The property show organised by Kerala Builders Forum is one such expo that’s been here for several years and it has turned out to be a regular annual event in Kochi. The show organised by Kerala Builders Forum is, perhaps, the biggest show of i ts kind in Kerala and is more or less organised during July and December as it marks the period when most NRIs from Middle East reach Kerala shores for their vacation.

THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The Railways have appealed to the public to make use of the facility of purchasing tickets up to three days in advance to any destination to avoid rush at the booking counters at railway stations. Southern Railway ...

MALAPPURAM: The district Akshaya Project office has invited applications for the post of accountant. Candidates should be B.Com. with Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) and should know Tally accounting ...

B.P.T. examination: The second and third year Bachelor of Physiotherapy (new scheme) examination will begin on August 6 and September 3 respectively at the College of Physiotherapy, Thalassery; A.W.H. Special College, ...

KADAMPUZHA (MALAPPURAM): The district-level inauguration of the Newspaper In Education (NIE) programme of The Hindu in Malappuram was held at Al-Huda Central School, Kadampuzha, on Wednesday. V.P. Mohammed Basheer ...

KASARAGOD: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is repeating its mistakes by voting with the BJP against the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha and ousting Speaker Somnath Chatterjee from the party for not following that line, Kerala ...

Nedumbassery: Four persons, including a woman, were killed and nine others sustained injuries in two road accidents on National Highway 47 near the airport here on Wednesday. Three persons were killed on the spot when a coal-laden lorry ...

MALAPPURAM: Kerala Students Union State president Hybi Eden said here on Wednesday that the KSU would continue its agitation until the government withdrew the controversial Class VII Social Science textbook. Mr. Eden was participating in a ...

MALAPPURAM: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said here on Wednesday that Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee had betrayed the party in a big way by siding with the Congress. Mr. Vijayan was ...

MALAPPURAM: The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has said that its vote in favour of the confidence motion moved by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at bay. IUML State ...

Kerala Sahridaya Vedi: Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan to give away awards to achievers in various spheres of life, Symphony Hall, Mascot Hotel, 6.30 p.m. Breakthrough Science Society: Science ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala government would draw the attention of the Prime Minister and the Railway Minister to the acute shortage of railway coaches in the State, Minister in charge of Railways in the State government M.Vijayakumar told ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State government would draw the attention of the Prime Minister and the Railway Minister to the acute shortage of railway coaches in the State, Minister in charge of Railways in the State government M.Vijayakumar told ...

Thiruvananthapuram: Special counters will function at Aayakar Bhavan, Kowdiar, Thiruvananthapuram, for receiving income tax returns relating to salary. The counters will function from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on working days from July 28 to 31. The ...

Thiruvananthapuram: The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will hold an adalat at its office at Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram, at 11 a.m. on August 11. Members may send in their complaints about EPF or EPF pension to the Public ...

Thiruvananthapuram: According to the latest statistics released by the Central Water Commission, water level in the Kallada and Idamalayar reservoirs increased slightly during the week ending July 21. In Kallada, the level increased by 3.64 ft ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: All departments under the State government are to set apart a share of their annual funds specifically for programmes for the welfare of the youth, according to the Kerala State Youth Policy announced in the Assembly on ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday forecast the ongoing spell of rainfall over Kerala to intensify by degrees during the next four-five days. The IMD’s numerical weather prediction models show ...

Thiruvananthapuram: The Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed the Payment of Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill and the Kerala Payment of Pension to Members of Legislature (Amendment) Bill seeking to raise salaries, allowances and ...

Heated debate in Assembly on ‘nokkukooli’ issue

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Enthused by the response to RPF Mitra Yojna, a community policing initiative for ensuring the security of passengers, the Railway Protection Force has decided to seek more public participation to address the issues at ...

Project to overcome transmission problems

‘Finance Department relaxing controls’

State government to go in appeal against High Court verdict

Thiruvananthapuram: TERUMO PENPOL here is organising an all-Kerala essay competition on the topic “safe blood supply should be a fundamental right” for college, higher secondary and high school students as part of its bid to create ...

Thiruvananthapuram: Minister for Housing Benoy Viswom said here on Wednesday that the State government will take steps to establish a State- wide network of laboratories offering testing facilities for construction materials and equipment to ...

