‘Refugees would have perished mid-way’
The 84 people, majority of who were Sri Lankan refugees from various camps in Tamil Nadu, rescued on September 8 by the Mangalore police from being smuggled to Australia would have died mid-way, said
Traffic curbs in city for two days
Kochi city will have several traffic regulations on Wednesday and Thursday in connection with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to inaugurate the Emerging Kerala meet and lay the foundation stone
Another threat to Yuvraj Singh ’s return
A lush outfield swathed in polythene is not good advertisement for cricket, barring that everything else was picture perfect at the MAC Stadium.
The skies opened up briefly in the evening to add to
Consumers to get inflated power bills
The Central discom has not refunded Fuel Surcharge Adjustment charges collected in the month of July, despite a High Court order. Meanwhile, the final hearing for FSA claims for the year 2010-11 is to
Cauvery on the boil again
With farmers in the Cauvery basin threatening to begin protests on Tuesday against the release of 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu, the state government has convened an urgent meeting with leade
Metro handover not too soon
The crucial meeting of the reconstituted board of Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) on Tuesday is unlikely to discuss the draft agreement for officially handing over the `5182 metro project to Delhi Metro R
Retired cops use orderlies
While the Police department claims that it had abolished the orderly system in 1979 through a government order, a reply to an RTI enquiry has revealed that even retired senior officials still enjoy th
Relative kidnapped Doctor Sreeharsha
Dr Sreeharsha Reddy was kidnapped for money by a relative. One of the abductors Y. Srinivas Reddy, 38, who had hatched the plan to kidnap the doctor a month and a half ago to extort money from the do
No deadline for T, Kiran stays: Azad
All-India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad clarified on Sunday that the Centre had not fixed any deadline for taking a decision on the state bifurcation
Politburo wary of CBI probe
The CPM politburo on Sunday opposed the demand to hand over the TPC murder probe to the CBI, a request made by TPC’s wife K.K. Rema that has been backed by Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan.
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