CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government has stepped up the vigil in the border areas after more cases of bird flu were reported from neighbouring Kerala.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The three main political outfits Congress, Left and BJP in Kerala are claiming to win big in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the coastal state.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government has stepped up vigil across the border areas after bird flu was reported in Kerala.

BHUBANESWAR:  Diego Mauricio and Isak Vanlalruatfela scored a goal each as Odisha FC qualified for the semifinal of the Indian Super League (ISL) 2023-24 by beating Kerala Blasters FC 2-1 at the Kalinga Stadium here on Friday. Accordingly, the Juggernauts have won their first-ever ISL playoffs game and thus made it to the semifinal for the first time in the competition’s history.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: AICC general secretary and star campaigner of the party Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will arrive in Kerala on Saturday to address three election rallies and lead a road show in the state capital city.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed by a rape survivor seeking legal action against a magistrate in Kerala who inadvertently revealed her name in his order.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday orally asked the Election Commission (EC) to look into media reports suggesting that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) erroneously registered votes in favour of the BJP during mock polling in Kerala’s Kasaragod.

KOCHI: With top officials of mining company CMRL being questioned, the CPI(M) in Kerala on Wednesday appeared to have resigned itself to the fact that soon Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter Veena Vijayan would be asked to appear by the ED.

KERALA: Continuing his tirade against the BJP-led Government at the Centre, Wayanad’s sitting MP, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said during his massive road show at Thiruvembady that the Congress was trying to save the Indian Constitution.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Election campaigning has picked up in Kerala now after a slow start, as the leaders of the big three parties contesting in the state are taking on one another.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in Kerala and Tamil Nadu on Monday for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even before the poll dates were announced one thing was certain in Kerala, that the winner would be the INDIA bloc.

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday considered positively one of the demands of the victim in the alleged actress assault case of 2017.

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Thursday dismissed an election petition filed by former CPI(M) legislator M. Swaraj in 2021 demanding the disqualification of six-time Congress legislator K. Babu and declaring him as the winner.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala celebrated Eid-Ul-Fitr on Wednesday, as devout Muslims made a beeline to mosques and Eid Gahs at several places across the state.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With April 26, the date for voting in the Lok Sabha polls getting closer in Kerala, it is getting clearer by the day that the battle is primarily between key INDIA bloc partners the Congress-led UDF and the ruling CPI(M)-led Left, with the BJP-led NDA in for a triangular fight in two constituencies.

KOCHI:Kerala Leader of Opposition V. D. Satheesan, on Sunday, accused the ruling CPI-M of instilling fear among people by unleashing "bomb culture" ahead of Lok Sabha polls.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the temperatures continued to soar and the pre-monsoon showers, also known as 'mango showers', playing truant, the candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election have been forced to alter their campaign schedules.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday made it clear that the BJP should forget about winning in Kerala as it will not even finish second in any of the 20 Lok Sabha seats.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A 55-year-old British national on Friday drowned while surfing at the Varkala sea, near here.

KOCHI: In a jolt to the Pinarayi Vijayan government, the Kerala High Court on Friday through an interim order directed the Centre to issue the necessary orders for a CBI probe into the death of a second year BVSc student, Siddharth.

ITANAGAR: Three people from Kerala, including two women, were found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hotel at Ziro in Arunachal Pradesh's Lower Subansiri district on Tuesday, police officials said.

KERALA: In a scathing attack on his electoral opponent in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, Kerala BJP President, K Surendran on Tuesday asked sitting Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to explain the tie-up with SDPI, the political wing of the proscribed Popular Front of India (PFI).

KERALA: Kerala BJP President K. Surendran on Monday said that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is scared of Muslim leaders and that is why he is not visiting Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to pass any interim order in a suit filed by the Kerala government challenging the limits imposed by the Centre on the state’s borrowing.

KERALA: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday slammed Rahul Gandhi and the Congress a day after the INDIA bloc protest rally in Delhi where the latter shared the stage with CPI(M)'s General Secretary Sitaram Yechury.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The leader of opposition in the Kerala Assembly, V. D. Satheesan, wrote to Sanjay Kaul, Chief Electoral Officer, on Wednesday, urging him to ensure transparency in the 'vote from home' facility for voters above the age of 85.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala unit BJP president K. Surendran on Tuesday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi -- the sitting MP from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in the state, has cheated the voters of the constituency.

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday initiated suo motu proceedings after a two-year-old child was assaulted and killed by her father.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Reacting to BJP’s narrative that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will soon reach Kerala, the state's Minister of for Tourism and PWD, P. A. Mohammed Riyas said on Saturday: "Let them come."

