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Tremors at Shengottai fuel anti-KKNPP protests

The mild tremors experienced twice on Sunday in Shengottai at the foothills of the Western Ghats located around 125 km from Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district further fuelled the anti-KKNPP agitation.

UK citizen can meet son in Kollam, HC rules

Giving a breather to a UK-based ad film director who is in Kochi for the last four years, the Kerala high court on Monday permitted him to spend an hour with his one-year-old son who is detained by hi

Everyone can change, prisoners too: Aida

Philanthropy is greatest when it comes from the heart. Aida Margaret D’Cunha is now the chairperson of the Federation of Konkan Catholic Association, the vice president of Abhay, an NGO working toward

City projects fail to soar as Kerala ‘emerges’

The just-concluded high voltage Emerging Kerala, aimed at big time state development, could not, however, address some of the vital issues which Kochi very badly needed.

The sewage treatment plant pr

DMDK to join bandh, says captain

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DMDK founder president and Leader of Opposition Vijayakanth on Sunday said that the Centre’s decision to allow the foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail trade would affect the small traders.

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Kothari plans petrochemical project

Emerging Kerala over, investors have started evincing interest, and prominent among them is Kothari Petrochem-icals which proposes to set up a plant near Kochi Refineries.

Another player, Binani Zin

Naxals on run beg villagers for food

Naxals apparently on the run from the Anti-Naxal Force in the Bisle forest have been begging villagers in the area for food. Meenakshi Gowda and her sister were woken up by a Naxal group on Friday ni

Kochi to soon emerge as entertainment hub

Entertainment may not have been a key part of Emerging Kerala, but the lone proposal in the conclave related to the sector is emerging from the shadows to take the shape of a society that will set the

Agitators take to water for fuel price cut

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More than 200 mechanised boat fishermen on Sunday staged jal satyagraha in Rameswaram wearing black headbands and waving black flags protesting against the recent diesel price hike and demanded that i

Remark made in jest, says Shinde

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Union home minister Sushilkumar Shine, who on Saturday claimed that people would forget the coal scam just like they had forgotten the Bofors scam, was on Sunday forced to clarify that his comments we

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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.

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