The week-long tipper-cum-JCB strike has taken a toll on the construction sector in the city with the transportation of raw material like sand and boulders turning out to be a big problem.

Even the pr

Minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office V. Narayanasamy has landed in a piquant situation with India’s premier news agency, PTI, rejecting his claim that it had misquoted him saying the gover

Despite the onset of a busy tourist season, Fort Kochi beach, one of the top tourist destinations in the state and the areas nearby, are littered with filth and sea weeds. The beach is losing its char

In order to maintain an acceptable teacher-student ratio in state run schools, chief minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday ordered creati­on of 1,591 post graduate te­acher posts in state government and mun

For Andrews Kalathilparambil, the councilor of Maradu Municipality, being in power does not mean he should quit his traditional family occupation of carpentry. On days when the councillor gets free ti

“Beauty sells“, Maria Sharapova had once famously remarked, an ironic statement from someone who evokes a sense of awe and admiration both for her tennis and drop-dead gorgeous looks.

At 25, she pres

The Special Investigation Team that probes the political murders in Idukki has decided to conduct polygraph tests on CPM Idukki leader M.M. Mani and thr-ee other CPM leaders, with special reference to

‘The Ernakulam central police on Saturday arrested the chief executive officer and human resource manager of ShadWell’s, a prominent education management company that operates in Infopark, on charges

A large number of Indian students join engineering and management progr­ammes in US un­i­versities and colleges, but varsity administrators say that students from the country have started to lo­ok at

The Centre on Saturday stated that investigations are in progress with the tax authorities of other countries against those who have stashed black money abroad to obtain more information regarding the