Failure to check pollution of River Karamana

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The members of the Thiruvananthapuram Bar Association have decided to intensify the ongoing agitation seeking the setting up of a High Court Bench in the capital city. The decision was taken in the wake of the Central ...

Ernakulam Telecommunications: Telephone mela, telephone exchange, Aluva, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CULTURE Kerala Lalithakala Academy: ‘Beijing welcomes you’, ...

KOCHI: The government will launch an informal education programme across the State to provide primary education equivalent to Class IV for those aged up to 60 years who could not pursue formal schooling. Addressing a press conference ...

Sea-safety kits to be supplied free of cost to fishermen

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday directed the State government and the Director of Medical Education to complete the admission process for the post-graduate super-specialty courses in medicine in various medical colleges as per the ...

Kochi: The Ernakulam Sessions Court on Wednesday granted bail to Saifudeen Alikannu, the second accused in cheating case filed by an NRI woman. Self-styled god man Santhosh Madhavan is the first accused. The court ordered that the second ...

KOCHI: Nearly 150 students aspiring to study in the United Kingdom attended a pre-departure briefing organised by Education U.K. and British Council here on Tuesday. The event was part of the promotional programmes being organised by ...

To prevent overlapping of routes; demand for more low-platform buses

KOCHI: A new digital bus punching centre will be launched in the city by the police with an aim to control the speed of private transport buses that have caused a majority of accidents in the city. A statement from the City Police ...

Team to meet Agriculture Minister for release of land

KOCHI: District Collector M. Beena has directed the police to take action against vehicles involved in transporting animals for slaughter if they violated the regulations. The Collector has also asked the secretary of the of the Society for ...

KOCHI: Phillips Carbon Black Ltd at Karimugal near here has plans to invest Rs. 160 crore as part of its expansion in the State. The company, which is part of the RPG Group of Companies, will expand the capacity of its Kochi plant from ...

KOCHI: Education Minister M.A. Baby will inaugurate a function to felicitate the first batch that has passed the Class X ‘A’ level course under an informal continuous education programme of the Kerala State Literacy Mission ...

ALAPPUZHA: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan will be the chief guest at the State-level launch of the disbursal of the Cooperative Department’s interest-free loans for paddy cultivation scheme, at Nedumudi here on July ...

ALAPPUZHA: The Alappuzha-Cherthala Coastal Private Bus Employees’ Association is offering scholarships and a year’s free travel to meritorious school students. Six students from schools in Arthunkal, Mararikulam, Pollathai, ...

All the accidents occurred on National Highway 47

ALAPPUZHA: One person was killed when a wall of the house he was dismantling along with a group of others collapsed on him in Arattupuzha here on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Sunil Kumar, 25. Mr. Kumar, along with his neighbours, ...

KALPETTA: A tea estate worker was killed and another injured when a concrete slab fell on them on the Kambamala tea estate, near Thalapoya, on Wednesday. The Thalapoya police said the dead was Mada Swamy, 38. He is survived by his wife and ...

KALPETTA: Two persons were injured and three houses destroyed in a wild elephant attack at Kenichira on Wednesday morning. Rajan of Kuruvanthanath and Rafil of Edappulavil at Kenichira where injured seriously while trying to escape from ...

KANNUR: A tribal survey will be conducted in 36 panchayat areas in the district in August under the auspices of the District Planning Committee (DPC). A district-level Scheduled Tribe workshop was held at the district panchayat hall ...

KANNUR: The Kannur University Union has invited applications from college unions to select the best performing union for the Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pilla Memorial Trophy. A press release from the university union here said that college ...

Panchayat-level power-line survey under TESM

No action taken on plea to ban import of cassia

KATTAPPANA: The District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) will open the grassland owned by it in Wagamon, a developing tourism centre in Idukki district, for visitors to savour the beauty of the place. The land will be given on lease to ...

Fisheries Department removes Chinese and stake nets from the lake

KOLLAM: The State unit of the Indian Society for Cultural Cooperation and Friendship (ISCUF) will observe Cuban Solidarity Day on July 26 in Ernakulam. ISCUF State general secretary Soni B. Thengamam said here on Wednesday that a ...

KOLLAM: The 50th anniversary of the Chandanathope martyrdom will be observed here on July 25 and 26 by the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP). Two persons had become martyrs in a police-firing incident at Chandanathope on July 26, 1958 and ...

