: An 82-year-old man from Kerala became the oldest liver donor in south India, officials said on Tuesday. The donor, Vikraman, was declared brain dead after an accident late last month. The cadaveric liver transplant took place at the Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences. The recipient was a 44-year-old man from Kollam, who is now […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Amid reports that Marxist veteran VS Achuthanandan is set to be appointed Chairman of Kerala Administrative Reforms Commission, the LDF government today decided to amend the relevant law to confer him the post with Cabinet rank. A draft bill to amend the law related to the commission was approved by the state Cabinet which […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed former Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan’s petition demanding a CBI probe into the Kozhikode ice-cream parlour sex case. The alleged sex racket in the early 1990s involved an ice cream parlour in Kozhikode in Kerala and was flagged as “ice-cream parlour sex case” by the media. Several […]
Thiruvananthapuram: A top bureaucrat in Kerala has apologised on social media after a public spat with a Congress MP. Kozhikode Collector Prasanth Nair – a social-media savvy officer popular as ‘collector bro’ among his online fans – and lawmaker MK Raghavan fought very publicly for days. It started when Mr Raghavan accused the officer of […]
Kochi: The Syro Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala on Sunday welcomed the Narendra Modi government’s pitch for a Uniform Civil Code in the country. Addressing reporters here, Cardinal Maran Mar George Alencherry said that he welcomes the decision of the central government to go ahead with it. “This should take place through discussions and a […]
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Wednesday said the main objectives of Kerala’s water policy were to ‘adopt integrated multi-sectoral approach for planning, development and management of water resources’ and to integrate problems and prospects of water resource systems by considering river basin as the basic unit. Growing demand for adequate supply of fresh water requires management […]
At a time when animal buffs are concerned about plastic articles being abandoned in forests, a 40-year-old female elephant was found dead with about two kg of plastic waste in its bowels in a forest near the holy hill Sabarimala in Pathanamthitta district recently. The plastic articles consumed by the jumbo was believed to […]
Union Home Minister Mullappally Ramachandran has said there are no legal hurdles in ordering a CBI probe into the murder of TP Chandrasekharan. Mullappally said the State government should clarify why the case did not hand over to the CBI. Ramesh Chennithala had visited the residence of slain RMP leader TP Chandrasekharan and ensured a […]
K K Rema, wife of RMP leader T P Chandrasekhran, who was hacked to death in 2012, began an indefinite fast in front of the secretariat here today, demanding a CBI probe into the conspiracy of her husband’s murder. Citing the recent judgement that awarded life imprisonment to 11 accused in the case, including three […]
With just days left for the time for appeal to end, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday filed a review petition in the SNC Lavalin case in which CPI-M state secretary Pinnarayi Vijayan was discharged by a CBI court. On Nov 5 last year, CBI special court judge R. Reghu termed the investigation agency’s […]