Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he congratulated his friend T M Thomas Issac for, what he sarcastically said, taking over as "Finance Minister of Somalia".
'Let's not hold his past against him. Let's see what he does as prime minister.'
Thomas Isaac has been in and out of the national news in his role as Kerala's finance minister since 2018 for various path-breaking tax initiatives. But it is 2020 that he has become more prominent, principally in the GST council.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan directed the police to conduct a "robust" probe Following the incident at the Asianet News office.
Around 2 lakh ducks will be killed in the Kuttanad area.
The disease was prevalent in the coastal belt of Alappuzha and Kollam districts of Kerala, which are the major coir producing areas in the state.
Her days in the isolation ward no longer haunts India's first COVID-19 patient in Kerala and the 20-year old medico who has fully recovered is now busy attending online classes from her university in Wuhan in China as she completed three months since being diagnosed with the disease.
Gandhi also said that he was in favour of accepting foreign aid from countries like the UAE for rebuilding the flood-ravaged southern state.
GoAir is offering special packages for the Nehru Trophy Boat Race to be held at\nAlappuzha Punnamada Lake on August 12.
Kerala has not yet recieved any details of the package announced by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss for prevention of diseases like chikungunya, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said on Tuesday.
The opposition walked out of the Assembly over the matter.
Gale-force winds, heavy rainfall and high tidal waves swept the coastal belt of Kerala, Karnataka and Goa as Cyclone Tauktae hurtled northwards towards Gujarat on Sunday, leaving four people dead in Karnataka and two in Goa, damaging hundreds of houses, uprooting electricity poles and trees and forcing evacuation.
The government has set up a control room to coordinate the cleaning process across the state and the civic bodies have been entrusted with the task of managing the work, official sources said on Thursday.
Maniappan was kidnapped on Sunday along with three Afghans from the site of a highway construction project they were working at.
Kutty's wife, two children and aged parents have been in prayers since they come to know two days back about the kidnapping of Kutty.
This takes the death toll in Kerala from the disease to 86.
Kutten and Priyanka of Valiyazheekal in Alappuzha district named their child Tsunami following her miraculous escape from the killer waves.
The outgoing Lok Sabha had 23 Muslim MPs, the most being from Congress and TMC. The highest number of Muslim MPs were in 1980 when as many as 49 MPs from the community which constitute nearly fifth of Indian population present in the Lok Sabha.
It was triggered by reports of sea water rising in the southern districts. A report from Kollam district said the sea had surged half a kilometre into the shore.
The body will be placed for public homage at the school where his son is studying, ahead of the cremation at the house premises itself, sources said.
From 5.9 per cent in 1961, the state's elderly population has steadily increased to 15 per cent now.
St Mary's Malankara Catholic Church at Chungam has a plaque bearing the name of Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop of Munich, for donating 20,000 Deutschmarks, which was about Rs 80,000 at that time, for building the church in 1980.
360 Degree has a network of more than 500 volunteers across the nation.
A diving team of the Indian Navy started rescue operations on Monday and one Coast Guard ship is providing assistance, an official spokesman said.
Two more bodies were recovered late last night -- one each in Kollam and Alappuzha -- and the police said the toll was likely to rise.
In Kottayam district alone, 120 people have "returned" to the Hindu faith in the last three months.
According to police, no visible injury marks were found on the body of the priest.
'Those who were not co-operating are co-operating now.' 'Now, our facilities are fit, our doctors are fit and we have a better protocol of how to do isolation, how to do the collection.'
As many as 54 boats, including 19 snake boats, took part in the race that is considered the country's biggest watersport event.
The Hyderabad-based Humane Society International/India has set up an emergency helpline to coordinate animal rescue throughout Kerala. It is collaborating with Compassion Unlimited Plus Action, based in Bangalore, for rescue efforts in Karnataka's hill district of Coorg.
The Kerala government has set up a web site, keralarescue.in, to coordinate relief and aid for the floods-affected people. It has also set up a website for online transfer of donations towards flood relief.
The Congress high command on Thursday approved the list of its candidates for Lok Sabha polls in Kerala retaining all but two sitting MPs, including Union Ministers Shashi Tharoor and K V Thomas, giving a head start to the party in the campaign against rival Left Democratic Front.
106 people died on a single day on Thursday.
