On Saturday, the quake measured 4.4 on the Richter scale in Vijayapura bordering Maharashtra, and there was another tremor of 1.8 this morning in south Karnataka.
'Metro man' E Sreedharan, a much-admired technocrat who is credited with changing the face of public transport system in the country, will join the Bharatiya Janata Party giving a boost to the saffron party ahead of the assembly polls in Kerala.
It was a double tragedy for a family in Kasargod district of Kerala which lost its Dubai-based son, who was on his way to attend his father's funeral, in the crash of the Air India Express flight in Mangalore. Siddique Sulaiman, a trading salesman, was on his way to attend his father's last rites in Kasargod and ended up boarding the fateful Air India Express flight to Mangalore.
The Department of Revenue Intelligence, DRI is tracing a major counterfeit currency racket with roots in Kerala and wings spread across Middle east and Far East.
A proposed highway project in Kerala, connecting the state capital Thiruvananthapuram to its northern tip Kasargod, has hit a roadblock with political leaders and social organisations coming out against it.
The youth hails from Kasargod, Kerala, and had left India to the United Arab Emirates in 2018 from where he is believed to have joined the ranks with the global terror organisation in Afghanistan, they said.
They had allegedly burst crackers and raised slogans in support of the Pakistani cricket team.
Murshid Muhammed, a native of Padna in this district, was killed in a drone attack in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan,
Bindu Sampath from Thiruvananthapuram is the voice of all those mothers who have lost their children to ISIS. Her habeas corpus petition for her daughter Nimisha, who got married and converted to Islam, was turned down. Now the NIA has found daughter and family to be with ISIS in Afghanistan, but Bindu has not given up hope to bring her back to India.
Kerala State Disaster Management Authority has warned about the possibilities of landslides in the hilly areas already hit by extremely heavy rainfall in the past few days and directed people living in the region and government authorities to be vigilant.
After introducing a search engine for phones without internet, Innoz now plans to expand into segments such as mobile advertising.
The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau on Friday filed an FIR against Communist Party of India-Marxist leader V S Achuthanandan in a land allotment case even as the octogenarian former chief minister indicated that he would resign as Opposition leader if chargesheeted.
Asserting that the safety of its people is of utmost importance, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday said the state does not have any "secret agenda" to pursue in the Mullaperiyar dam issue.
'Once Mohanlal's ever-swelling entourage grasped his enormous worth, once it realized that the innate Mohanlal appeal could be profited from, it set about to exploit, to make uproars, to create the Mohanlal brand.' 'And he wasn't meant to be a brand. He was meant to be an artist, a tireless explorer of the unique seas inside him,' asserts Sreehari Nair.
Inspired by her mother, Rayana R Khazi refuses to give into the forces of fundamentalism.
It has also been decided to suspend the interstate bus services till March 31, the officials said. The decisions have been taken at a high-level meeting attended by chief secretaries of all states and the cabinet secretary and the principal secretary to the prime minister.
Two people died in Kasargod, located in the northernmost part of Kerala, after a Muslim League function to felicitate the party's new state president Panakkad Hyderali Shihab Thangal and general secretary P.K.Kunhalikuty turned violent.
The cyber police in Kerala has launched a probe into an alleged bid by supporters of ISIS to lure a Kerala youth to join the terror group by sending messages through mobile application WhatsApp, police said on Monday.
Two more persons belonging to the dreaded D-Company were picked up in Mangalore. Detained for questioning, Ismail Kaup and Athik, the police say, were closely associated with Rashid Malabari.
Three associates of the dreaded D Gang were picked up in Mangalore in connection with several cases of extortion. A team of the Ullal police station in Magalore launched a massive manhunt for three of Chota Shakeel's associates and finally managed to nab them on Friday night.
Communist Party of India-Marxist state secretary and politbureau member Pinarayi Vijayan, who is leading a yatra from Kasargod in the northern-most part of Kerala to state capital Thiruvananthapuram says that his road show has been getting overwhelming response from all corners and that the people are flocking to take part in it.
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a whopping 8.7 lakh expatriates from Kerala to return home, most of them from the Gulf, since last May, with a majority of 5.67 lakh citing job loss as the reason for it, according to official data.
Armed Somalian pirates on Friday released three Indians and 26 other members of the crew on board a hijacked cargo ship after keeping them in captivity for more than one and half months.
The war of words over the SNC Lavalin case is continuing in the political landscape of Kerala with the two prominent political leaders in the state out in the streets as part of their state wide yatras.
E-krishi, Kerala State IT Mission's ((KSITM) online agri-business network, is making waves in the state with the pilot project in Malapuram district receiving tremendous response.
'If the missing people really had any contact with IS, it would be dangerous.' 'Majority of Muslims do not approve of this.'
The picturesque landscape of Pettimudi was flattened into a rough patch of boulders and mud with parts of asbestos and tin sheets seen scattered around.
Aishwarya Rai's parents perform pujas near Kasargod, her birthplace.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has said it will not allow the Centre to go ahead with the Sethusamudram ship canal project as it posed a "challenge" to Indian culture.
"The President was very enthusiastic when we told him we want to give this award to Qader," said MIOA Deputy Secretary Mahesh Arora.
25-year old daughter Nimisha came along with her husband to her house on May 16 last and on May 18, she received a call from her daughter that she was going to Sri Lanka on some business.
The high command's choice of Thennala Balakrishna Pillai and Vayalar Ravi for the election to the Rajya Sabha appears to have prompted the resignation.
The 28-year old T Narayanan will have to undergo two more years RI if he failed to remit the fine amount, which was to be paid to the girl.
Leela Group has tied-up with Singapore-based Amman Resorts to build an up-market beach resort at Bekal in Kasargod district of Kerala, vice-chairman and managing director of the group, Vivek Nair, said on Friday.
With lakhs of these workers stranded on highways and inter-state bus terminus, the government stepped in and asked states and union territories to immediately set up relief camps for migrant workers and others who are returning to their home states or trying to do so during the nationwide lockdown period.
Twenty-two Keralites, including six women and three children have reached the bastion of Islamic State terror operations in Afghanistan.
While Health minister K K Shylaja would lead the chain at Kasargod, senior CPM leader Brinda Karat would be the last person at the end of the chain in Thiruvananthapuram.
'The CPM is not in a mood to introspect, and their total failure on all fronts is being covered up by crimes such as maiming and killing political opponents,' alleges Bharatiya Janata Party's Kerala president V Muraleedharan on the eve of his rally to protest the murder of his party activists in Kannur.
Meanwhile, flight operations from the Kochi international airport will resume at 12 noon on Sunday, an airport official said.
Sasikala, said she was not allowed to undertake the trek to the shrine and sent back by the police, official sources said that she entered the sanctum sanctorum and offered prayers.
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