok Sabha elections, three pre-poll surveys in Kerala predict a sweep by the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) but the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) is still hopeful of good results.
The first prediction that came out Thursday was The Week/CVoter durvey, which said the UDF is [...]