'We still have 30,000-40,000 cases.' 'It is plateauing, but the number should definitely come down more so that we can convert the pandemic into an endemic.'
The Onam release is a laugh riot and will have Mohanlal playing a politician
Dealers say that the full-year outlook remains negative with a projected contraction in retail sales of 15-35 per cent across segments, save tractors, which look set to clock a positive annual growth.
A division bench of the high court comprising Justices Sanjib Banerjee and Arijit Banerjee, while hearing a public interest litigation, said that no visitors will be allowed to enter the marquees. For small pandals, barricades will have to be put up five metres from the entrance, while for the bigger ones, the distance has to be 10 metres, the court ordered.
Though people from relief camps have started returning to their homes, more than 10.40 lakh people were still in 2,770 camps across the state.
Kerala floods take a toll on small businesses, NBFCs brace for losses
Firm is conducting feasilbility studies on setting up units in 40 countries, will take final call based on global fallout of trade spat.
Save the date, book your tickets in advance.
Stoking yet another controversy, the Bharatiya Janata Party in Kerala on Friday described social reformer and Dalit icon Sree Narayana Guru, who belonged to the backward Ezhava caste, as the greatest "Hindu sanyasi" the state has ever seen.
Indrajith on working in Ezhamathe Varavu directed by veteran Hariharan and scripted by Jnanpith Award winner M T Vasudevan Nair.
Soon-to-be-married Divya Nair will celebrate her last Diwali at her parents' home. She looks back at some of her most memorable festive memories growing up.
The muted expectation of dealers come at a time when vehicle manufacturers such as Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor, Mahindra & Mahindra and others reported a double-digit fall in wholesale dispatches to dealerships in July and August.
The makers of the film didn't want to hurt the feelings of Buddhists and that is the reason the title was changed.
The feat is the second one for the Indian Space Research Organisation scientists in using the indigenously made cryogenic stage after the January 5, 2014 launch of GSLV-D5.
Firms are enthused at passenger vehicle numbers but high interest rates a problem.
Air India Express currently operates 145 daily flights, down from about 200 six months ago.
Parliament was adjourned once again on Thursday amid din as Bharatiya Janata Party persisted with its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation provoking Congress members to raise slogans.
The CM urged all Malayalis to donate one month salary to rebuild the state, where the death toll has now touched 302.
The film is worth a watch for some good performances.
The rupee's slide to a two-year low will impact consumer durables and electronics companies, as the import content in their products tends to be high
Blessy is contemplating a Hindi remake of his Onam release.
Rediff.com presents pictures of this year's La Tomatina festival which was celebrated on Wednesday.
Malayalam film industry is gearing up to celebrate Onam and Eid in style.
Company officials hope that a slew of recent measures will help revive sagging volumes.
Malayalis on Monday celebrated Onam, their spring festival commemorating the egalitarian Utopia under the reign of King Mahabali when people lived in plenty, prosperity and equality.
The Malayalam movie has a lot of promise but fizzles out in the end.
Fans will have to settle down for Tees Maar Khan or Toonpur Ka Superrhero.
We knew from the moment the pandemic took hold that this would be a long haul -- at least 12 to 18 months. Nothing should have changed that assessment, says Mihir S Sharma.
The country has been put on high alert following intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based terrorists may strike during the upcoming festival season. The Centre has asked state governments to take all possible steps to foil attempts by militant groups, particularly the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, to disrupt peace during the ongoing month of Ramzan and the upcoming festivals of Raksha Bandhan, Id-ul Fitr and Onam.
There's hardly anything to complain about this Malayalam film.
Issues like high insurance cost and the announced price hike effective January could also weigh on sales in 2019. The only bright spot is the softening seen in fuel prices over the past month.
"Coming festivals (Chhat, Puja, Dussehra, Deepavali, Id, Xmas, New year) pose a huge challenge in the pandemic control. It has been seen that Onam in Kerala and Ganesh Chaturthi in Maharashtra escalated the pandemic seriously. This must not be allowed to happen in Delhi," the report stated.
Despite the recent hooch tragedy that claimed 26 lives in the Mulappuram district this month, the liquor consumption in Kerala continues to be on a rise.
Director Shafi is back with his latest Malayalam offering.
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.
The man, who found a cosy bedroom in the mortuary, was handed over to police, who let him off after registering a case for trespassing, police said.
Tata's small car might just have managed to steal the thunder from the annual boat racing festival in Kerala. For a special offer for Onam, Keralites have decided to give oars a rest, and test-drive the Nano instead.
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.
Price-wary customers, waiting for good bargains in the festival season this year, are likely to be disappointed.
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