Kerala

Kannur, Sept 20 Senior CPM leader and State Secretariat member P Jayarajan has accused Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan and the UDF government of creating favourable conditions for the Sangh Parivar to strengthen its presence in Kerala. Addressing the media in Kannur, Jayarajan alleged that Sangh Parivar organisations were among those most pleased with Satheesan becoming […]

Kollam ,Sept 19 Former Governor, advocate and author Adv. P. S. Sreedharan Pillai has been selected for this year’s Amritakeerthi Award instituted by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math. The award comprises a cash prize of Rs. 1,23,456, a Saraswati sculpture designed by Artist Namboothiri, and a citation. The award will be presented at a function to […]

  Thiruvananthapuram,Sept 13 Long before Kerala’s ageing population became a policy concern, Rev. Dr Samuel T. Varghese recognised that senior citizens needed more than medical attention. They required companionship, dignity and a place within the community. That conviction led him to establish ‘Pakalveedu’,also known as Caring India, in Thiruvananthapuram in 1996. Described as Kerala’s first […]

Malappuram, Sept 7 A 38-year-old migrant worker has been arrested for allegedly killing his roommate by assaulting him and pushing him through an open window of a four-storey building near Edavannappara in Malappuram district. The arrested man was identified as Sunil Kiro, a native of Jharkhand. The victim, Prakash, 47, was also from Jharkhand. Both […]

  Thiruvananthapuram,Sept 7 Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar has criticised the state government for registering a case against journalist Aparna Kurup after she spoke out against remarks by Kanthapuram that she considered derogatory to women. In a statement, Chandrasekhar said the authorities should have protected the journalist, who had reportedly faced death threats and online […]

  Malappuram, Sept 6(IANS) Two youths were killed and three others injured when a car collided with a lorry on National Highway 66 at Idimuzhikkal near Chelambra in Malappuram district, adding to a grim series of fatal crashes on Kerala’s main coastal highway. The deceased were identified as Jamsheer and Haris, both residents of Koomanna […]

  Thrissur, Sept 5: Eight engineering students from Tamil Nadu were killed in a devastating road accident after their car crashed into a stationary goods lorry on National Highway 66 at Kaipamangalam in Kerala’s Thrissur district around midnight on Friday. The accident occurred at Panambikkunnu Centre, along a section of NH-66 where highway widening and […]

  Thiruvananthapuram ,Sept 5 Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan on Saturday expressed concern over increasing accidents and safety hazards on National Highways in the state, particularly on stretches undergoing construction, and said the issue would be urgently taken up with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). His intervention followed a major accident on National […]

  By Abey George P. H. Kurien, a respected former government official and Founder Trustee of the Swasthi Foundation, has been remembered as a compassionate administrator, visionary social worker and tireless advocate of cancer prevention whose life touched countless people. His passing has left a profound void in his family, among his colleagues and throughout […]