Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 3( BPNS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah called upon the South Indian states to explore joint solutions to issues related to sharing of river water. He was speaking while chairing the 30th southern zonal council meeting of South Indian states and Union Territories here on Saturday. Shah also called upon the South Indian Chief […]
Thiruvananthapuram, September 3 (BPNS) Gone are those days when corrupt government officials would demand paper money for carrying out a service. Now, out of fear of anti-corruption officials, they have switched to electronic cash. There are also instances in which some officials demand ATM cards for receiving that unaccounted money and spend the same as […]
Thiruvananthapuram, September 2 (BPNS) The inhuman act of some as part of a road widening project in Kerala’s Malappuram district left many with a heavy heart. The video of the incident, in which an operator of an earth mover felled a tree that was home to scores of birds, resulting in the killing of birds, […]
Thiruvananthapuram, September 2 (BPNS) The state cabinet is set to have a minor reshuffle as the ruling front Communist Party of India (Marxist) decided to appoint Speaker MB Rajesh as a minister. A first-time MLA, Rajesh will replace MV Govindan, who was recently appointed as CPI(M) state secretary. As per a statement from the CPI(M) […]
New Delhi, Sep 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court Friday granted interim bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad, arrested on June 25 for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame “innocent people” in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, a day after excoriating the Gujarat High Court over delayed listing of her bail prayer. A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday […]
Kochi, Sep 2 (PTI) The Kerala High Court on Friday declined to stay the trial in the 2015 Assembly ruckus case in which General Education Minister V Sivankutty and some other prominent LDF leaders are also among the accused. Justice Ziyad Rahman A A asked all the accused, including LDF convener E P Jayarajan and Left […]
Cuttack, Sept 2 (PTI) A special POCSO judge in Odisha’s Cuttack was found dead at his official residence here on Friday, police said. The deceased 49-year-old judge was identified as Subash Kumar Behari. The body of the POCSO court judge was found hanging from a ceiling fan and there were injury marks on his neck, said […]
Kochi, Sep 2 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India’s first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant here on Friday, which put India into a select league of countries with domestic capability to build such large warships. The Prime Minister commissioned the carrier, built at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore, at a […]
Chennai, Sept 2 (BPNS) Incessant and untimely rains in Tamil Nadu has affected the Cotton and Maize cultivation in the state. In Permbalur district of the state, a stream breach has led to the total destruction of more than 100 acres of Cotton and Maize cultivation. At Keezha Permbalur in Veppur Union of Permbalur district, […]
Chennai, Sept 2 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin will be meeting his Kerala counterpart, Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday at Thiruvananthapuram. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister is reaching Kerala to participate in the South Indian ,Chief Minister’s conference at the Kerala capital in which Union Home Minister, Amit Shah is attending. The discussions between […]
