Category: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

Doctors at a government medical health centre in Thiruvananthapuram have held that the accused in the murder of Kerala woman doctor, Dr. Vandana Das, has no mental issues.

The Solar scam that jeopardised the political career of the then Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, appears to have claimed its first victim with the former probe official in the case found dead near a railway track near Kayamkulam in Alappuzha district early Saturday.

As part of his two-day trip to Kerala, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Christian religious heads in Kochi on Monday evening. The meeting, according to the sources, will take place at around 7 p.m.

Sixteen days after 27-year-old Delhi youth, Shahrukh Saifi, set ablaze passengers on a train bound for Kannur, on Monday the head of the special investigation team of the Kerala Police said the youth was "a highly radicalised personality".

Even as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was applauding the Kerala Police for apprehending Shahrukh Saifi, who allegedly set ablaze passengers on a moving train, the team that brought him from Maharashtra's Ratnagiri has come under fire for weak security compliance.

Three days after a man set ablaze passengers on a moving train, a special team of the Kerala Police with the help of Maharashtra Police is reported to have taken him into custody, sources said on Wednesday.

Various agencies, including the NIA, Railway Police and different wings of the Kerala Police are now on the prowl to nab the suspect who set his co-passengers on fire inside a moving Kannur-bound train.

The Kerala Police, which on Monday first released the picture of the suspect who ignited a blaze inside a moving Kannur-bound train on Sunday night, leading to several fatalities, has now identified him as Noida resident Shahrukh Saif, sources said.

The release of the picture of the suspect was made from CCTV footage that was recorded around 11.30 p.m. on Sunday night, two hours after he set ablaze the passengers on the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express.

It's been a year since this case has been waiting for the verdict and it was only after the petitioner approached the Kerala High Court last week seeking its intervention that things have now speeded up.

A bus with 62 pilgrims from Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur returning from the famed Sabarimala temple overturned on Tuesday after it lost control, authorities said here, adding that all the passengers were rescued.

In a strongly-worded statement following Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as MP, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday condemned the action of the Sangh Parivar forces which acted against the Congress leader to put silence those who speak against them.

Lakshwadeep's "former" MP, Mohammed Faizal of Nationalist Congress Party, on Friday questioned the treatment of opposition parliamentarians are being handled, saying that how the Narendra Modi government does things is "rather strange".

The Thalassery Arch Bishop of the Roman Catholic church, Mar Joseph Pamplani has said that if the Government of India raises the price of rubber to Rs 300 per kilogram, the church will help the BJP in Kerala and will overcome the situation of the BJP not having an MP from the state.

The opposition has been upset ever since Shamseer took over as the Speaker who has been particularly tough by dismissing the genuine Assembly protocols of the opposition, especially when they give notices on various issues.

Caught on the wrong foot over the ownership of a plush ayurveda resort at Kannur, veteran CPI(M) leader and Convenor of the ruling Left Democratic Front E.P.Jayarajan's wife and son are mulling to exit the company by selling their stakes.

The CPI(M) has been targeting the Asianet News ever since the Pinarayi Vijayan government came to power for the second consecutive time. The popular news channel of the state has been relentlessly exposing the failures of the government of the day.

An audio clip of a local body member of CPI-M's Kerala unit surfaced on Saturday in which she can be heard telling the MGNREGA workers in her ward to take part in the party's yatra when it arrives at their location, failing which they will not easily get next work.

Biju Kurien (42), from Iritti in Kannur district was part of a delegation of 27 farmers led by state agriculture secretary B. Ashok, reportedly contacted his wife and informed her that he was safe and to look for him.

Congress MP from Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi, told a public meeting at his constituency on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the last person he would be scared of.

As part of the agreement between the Kerala government and Adani Ports, the former will now have to give Rs 400 crore to the latter as the construction of the breakwater at the upcoming Vizhinjam port is going forward.

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Sudhakaran was responding to a question whether his party will call for a day-long shutdown in the state to protest the Rs 2 cess on petrol and diesel imposed in the budget announced on Friday by Finance Minister K.N.Balagopal.

Working in Poland for the past five months as a supervisor in a private firm, Suraj, 23, from Ollur (Thrissur), was stabbed to death by a group of Georgians following an altercation. Four youths from Kerala who were with Suraj were also injured during the attack.

State BJP president K. Surendran has now written to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan that under no circumstance should the documentary be shown as it is an insult to democracy and also the judiciary.

In the wake of the entire Congress top brass in Kerala joining hands to take on Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, the party leadership on Monday directed all leaders, including Tharoor, to maintain decorum.