KOTTAYAM: Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally, has received accreditation from the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). According to Aji Athimoottil, manager of the college, Amal Jyothi is the only new-generation ...

KOTTAYAM: Sree Narayana Boat Club, Kumarakom, has invited entries for selecting a logo for the annual Kumarakom Tourism Regatta. The logo should represent the importance of boat races and also of Kumarakom, the organisers said. The last date ...

KOTTAYAM: An eight-member team from the University Grants Commission (UGC), entrusted with the appraisal of the implementation of the projects under the 10th plan, began its three-day visit to the Mahatma Gandhi University on Tuesday. The team ...

Conference in Thodupuzha on July 27

Information and Public Relations Department and Malabar Christian College: Documentary film festival, screening of documentaries ‘Frontier Gandhi,’ and ‘Pattom Thanu Pillai,’ MCC auditorium, 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. ...

Work should have been over by March 31

KOZHIKODE: The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) district committee denied that its workers had attacked League House here on Wednesday. The federation alleged that the Indian Union Muslim League and the United Democratic ...

Kozhikode: The Department of Forest and Wildlife has sought the help of the public to prevent illegal felling of sandalwood trees from vested forests, government lands or even private property. The government had already banned the ...

KOZHIKODE: The Nisa Progressive Muslim Women’s Forum has demanded a fool-proof probe into the death of Safia, a teenaged girl from Kasaragod. V.P. Suhara of Nisa alleged that based on the details gathered from the family of the victim, ...

Accused attacked two policemen

KOZHIKODE: The Gurupooja Puraskaram of the Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi will be presented posthumously to Nellikode Komalam. Komalam died after the award was declared. Komalam made her presence felt in the drama field for more than 50 years ...

Kozhikode: League House, State committee office of the Indian Union Muslim League on Red Cross Road here, was attacked early on Wednesday morning. Windowpanes of the four-storey building were shattered in stone-throwing at around 1.30 ...

athrubhumi daily on K.P. Kesava Menon Road was attacked on Wednesday evening by activists of the IUMLwhile taking out a march in protest against the attack on their party office . A portion of the glass panes in the ...

The book has a directory of tribal healers

KOZHIKODE: The State Coordination Committee of Motor Workers said in a statement here on Wednesday that it was forced to hold a token strike on July 29 as the government had failed to address its long-standing demands. The convener of the ...

Palakkad: A BJP worker who was allegedly attacked by some CPI(M) activists a few days back succumbed to his injuries at Thrissur Medical College Hospital on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Aruchamy of Kottakkodu near here. ...

PATHANAMTHITTA: The Kerala State Service Pensioners’ Union (KSSPU) has called upon the government to give due priority to redressing the grievances of the thousands of service pensioners in the State. Delivering the keynote ...

PATHANAMTHITTA: The Forest Department will release the entire 12.675 hectares of forest land for Sabarimala development as recommended in the Sabarimala master plan, according to an official release issued here on Wednesday ...

Leaders of parties and NGOs expected for meeting

PATHANAMTHITTA: The Sadhu Jana Vimochana Samyukta Vedi (SJVSV) has warned the Democratic Youth Federation of India that it would retaliate if the DYFI continued to “harass” its workers who were staging a “peaceful land ...

Thrissur: Writer and social activist Sukumar Azhikode has said that some of the development initiatives in the State do not serve the interests of the common man. He was addressing a dharna staged in front of the Corporation office on ...

Thrissur: A discussion organised here on Tuesday on the proposed Indo-U.S. nuclear deal called for a public debate on the issue. The participants at the discussion, organised by the Thrissur Pouravali, said the Centre should seek the ...

THRISSUR: A lecture on ‘Selection of crops and methods of cultivation in Kerala’ will be organised at the seminar hall of the College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, on Thursday. P.K. Michael Tharakan, Sri Ramakrishna Hegde Chair ...

Thrissur: K.K. Janardhanan, professor, Amala Cancer Research Centre, near here, has been elected Fellow of the National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS), Chennai. His work to develop medicines for cancer treatment from mushrooms has been ...

Thrissur: Kerala Sahithya Akademi will organise a camp for budding writers on July 26 and 27 at Kalagramam, Ollookkara. As many as 40 writers are expected to participate in the camp that will be inaugurated by Akademi president M. Mukundan. ...