KOCHI: Kerala High Court, on Friday, granted bail to former senior government pleader P. G. Manu.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: On Friday top political leaders of the CPI(M)-led Left and the Congress-led UDF took to the streets to protest the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the excise policy case on Thursday night.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kollam Lok Sabha seat in Kerala will see a fight between two-time sitting MP, who is aiming for a hat-trick and film star-turned-politician Mukesh.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Almost two years after the cold-blooded murder of a popular RSS functionary in Palakkad district, NIA, on Tuesday, took into custody a top PFI activist who was on the run.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A final year BDS student at a private dental college died after a boulder fell from a lorry and hit his two-wheeler, here on Tuesday.

THIRUVANANTHAPUR: The death of scriptwriter John Paul on Saturday in the absence of timely medical assistance at the time of his fall in January, has put the spotlight on the lackadaisical attitude of the health system of Kerala, otherwise rated as the best by NITI Aayog.

THIRUVANANTHAPUR: For the second successive day, angry protesters in Kannur were seen engaging in a war of words with police and K-Rail officials, when they tried to lay the marking stone for the social impact assessment study of the project.

Thiruvananthapuram: An elderly man on Wednesday hacked his wife to death and hanged himself, police said.

THIRUVANANTHAPUR: An elderly man on Wednesday hacked his wife to death and hanged himself, police said.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government in Kerala on Wednesday gave its nod for a hike in auto, taxi and bus fares, which will come into effect from from May 1.

GOA: Kerala Blasters FC will have experience on their side when they take on Mumbai City FC in a second-round match at the inaugural Reliance Foundation Development League (RFDL) at the Nagoa Ground on Wednesday.

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed actor Dileep's petition to either quash the FIR against him or hand over the 'conspiracy' case to the CBI.

NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry on Monday wrote a letter to the Kerala government for not updating the Covid data on daily basis.

THIRUVANANTHAPUR: Chittayem Gopakumar, the deputy speaker of the Kerala Assembly has expressed his displeasure at the CPI-M after his photo was removed from a picture of a function that took place in the Kerala Assembly on Ambedkar birth anniversary.

Thiruvananthapuram: It is after several years that the festival of harvest Vishu in Kerala has fallen on a day when the Christians are observing Good Friday, while the Muslims are in the midst of their Ramadan fast.

Thiruvananthapuram: A top Kerala bureaucrat who was moved out from a key post after he wrote a letter to Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan which angered him and he went to the extent of refusing to sign the Governor's address, was brought back on Tuesday.

CHENNAI: The Crime Branch-CID of the Tamil Nadu police, which is probing the illegal sand mining at Kallidaikuruchi in Tirunelveli district, has extended its probe to Kerala.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPI-M legislator and trade union leader P.P. Chitharanjan said he was shocked to get a hefty bill from a local restaurant at his home district-Alappuzha where he had breakfast.

Thiruvananthapuram: Five Rajya Sabha members from Kerala are set to retire on completion of their terms by July.

NEW DELHI:Pointing out the economic, social and environmental impacts of the proposed K-Rail Silver Line Corridor, the ambitious Rs 63,941 crore project of the ruling CPI-M in Kerala, former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state convener and environmental activist C.R. Neelakandan on Sunday said the project is a non-starter in the southern state.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala on Saturday recorded 496 new Covid cases while the test positivity rate was 2.94 per cent, said Health Minister Veena George.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Kerala on Friday logged 543 new Covid cases while the test positivity rate was 3.05 per cent, Health Minister Veena George said in a statement.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved the order on a Centre's plea to undertake a sample scrutiny of Covid death compensation applications to identify cases where fake documents were used. Also, on the aspect of fixing a time limit for filing Covid death claim application, the bench noted that it said it may give 60 days' time for filing claims for the persons who have already died due to Covid, and for future deaths, it could give 90 days' time.

FATORDA(Goa): Hyderabad FC and Kerala Blasters FC donning similar yellow colours, will look to claim the 2021-22 Indian Super League (ISL) trophy, when the two teams lock horns in the final at the PJN Stadium, here on Sunday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala on Saturday recorded 719 new Covid cases, one of the lowest in several months, so was the test positivity rate which was 3.55 per cent, said a statement from Health Minister Veena George.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Congress has nominated Jeby Mather from the minority community as its Rajya Sabha member from the state.

KOCHI:Four migrant workers from West Bengal were killed after a big chunk of earth caved in on them at a construction site near here on Friday afternoon.

KOCHI:Three youths were arrested while carrying hash oil worth Rs 2.25 crore in the wee hours of Wednesday on Kerala's Thrissur-Kochi national highway.

