New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan will give away awards to top-performing students of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) at its 57th Convocation Ceremony for the 2024–25 batch to be held here on Friday.The event will also see Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw, who is also the Chancellor of IIMC, presiding over a function to lay the foundation stone for the new Academic Block and Hostel Block of the institute.The convocation…
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Kottayam, Feb 25 (IANS) A day after the Kerala High Court came down heavily on the State government over alleged breach of privacy, senior Congress leader and CWC member Ramesh Chennithala escalated the attack, accusing Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of directly orchestrating a large-scale collection of personal data of government employees. Addressing a press conference, Chennithala alleged that the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) had written to SPARK, the Service and Payroll Administrative Repo…
Kochi, Feb 24 (IANS) What was initially suspected to be a railway accident near Kerala’s Vyttila has now been confirmed as a case of murder, with police arresting a Kochi man for allegedly killing a 35-year-old woman and dumping her body on a disused railway track in a bid to pass it off as a suicide.The accused, identified as Shaji, was taken into custody by the Maradu police after crucial CCTV footage and forensic leads pointed to his involvement.The victim, Sudha Baby, a native of Kottayam, w…
Thiruvananthapuram/Chennai, Jan 30 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Sabarimala gold heist case questioned actor Jayaram, a move that investigators describe as crucial in establishing the alleged diversion of gold plates meant for the hill shrine.The questioning was carried out at the actor’s residence in Chennai, following which the SIT indicated that Jayaram would be arraigned as a key witness in the case.In his statement, Jayaram confirmed that the gold plates, which w…
Kottayam (Kerala), Jan 26 (IANS) The much-anticipated effort to forge unity between Kerala’s two most influential Hindu social organisations — the Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham (SNDP Yogam) and the Nair Service Society (NSS) — has been abruptly put on hold, dealing a setback to an initiative that appeared to be gathering momentum just days ago.On Monday, the NSS director board resolved that there was no immediate need to pursue the proposed unity and that the matter could be deferred, reaffir…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 15 (IANS) A crucial steering committee meeting of the Kerala Congress(Mani) led by Rajya Sabha MP Jose K. Mani will be held in Kottayam on Friday, once again placing the spotlight on a party whose political journey has been defined by splits, realignments and an unerring instinct for survival.Formed in 1964, the Kerala Congress has, over the decades, lived up to the often quoted political description that it “grows as it splits and splits as it grows”.Today, six facti…
Chennai, Jan 1 (IANS) With a rise in avian influenza cases reported in parts of Kerala, including Alappuzha and Kottayam, authorities in Tamil Nadu have intensified surveillance along the border districts to prevent the disease from spreading into the state. Enhanced monitoring has been put in place, particularly in the Nilgiris and Coimbatore districts, which share a long and porous boundary with Kerala.Acting on the directions of the Animal Husbandry Department, special preventive measures hav…
Chennai, Dec 25 (IANS) In response to the detection of avian influenza (H1N1) in neighbouring Kerala, the Tamil Nadu Public Health Department has ordered heightened surveillance and preventive measures in districts along the border between the two states to prevent any possible spread of the disease. The directive follows reports from Kerala’s Alappuzha and Kottayam districts, where a large number of poultry birds reared in farms died suddenly in recent days. Blood samples collected from the a…
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 23 (IANS) Kerala has reported a fresh outbreak of avian influenza, with the highly contagious viral disease confirmed in Alappuzha and Kottayam districts, triggering emergency containment measures by multiple government departments. What has shaken the farmers and others equally is the fact that this has occurred at the peak season of Christmas, as it’s during this period that sales of poultry peak, with farmers stocking more than the usual.The confirmation came after sam…