The Kerala CPM’s latest foray into the world of art has ruffled the feathers of political commentators and art critics alike. And Christians are particularly upset — with good reason.
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A mother, a son given up for dead, a promise of reunion two decades later - Sarala Kumari's story had the makings of a Bollywood potboiler, but from then on the script went awry.
An all-party meeting to discuss the Mullaperiyar Dam row is underway in the state capital even as the situation was today normal in Kumali town on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, where prohibitory orders are in force after incidents of stoning of vehicles.
Two aircraft with 395 passengers onboard narrowly escaped a mid-air collision as one of them landed within a minute after the other took off on the same runway at the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday.
The war of words between Kerala and Tamil Nadu over the Mullaperiyar dam is slowly moving into the zone of advertisements. In Tamil Nadu, it has goaded chief minister and AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa to announce a special assembly session on the dam. HT reports.
Noting that Air India is passing through a deep crisis with its total debt touching a whopping Rs 43,000 crore, Government on Friday expressed confidence that it would be able to wipe out the debts with active cooperation of management and employees.
Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy on Sunday voiced concern over reports of attacks on Keralites in Tamil Nadu over the Mullaperiyar dam row and requested his counterpart Jayalalithaa "to take firm action to contain the situation."
After strong protest against his remarks on Mullaiperiyar dam issue, home minister P Chidambaram on Sunday wrote to Kerala Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala saying he did not want to hurt anyone.
Listing his major achievements in the last two years as member of Lok Sabha in a `half-term report,' Shashi Tharoor today said he was not disappointed with his work, but had learnt lessons in politics and got rid of illusions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vigilance police in Kerala will file an FIR in a Kozhikode court on Friday against CPI-M veteran VS Achuthanandan over alleged irregularities in assigning land to a relative when he was chief minister.
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.