KOCHI:While the CPI-M may appear to be stagnant in states like West Bengal and Tripura, according to Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the party's secretary in Kerala, things are different in the southern state where it has witnessed a rise in membership with the motto to make the Red outfit the party of majority.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Trouble breaks out in the Congress' Kerala unit every now and then, and after a lull, a rift has developed again with letters and emails being sent to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi complaining against state President K. Sudhakaran and the way he is operating.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The Covid pandemic's third wave seems to be in its last stages in Kerala, as on Friday, the state saw 3,581 new cases, while the test positivity rate stood at 8.12 per cent, said a statement issued here by Health Minister Veena George.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala continues to breathe easy as the daily Covid tally and the test positivity rate (TPR) continue to fall, with the state seeing 5,023 new cases on Wednesday and TPR was 8.15 per cent, Health Minister Veena George said in a statement.

Thiruvananthapuram: Four members of a family, including father, mother, and two children were found dead in a house at Kodungallur in Kerala's Thrissur district on Sunday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Kerala's first woman IPS officer, R. Sreelekha, who retired on Saturday, said that women police officers in the state face a tough time while on duty.

Thiruvananthapuram: After two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Contract Carriage Owners Association (CCOA) is in dire straits and the news on Saturday is a grieving bus owner in Kochi making his intentions very clear by deciding to sell his remaining 10 luxury buses at Rs 45 for a kilo.

Thiruvananthapuram: Sreelekshmi, the wife of Junior Warrant Officer A. Pradip -- one of the victims of the December 8, 2021 IAF helicopter crash that also killed India's first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat and other defence officials, on Monday joined her duties as a Clerk at Taluk office in Kerala's Trissur, Revenue Minister K Rajan said.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The daily Covid tally in Kerala has started to come down with 38,684 turning positive, while the test positivity rate also dipped down to 32.10 per cent, Health Minister Veena George said in a statement on Friday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala heaved a sigh of relief on Thursday when the daily Covid cases fell below the 50,000 mark as 42,677 people turned positive for the coronavirus and the test positivity rate was 37.23 per cent, said a statement from State Health Minister Veena George.

BENGALURU: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed charge sheet against eight accused persons including Deepthi Marla a.k.a Maryam, grand-daughter-in-law of Late Karnataka Congress MLA B.M. Idinabba in ISIS Kerala Module case. The accused were involved in radicalizing Muslim youth and recruiting them for terrorist organization ISIS, NIA sources said on Wednesday.

KOCHI: There were anxious moments for actor Dileep in a special sitting of the Kerala High Court on Saturday and at the end of the hearing, the court speaking tough, asked the actor and his aides to handover six mobile phones to the Crime Branch police probe team. The Crime Branch is probing the fresh case in which the actor is alleged to have conspired to do away with the investigating officers in the actress abduction case.

BENGALURU: Taking serious note over media reports about neighbouring Kerala state renaming some of its villages on bordering areas, Karnataka Chief Minister, B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday said that he would write to his counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan, appealing him not to rename villages situated on bordering areas.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The car believed to be used by airport gold smuggling suspect Arjun Ayanki was found hidden behind bushes on a hillock opposite the Pariyaram Medical College hospital in Kerala's Kannur district, police said on Sunday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:  Crucial days are ahead for Kerala Education Minister V. Sivankutty, as the Kerala Government has approached the Supreme Court seeking a reversal of the High Court decision which dismissed a plea for withdrawal of a case registered against six Left legislators in 2015 for indulging in vandalism in the assembly.

KOCHI: In a setback to the Lakshadweep administration, the Kerala High Court on Tuesday stayed two controversial orders issued by the island administration.

THIRUVANTHANAMPURAM: Senior Kerala political leader C.P. John on Tuesday said that he will go on a 24-hour hunger strike from Wednesday to demand the setting up of a Covid Disaster Management Commission.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After battling for her life for over a month, the 22-year-old Nadeera, a victim of callousness at Kerala's premier cancer institute -- Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), here, passed away in the wee hours of Thursday at the Medical College Hospital.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Assembly on Monday passed a unanimous resolution asking the Centre to see that the traditions and culture of Lakshadweep island inhabitants are protected and immediately withdraw the island administrator Praful Patel, who has tried to implement new laws, that could destroy the peace and tranquillity there.

Thiruvananthapuram: A former journalist with leading Malayalam news channels has alleged that she and her family were targeted by the CPI-M "cyberbullies" and her policeman husband was subjected to "moral policing".

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday said that it has deferred the bypoll for a Rajya Sabha seat in Kerala due to the Covid situation.

