Sunanda, who was not married to Tharoor then, had refuted allegations of any wrongdoing.
This is the Indian Navy's first massive evacuation exercise from foreign soil during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Kochi will be the new headquarters of Air India Express, while Thiruvananthapuram will be the main engineering centre of the airline.
A group of Indian nurses, who were evacuated from Libya by the government, arrived in Kochi in the early hours of Friday morning.
Kochi Tuskers Kerala rode on a rollicking opening stand between Brendon McCullum and VVS Laxman as they scored a challenging 161 for five against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their debut Indian Premier League match in Kochi on Saturday.
Among the distressed crowd at the venue were senior citizens, including women who had actively participated in the morning prayers.
Amid indications that investors of the Kochi IPL franchise have withdrawn, BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla said the Board has received "certain letters" from the consortium's stakeholders and a final decision on the troubled team would be taken on November 28.
Varied cultural events featuring the traditional art forms of Kerala was organised at the unveiling ceremony in 'God's Own Country.'
A group of young women and men have had enough of moral policing in Kerala. On Sunday, November 2 they plan to meet at Kochi's Marine Drive and stage a somewhat unique protest that involves... kissing.
Unable to resolve their differences, the Kochi franchise have withdrawn from the Indian Premier League (IPL) barely two days before the expiry of their one-month deadline, paving the way for the Board of Control for Cricket in India to issue a new tender for a replacement team.
At the bottom of the points table, former champions Deccan Chargers would be aiming to put an end to their dismal show so far when they clash against Kochi Tuskers Kerala at the Nehru Stadium in Kochi.
Adding a new twist to the Kochi IPL franchise drama, Union Minister for Agriculture and the BCCI president Sharad Pawar revealed on Thursday that members of the consortium that won the Kochi IPL franchise wanted to be based in Anmedabad.
The curtain goes up on the quarter-final league matches in the National Football Championship, for the Santosh Trophy, on Friday.
The Kochi-Bangalore-Chennai A-320 IC 509 flight with 42 passengers and seven crewmembers had taken off for Bangalore at 0700 hours from Nedumbassery airport, but returned within 30 minutes after the problem was noticed, airport sources said.
The BCCI on Tuesday said it was not aware of the Kochi consortium's "links" with ex-Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar, who was a member of the IPL's Governing Council before being ousted a few weeks ago.
The Kochi IPL franchise, which was given ten days to sort out its problems, submitted a letter to the Board of Control for Cricket, on Monday, which will now take a decision on the newly-formed team's fate in the fourth edition of the high-profile Twenty20 league. The BCCI's legal team has been entrusted the task of studying the letter which was forwarded to its president, Shashank Manohar.
When the Kochi IPL team was won after a whopping bid of US $333 million (Rs 1533 crores), -- the second-most costliest purchase in the Twenty20 tournament -- it sent shockwaves around the country.
A Kerala state owned boat ferrying about 100 passengers rammed into aircraft carrier INS Viraat in Kochi, naval sources said on Monday.
Malaysian Airlines will be launching its operations in the Kochi-Kuala Lumpur sector from November this year. \n
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Sharad Pawar came out in support of IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, saying there was nothing wrong in making public names of the stakeholders of the Kochi franchise.
The controversy surrounding the Indian Premier League's Kochi franchise took yet another political turn on Thursday as Lalit Modi was accused of working under the pressure of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to take away the bid to Ahmedabad.
Besides Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (punishment for murder) and Section 3 of the Explosive Substances Act, relevant sections of the UAPA have also been invoked against the accused, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) official told reporters in Kochi.
Pune and Kochi are the two teams for the forthcoming editions of the Indian Premier League, commissioner Lalit Modi announced in Chennai, on Sunday. Sahara successfully won the Pune franchise after they bid the highest amount of US $370 million, while the Kochi team was won by a consortium Rendezvous Sports for a whopping amount of $333 million.
'The hiring in India will be primarily around skills in data engineering, AI, and product engineering.'
Sunanda Pushkar, the woman at the centre of a ownership controversy surrounding the Kochi IPL franchise, is considering filing for damages and has hired a Dubai-based lawyer for the purpose.
A foolproof security arrangements have been made around the recently refurbished Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium in Kochi, which will host the second ODI between India and England, a top police official said.
The 71-year-old politician has been asked to depose at the agency office in Kochi on January 12, they said.
An Air India Express flight cabin crew has been arrested by the Customs for allegedly smuggling over 1.4 kg gold through Cochin International Airport near Kochi, official sources said.
Tahawur Hussain Rana, who was arrested in the United States along with terror operative David Headley by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month, had visited Kochi on November 16, last year, and had stayed in Taj Residency (now named Gateway) for a day.
The Central Industrial Security Forces have intercepted a French yacht near the Kochi coast and took into custody two foreigners, Malcom Russel Williamson (72), a resident of Florida in US, and Guilamo Pinaol (45), a resident of French capital Paris.
Italian oil tanker Enrica Lexie, from which gunshots were fired killing two Indian fishermen off Alappuzha, has been brought to Kochi early on Friday and police and coast guard personnel are questioning the crew.
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has again fired a salvo at BCCI bigwigs Sashank Manohar and president N Srinivasan for the "mess" created due to the termination of IPL franchise Kochi Tuskers Kerala.
Ashfaq Alam had been in jail for one month in connection with the crime committed in New Delhi and later came out on bail, Aluva Rural Superintendent of Police Vivek Kumar told reporters in Kochi.
The airline will launch services from Sharjah aboard state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft. As a result, from September 1, 2009 to October 24, 2009 and from March 28, 2010 to October 30, 2010, flight 9W 562 will depart from Kochi at 1045 hrs, arriving in Sharjah at 1305 hrs. Flight 9W 561 will then depart Sharjah at 1415 hrs, arriving in Kochi at 1945 hrs. But the departure and arrival timings of the flights are however, subject to the governments approval.
Nine people died and several others were reported missing as a string of landslips triggered by heavy downpour battered Idukki and adjoining districts of Kerala on Monday.
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