New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe into the role of Kerala police officers in framing ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan in the 1994 ISRO espionage case. A bench headed by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar accepted the report of a panel headed by former top court judge D.K. Jain, and asked the CBI […]
Thiruvananthapuram: A total of 8,778 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Kerala on Wednesday. The test positivity rate was recorded at 13.45 percent. The district-wise statistics of positive cases: Ernakulam – 1,226, Kozhikode – 1,098, Malappuram – 888, Kottayam – 816, Kannur – 748, Thiruvananthapuram – 666, Thrissur – 544, Alappuzha – 481, Palakkad – […]
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams for Class 10 have been cancelled and the exams for Class 12 postponed in view of the exponential spike in Covid-19 cases across the country, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced on Wednesday.The decision was taken in a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister […]
Kochi: The state government is trying to defend CM and the government from the impacts of Lokayukta order which resulted in minister KT Jaleel’s resignation. In the legal advice to the government, the Advocate General recommended filing a writ petition against the Lokayukta order. The government issued the appointment order of KT Adeeb, a kin […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Minister K T Jaleel resigned following the controversies regarding the nepotism case. He handed over the resignation letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan a while ago. The minister resigned while the High Court was considering the petition filed against the Lokayukta order that he is not eligible to continue in the minister post. Jaleel […]
Mangaluru/Kozhikode: Three persons were killed after a ship collided with a fishing boat off the coast of Mangaluru on Tuesday. Nine people went missing following the accident. Two were rescued by the Coast Guard and others. Bengal native Sunil Das (34) and Tamil Nadu native Velmurugan (37) were rescued from the sea. A fishing boat […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) on Monday declared that polls to the three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala falling vacant later this month will be held on April 30. The poll panel issued a detailed press note for “conduct of biennial election to the council of states from Kerala to fill the seats of […]
Kolkata: Unsatisfied with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s responses to the two notices of the Election Commission, the poll panel on Monday barred the Trinamool Congress supremo from any kind of campaigning for 24 hours, from 8 pm on Monday to 8 pm on Tuesday. The Commission had sent notices to Banerjee for her […]
Thiruvananthapuram: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rains in Kerala for the next five days and has issued yellow alert in six districts — Idukki, Thrissur, Malappuram, Palakkad, Kozhikode and Wayanad. The IMD also issued another alert on thunderstorm and rain. “Thunderstorm with light to moderate rainfall and gusty winds with speed reaching […]
India registered a record single-day spike of 1,31,968 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, pushing its infection tally to 1,30,60,542, while the death toll increased to 1,67,642 with 780 more fatalities in a day, highest since October 18, the Union Health Ministry data showed. Registering a steady increase for the 30th day in a row, the […]