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ACE chess begins today

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For years a group of passionate chess players has been spending their weekends, sharing knowledge and challenging each other, at the Anandapradayini Library near the KSRTC Stand in Alappuzha.

These d

State to save cops from violent stirs

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The UDF is one step closer to amending a landmark law to save police officials and their kin from the violence unleashed by agitating political parties during hartals and other protests.

The draft pr

Docs oppose state bid to fix charges

Doctors in the private sector are up in arms against the state government’s move to adopt the centre’s Clinical Establishment Act 2010, or to enact a law along similar lines which gives it more contro

Coconut oil export order fails to cheer industry

The central government’s decision to allow export of 20,000 tonnes of coconut oil in branded packs of upto 5 kg does not bring cheer to the oil industry here, which has been reeling under a price fall

HC notice to Lissy as father seeks maintenance

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The legal tussle between actor Lissy Priyadarsan and her father about monthly maintenance took a new turn with Kerala high court issuing notices, after the father sought maintenance from Lissy.

Lissy

Partnering agencies need to be quicker

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‘Well begun is half done’ may well betoken the Metro authorities’ concerns at the moment as they have urged their partner agencies to hasten completion of the key projects proposed to decongest the ci

‘Is minority a single community?’

The Laity Commission of the Syro-Malabar Church has complained that welfare programmes meant for minorities in the 12th Five Year Plan were appropriated for Muslims alone.

In an article in the Octobe

High Court chides state, minister over toddy row

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The Kerala high court on Thursday took the state government to task for not taking any strong action to curb the sale of spurious toddy.

The court, which said it was not against the sale of natural t

LPG shortage worsens

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The LPG crisis in Kochi has gone from bad to worse as the number of pending advance bookings in the past two months has gone up to almost 70,000, according to unofficial statistics from LPG agencies h

Builder arrested for Rs 5 cr fraud

The Ernakulam central police on Thursday arrested a man for swindling Rs 5 crore from several people after offering them apartments on GCDA’s land in Gandhi Nagar near Elamkulam.

The arrested was id

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.