KOCHI: With the Congress led UDF and the ruling CPI-M led Left in Kerala up in arms over the happenings in Lakshadweep on the actions of the new Administrator of the Union Territory, Praful Patel, the Kerala High Court on Tuesday also came down heavily on the way things are going on there.

KOCHI: The two arrested -- Firoz Khan and Sathaar by the local police here, have been remanded to two weeks judicial custody for their involvement in an alleged fraudulent recruitment scam, which left several nurses from the state languishing in the UAE.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Mahila Congress' former chief, Lathika Subhash, who tonsured her head in the premises of the state party headquarters after being denied ticket to contest the April 6 elections, on Sunday said that she is all set to join the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

DUBAI: Healthcare groups in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have offered work to nurses from Kerala who have been stranded in the country due to Covid job scams, according to a news report.

THIRUVNANTHAPURAM: The 140 newly-elected Kerala legislators will take oath on Friday to officially enter the 15th Legislative Assembly of the southern state.

THIRUVANANATHAPURAM: The social media is abuzz with hectic activity after hearing that V. Sivankutty will be the new Education Minister of Kerala and trolls are coming thick and fast.

THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The mortal remains of Kerala's Soumya Santhosh, who was was killed on Tuesday in a rocket attack in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, where she has been working as a caregiver, will be brought to her home, said relatives and authorities.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A journalist in Kerala who had tested positive for the Covid-19 has died after developing coronavirus-related complications.Vipin Chand, 42, passed away on Sunday following a massive heart attack. He is survived by his wife Sreedevi and son Maheshwar.

THIRUVALLA(Kerala): Dr Philipose Mar Chrysostom, the senior-most metropolitan of the Thiruvalla headquartered Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, passed away at a private hospital, near here early Wednesday, said Church officials.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan scripting a new political history in Kerala by becoming the first sitting government to retain power, all eyes are on the badly hit Congress, which leads the United Democratic Front, as never before has such a thing happened in the state.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 87-year-old R. Balakrishna Pillai, one of Kerala's stalwart politician breathed his last at a hospital at Kottarakara on Monday, said family sources.

BENGALURU: Buoyed by the victory of the Congress and the DMK alliance in Tamil Nadu, and Trinamool Congress retaining power in West Bengal, Karnataka leader of the opposition, Siddaramaiah on Sunday described these election results as 'a new game' in the country.

NEW DELHI: The Congress put up a dismal show in all the states/UT where Assembly elections were held barring in Tamil Nadu, where the DMK-Congress alliance is poised to return to power after a gap of 10 years.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 64-year-old K.K. Shailaja, on Sunday created history by going forward to secure the highest margin of victory in an assembly election when her margin crossed 60,000 votes.

NEW DELHI: In the early trends, the Congress is losing high stakes battle in the five states, but the real surprise is Kerala where the party is set to lose the state and the LDF is winning second time in a row to create history.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Even though counting of votes for the 140-member Kerala Assembly will begin at sharp 8 a.m on Sunday, the final results could well be delayed till early evening.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala government on Friday slashed the price of RT-PCR tests to Rs 500 from Rs 1,700 at all private laboratories in the state, according to a government notification.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Finally on Wednesday, the Kerala government decided to place an order for one crore doses of Covid vaccines.
It would include 70 lakhs doses of Covishield and 30 lakhs Covaxin.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Even as Kerala's daily Covid positive cases are crossing the 28,000 mark, an all-party meeting held here on Monday to discuss this serious issue of widespread surge, however, ruled out the need for a total lockdown.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With May 2 fast approaching, when votes will be counted in Kerala, it's all happening as the rival factions have in all earnestness started to do what they know best to rally behind two times former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and present Leader of Opposition and former Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala.

KOCHI: The Kerala Police has finally taken Sanu Mohan into custody, who disappeared on March 21 along with his 13-year-old daughter, from here.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala unit of the CPI-M on Saturday sought the immediate intervention of the Prime Minister and the national leadership of the BJP to reign in Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan for his curt remarks and frequent attacks on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The unexpected resignation of Kerala Higher Education Minister K.T. Jaleel, often known as the blue eyed boy of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan shows that all's not well in the CPI-M in Kerala.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Kerala Assembly Speaker and senior CPI-M leader P. Sreeramakrishnan for the second time will not appear before the Customs Department at their Kochi office on Thursday, after claiming to be 'unwell'.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:At sharp 7 a.m on Wednesday, polling got underway to elect a new 140-member Kerala Legislative Assembly.
The fate of 957 candidates would be decided by an electorate of 1,41,62,025 women, 1,32,83,724 men and 290 transgender voters.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-led NDA in Kerala is gaining ground and the April 6 assembly polls is going to be a game changer as there is a triangular fight on 20 seats, a top BJP leader said.