Former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan has asked the income tax office in Kochi not to disclose details of his I-T returns — sought by an activist for the period when he was a Supreme Court judge and later CJI — under the RTI Act.
Ramesh Babu reports.
The Congress today distanced itself from party MP K Sudhakaran’s remark that a Supreme Court judge took
Rs. 36 lakh as bribe to lift the Kerala High Court ban on 21 bar hotels in the state.
The Kerala assembly today passed a resolution alleging that chief minister V S Achuthanandan and his ministers were slighted during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-day visit to the state in February.
HT reports.
A 14-year-old 'ice-cream parlour sex scandal' is giving two key stakeholders in Kerala politics the chills, three months before assembly elections.
A major judicial hurdle has been removed for setting up the country’s first Islamic bank, which is based on the principle of profit sharing rather than charging interest.
The proceedings in the Kerala Assembly were disrupted during the zero hour on Tuesday with the ruling LDF and the Congress-led UDF opposition members trading charges over the "icecream parlour" sex scandal case, which is back in focus.
Of the four states going to polls this year, the Congress' position is strongest in Kerala. So it is only appropriate that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the state from February 10 to 12 will mark the beginning of the United Democratic Front's campaign to wrest power from the Left Democratic Front.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took on the Left on its turf in Kerala on Friday, asking the Left Democratic Front government to make the state an investor-friendly destination and accelerate the pace of economic reforms.
Describing journalists as the "conscience keepers" of society, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said they could become agents of change if they were true to their profession.
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said India and China were the only large nations which did not witness negative growth and showed high positive growth during the period of global recession.
Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps to remove the hurdles before the proposed metro rail project at Kochi.
Amid outcry over the S-Band spectrum deal between ISRO's commercial arm Antrix Corporation and a private company, the space agency's former chairman G Madhavan Nair today said a high-powered committee set up by the Centre was probing the issue.
A Congress MP from Kerala has made a sensational statement, claiming he had in 1996 seen a Supreme Court judge accept a bribe of Rs. 21 lakh to revoke a Kerala high court verdict. HT reports.
Even as a debate is raging on the management of the annual Sabarimala pilgrimage in the wake of the deadly stampede, a pictorial report prepared by eminent architect, late Laurie Baker, on creating essential amenities for devotees without harming nature has been gathering dust for the past 15 years.
The condition of ailing Congress leader, K Karunakaran, turned critical today and he was put on ventilator support at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.