The Centre has decided to set up a Coastal Command by integrating the functions of the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard, to combat possible terrorist attacks from the sea, in light of the recent Mumbai terror attacks, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said at Kollam, in Kerala on Monday.
Headmaster of an upper primary school in Kerala was on Saturday sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a lower court in connection with a case of burning the National Flag on Republic Day in 2005.
A key figure in coalition politics of Kerala for several decades, John was known in the state political circles as 'Kerala Kissinger' for his astute abilities to manage political crises at time when the state was passing through unsteady political phases.
Engineering student Arun Suresh Kumar reported two significant security-related bugs to Facebook.
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.
'Mere 'literacy' is not the same thing as 'education', which involves conceding that others have rights, and that one of those prerogatives is a woman's right to dignity. In 2012, the Kerala police registered 1,474 cases of rape, of which 455 victims were children,' says T V R Shenoy.
On his last day in office, Bhaskaran had come to work as usual. He was returning after attending to a stationary train when a train being shunted in the reverse direction ran over him, splitting his body into two.
Seventy children were on Thursday hospitalised as they took ill after allegedly inhaling 'smoke' emanating from a plant of state-owned Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited at Chavara near Kollam in Kerala, prompting authorities to temporarily shut it down.
State health authorities stepped up efforts to contain the problem with the help of medical teams from the armed forces, which have been active since Sunday.
The Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham announces admissions the Bachelor of Technology admissions for its three Schools of Engineering.
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.
Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned on Monday amid protests by Opposition members, over the issue of Kerala CM Chandy being reportedly asked not to attend a function.
Soon after the hurricane struck, Amritanandamayi had sent the head of the centre in California, Bramhachari Dayamitra Chaitanya, to the affected areas to assess the best ways for organisation to help hurricane victims.
Our focus should rather be on strengthening security measures to prevent Kollam-like tragedies, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
There was a massive explosion followed by tremors which were felt even a kilometre away from the 100-year-old Puttingal Devi temple.
Vaibhav Aggarwal's Change.org petition has been shared widely on Twitter and Facebook and continues to gather more signatures rapidly.
Creating new benchmarks in safety, Maruti Udyog Limited on Monday announced it would set up 15 world class driving schools in India in the next three months.
Jnanpith awardee and eminent Malayalam poet, lyricist and environmentalist O N V Kurup passed away at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday following cardiac arrest. He was 84.
At Delhi's markets, cardamom, pepper selling at double their recent rates
A clear picture will emerge by then after the UDF liasion committee meeting on March 8.
The arrests have been made in cases related to blasts outside court premises in South India since April this year.
In a joint operation with police of two states, the National Investigation Agency on Monday arrested three persons suspected to be part of a group sympathising with Al Qaeda and involved in five blast cases in court premises of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka since April.
Indian in Saudi jail: Chandy to take up issue with PM
Devaswom sources said they were planning to apprise the high court of an earlier supreme court verdict on conduct of the Pooram festival.
Two more bodies were recovered late last night -- one each in Kollam and Alappuzha -- and the police said the toll was likely to rise.
A battle royal is expected when the two teams clash in the final of the National Football Championship on Sunday.
It will take a long time for the people of the picturesque coastline in Kollam to overcome the shock of the nightmare caused by the killer waves that claimed over 100 lives in the densely populated fishing hamlets of the district, in Kerala.
Chief Minister K Palaniswami announced a solatium of Rs 4 lakh to the kin of each of the victims
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.
In the wake of Fathima Lateef's tragic suicide at IIT-Madras, A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com speaks to students and professors to find out if one of India's leading educational institutions has a dark side to it.
Defending champions Manipur were beaten 3-4 via the tie-breaker in the semi-finals of the National Football Championship.
The BJP scripted history by opening its account in the state assembly.
Holding placards bearing pictures of Lord Ayyappa and chanting his hymns, the protesters marched through the busy roads of Kochi, the state's commercial hub, after launching the stir from the famed Shiva temple there.
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