Stung by the virulent attack on him at the ongoing CPI-M state meet, party stalwart and former chief minister VS Achuthanandan has conveyed his displeasure over it to the party's central leadership.
There is an unusual rush at the Poojapura central prison of late and it is not in response to a 'jail bharo' call. People are queuing up for mouthwatering chicken curry and gossamer-thin chapatis prepared by inmates and sold for all of Rs 25.
Ramesh Babu reports.
Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday ordered a high-level probe into allegations that the state intelligence department was tracking the e-mails of leaders, activists, professionals and journalists from a minority community.
In an alleged case of ragging, two engineering students from Kerala studying in Tamil Nadu were brutally assaulted by their seniors on a Kerala-bound train on Friday night while their co-passengers looked on. HT reports.
Facing a vigilance case, CPI(M) veteran V S Achuthanandan today offered to resign as leader of the opposition in Kerala assembly, but the party central leadership rejected it.
A year after over 100 people died in a stampede after witnessing the Makara Jyothi, pilgrims in large numbers were stationed in and around Kerala's Sabarimala temple to witness Sunday evening the 'celestial light' that appears on the horizon on Makara Sankranthi.
Union science and technology minister Ashwani Kumar's statement that the 115-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe has not gone down well in Kerala with ruling front ally Kerala Congress (Mani) Monday announcing its support to a strike call by an anti-dam panel.
A rude shock awaited passengers of an Alliance Air flight when they found the pilot had landed in Kochi though they were told they had reached their destination Kozhikode.
Kerala on Thursday handed over the keys of its first metro project to E. Sreedharan. The Palakkad native, who helmed the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for 14 years, vowed to complete the Rs 5,000-crore project in three years.
Senior CPM leader VS Achuthanandan has landed in trouble for allegedly flouting rules to assign 2.33 acres of government land to his relatives in northern Kerala’s Kasarkkode district during his tenure as chief minister. HT reports.
The Kerala government on Wednesday suspended controversial IPS officer Tomin J Thachankery for taking an unauthorised trip to Qatar in 2010 and thus violating service rules. HT reports.
In a relief to Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy, a vigilance probe has found he had no role in the palmolein import corruption case in the early 1990s when he was finance minister in the then UDF ministry headed by late Congress veteran K Karunakaran.
Kerala high court on Tuesday disposed of a batch of petitions raising concern over safety of the Mullaperiyar Dam after some petitioners expressed satisfaction over measures taken by the state government.
The decision of Kerala's Congress-led UDF government to agree for joint control of the proposed new dam at Mullaperiyar seems to have jeopardised political consensus on the issue in the state with the opposition LDF coming out strongly against the proposal.
Technical experts on the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee on Mullaperiyar Dam issue today began their visit of dams in Idukki district and adjoining areas to provide inputs for the panel to draw up its report on the dispute between Kerala and Tamil Nadu.