The Kerala high court on Friday termed the frequent hike in prices of petroleum products as "slow death", while the Congress-led UDF government decided to forgo the state's share of additional tax on petrol, making it cheaper by 37 paise.
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Cong indicates partial rollbackSenior CPM leader MV Jayarajan was sentenced to six-months' imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,000 for contempt of court on Tuesday.
Opposing the move to dilute the RTI Act, BJP leader LK Advani today said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's talk of a relook at the Act could be due to "sharp" differences between some of his ministers giving the impression of a "civil war" within the government.
BJP leader L K Advani today said tradition should be maintained with regard to the huge treasures found in the vaults of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram and praised the Travancore Royal family for keeping such an enormous wealth intact for centuries.
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani said his party would oppose any move to revoke the armed forces special powers act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir. HT reports.
Eminent novelist George Varghese Kakkanadan, one of the pioneers of modern Malyalam literature, on Wednesday passed away at a private hospital, family members said.
Ahead of the pilgrim season set to start in mid-November, Balamurali Namboodiri of Edamana Illam was on Tuesday selected as the 'melsanthi' (head priest) of the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple
Kerala assembly was adjourned for the day as opposition LDF MLAs demonstrated in the well of the House for the second day on Tuesday over suspension of two CPI(M) members.
Kannada actress Jaimala, accused of outraging religious feelings at the famed Sabarimala temple in Kerala, got a reprieve today when the Kerala high court stayed the state government permission to prosecute her and two others.
Documentation of the nearly Rs. 1 lakh crore-worth treasure unearthed at the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala would begin Nov 9, said the head of a Supreme Court-appointed committee on Saturday.
Inflation and rising real estate prices have led to an unexpected windfall for the medical community in Kerala. More and more people are now donating their bodies for research.
The state government has extended the jail term of former minister R Balakrishna Pillai by four days for giving a telephonic interview to a Malayalam news channel last week in violation of prison norms.
Going against the grain of Kerala’s success in family planning, the Syro-Malabar church in the northern part of the state has exhorted its followers to produce more children and pocket an attractive fixed deposit.
Leading poet and critic K Satchidanandan is happy to figure on the list of 18 probables in the race for the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature this year.
The road to peace between India and Pakistan will have to be mapped by building on the shared heritage and the common social malaise confronting the two nations. And the onus of the task lies on the youth, author and peace activist Fatima Bhutto said on Saturday.