The agriculture department in Kerala has gifted Sony Bravia 22-inch LCD TVs — each costing about Rs.16,000 if purchased singly — to all 141 MLAs of Kerala, while the state is in the grip of severe drought, HT reports.
Renowned filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan will be honoured by the Chicago university.
The Crime Branch would probe the case relating to the arrest of a 75-year-old man with an airgun and sword near the residence of CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in Kannur district on Thursday, official sources said.
Domestic violence, melodrama, politics and dirty picture – a heady brew held Kerala enthralled on All Fool’s Day. But the plot was anything but foolish.

Kerala forest minister KB Ganesh Kumar resigned from the 2-yr-old Oommen Chandy govt late on Monday night after his wife filed a complaint against him alleging physical assault and mental torture.
HT reports.

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy has urged the Central Government to set up the special court at Kollam district to conduct the trial of the two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen.

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy today asked the Centre to set up the special court at Kollam district to conduct the trial of the two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said Italy's stand on the return of two of its marines to India to face the trial for killing two Indian fishermen has violated all norms of diplomatic discourse.
The Congress-led UDF government in Kerala on Friday announced its decision to raise the retirement age of all its employees who join service from next fiscal, to 60.
The State Bank of Travancore has suspended 'Raghav Rajan', the probationary officer working with them and said to be Bitti Mohanty, convicted in the 2006 German woman rape case and now in police custody, seven years after he jumped parole.
Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday said Italy’s decision not to send back two marines, accused of killing two Indian fishermen, to face trial in India as most unfortunate.
The two Italian marines who had fatally shot two Indian fishermen must be brought back to India to stand trial, demanded the wife of one of the two fishermen who were killed.
From a fictitious farmer father to forged school certificates, Bitihotra Mohanty alias 'Bitti' had thought his story through.
The tall, well-dressed and handsome probationary officer, Raghav Raj, was, to them, anything but what Bitihotra Mohanty alias 'Bitti' could be - a rapist.
Ramesh Babu reports.
The Central Administrative Tribunal on Friday dismissed former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair’s plea seeking quashing of the Centre’s decision to debar him from holding top government posts for his alleged role in the controversial Antrix-Devas deal.