Criticising police for 'protecting' higher officials in the navy, the Kerala high court Monday declined to grant anticipatory bail to Lt Ravi Kiran, whose wife had filed a police complaint in Kochi levelling charges of wife swapping by her husband and his superiors.
An estimated 223 people have lost their lives since August 8 in Kerala's worst floods in decades that has caused damage worth more than Rs 20,000 crore.
The defence ministry is in the final stages of preparing the new procurement policy, which will 'aggressively' pursue indigenisation, Defence Minister A K Antony said in Kochi on Monday.
Images from the second ODI between India and England, in Kochi, on Tuesday.
The situation in the state was 'extremely grave', said Vijayan, who spoke to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Home minister, Rajnath Singh, this morning seeking more central assistance for relief operations.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India which has largest number of youth population, should give them more opportunities and 'dream big'.
The maximum death toll has been reported from Idukki district, where 43 people have lost their lives so far, as per official estimates. 28 deaths were reported in Malappuram and 27 in Thrissur.
The decision to suspend the operations was taken after shutters of the Idamalayar and Cheruthoni dams, part of Idukki reservoir, were opened on Tuesday evening to release excess water.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday awarded three Test matches of the November-December home series against Sri Lanka to Kolkata, Nagpur and Delhi while the newly-constructed stadium in Barasapara, Guwahati was awarded a marquee T20 International against Australia in October.
The goalless stalemate in the fourth edition of Indian Super League (ISL) continued for a second successive day as debutant Jamshedpur FC held NorthEast United FC to a 0-0 draw in Guwahati on Saturday.
'If the meditative yoga programme we had developed for the elderly was practised for one hour every day, five days in a week for six months, it could lead to an improvement in the overall quality of life of the elderly.'
The airline has been defaulting on salaries for some time, making partial payments in some cases or not paying at all, as it continues to lose money mainly in domestic routes where it can't raise fares facing competition from low-cost airlines.
Modi had on Friday urged people to turn off lights at their homes for nine minutes at 9pm to display the country's collective resolve and solidarity to defeat the virus.
Maintaining that their son is innocent, the parents of S Sreesanth, who is under arrest in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, on Wednesday declined to comment on the Delhi police invoking the stringent MCOCA provisions on their son.
After Kochi, the City of Joy witnessed its own 'Kiss of Love' edition by students of two universities to protest moral policing and promote gender sensitisation.
Ahead of the opening one-day in Kochi India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has said it would be a mistake to believe that India will enjoy an upper hand against the West Indies in the one-day series just because the Caribbean side has lost the Test series.
The third season od Celebrity Cricket League was kicked off in a starry event over the weekend.
The noted actor was undergoing treatment for liver and kidney diseases.
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.
'Many who have experimented with online education will adopt a blended model once things return to normal,' edX CEO and founder Anant Agrawal tells Anjuli Bhargava.
The Goldman Sachs report that suggests the stock market, Nifty, could grow 17 percent to reach 7,000 by December. At this rate the country will be second to Korea, and better than China.
Despite impressive economic performance in the past two decades, India faces persisting challenges of poverty, equity, sustainability and opportunity, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated in his address after inaugurating the 11th version of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Kochi.
Services successfully defended their Santosh Trophy title after they defeated the hosts Kerala 4-3 in penalty shootout in the summit clash of the 67th edition of the National Football Championships in Kochi, on Sunday.
Rain during the last two days forced the organisers to postpone Monday's matches and reschedule the quarter-final league in the National Football Championship.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday demanded an "impartial" court-monitored inquiry into the allegations against Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra over his property dealings with realty major DLF.
'I believe Bumrah, Ishant, Shami, Umesh, all four can play in the playing XI.'
Even as a controversy raged over 'wife swapping' charges in Navy's Southern Command in Kochi, Defence Minister A K Antony today ordered the dismissal of a Naval officer after he was found guilty of having illicit relations with the wife of his superior.
Jayaram and Priyamani play a married couple going through some tough times in their lives.
'We have integrated start-up space created in almost all the 14 district headquarters of the state.'
'They have incubation facilities providing entrepreneurs common facilities like shared software, legal support, fab labs, hardware, manufacturing facilities and services like chartered accounting facilities, etc, enabling the start-ups to concentrate on technology R&D and product development.'
Kerala top the list of state-wise break-up of repatriation requests with 25,246, followed by 6,617 from Tamil Nadu and 4,341 from Maharashtra. A total of 3,715 people from Uttar Pradesh requested for evacuation, 3,320 from Rajasthan, 2,796 from Telangana and, 2,786 from Karnataka.
National football coach Wim Koevermans has named his squad of 23 for the international friendly against Palestine, scheduled to be played in Kochi on February 6.
Young heroes Dulquer Salmaan and Unni Mukundan play friends with different attitudes in Lal Jose's Vikramadityan.
Gandhi also said that he was in favour of accepting foreign aid from countries like the UAE for rebuilding the flood-ravaged southern state.
'Unless we make our own testing kits, we will not get out of this disease faster.'
Mammootty has a double role in Balyakalasakhi,
The grief-stricken mother wishes for death penalty for the guilty.
'This is an issue that is larger than the interests of any one party.'
The AIFF has sent the video tapes of the controversial Santosh Trophy quarterfinal match between Manipur and Goa to AFC.
Attracting investment, highlighting resilience of the economy and explaining steps taken to reverse the growth slump.
It was the first meeting between the countries in more than two decades and has been dubbed 'The Earth Derby' as it features nations that are home to a third of the world's population.
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