Sudarshanan

Senior congress leader and KPCC executive committee member K sudarshanan Pillai died of heart attack at the Varkala Taluk Hospital here on Monday.He was 66.

A fast-track special court in the district sentenced a 22-year-old man to eight-year imprisonment on Saturday. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 for sexually harassing a minor girl inside a moving bus in 2020.

The state government reconstituted the general council of Kerala Sahitya Akademi by removing four members, including vice-president Balachandran Vadakkedath.

The installation of interlock tiles to check water logging on Peyad-Kattakkada road has proven to be unscientific.

Following several requests from the Kerala Road Fund Board (KRFB), Reliance Jio Infocomm has finally made a move to restore stretches under the City Roads Improvement Project (Crip) that it had dug up.

Actors Anoop Menon, Dharmajan Bolgatty, Manoj K Jayan, Baiju Santhosh, and Senthil Krishna will essay the key characters in ‘Maradu 357’.

The government on Thursday appointed officials from the sensitive general administration department (political) section to assist the disaster management team probing the fire that broke out in the same section of the secretariat on Tuesday evening.

Premo pipes, which are notorious for frequent bursts, caused yet another burst at Pottakuzhy on Wednesday morning.

Revenue minister E Chandrasekharan has directed district collectors to keep a strict vigil on construction activities in the state during rainy season, in the wake of Pangappara tragedy. The minister visited the site here on Tuesday where four labourers had died after earth caved in during construction of a retaining wall. The minister said that the excavation was being conducted violating safety norms.

The state budget has brought cheers to Arjun Santhosh who swam across Vembanad Lake demanding a new bridge connecting Perumbalam island to the mainland. Perumbalam is an island located in the lake between Ernakulam and Alappuzha districts.

Residents of Malayinkeezhu were initially in good spirits when the PWD decided to lay interlocking tiles on some stretches which had fallen into disrepair after heavy rains.

Every year on Onam, relatives and friends in Kerala send goodies and wishes to Malayalis settled in Kolkata. But this year, there has been a role reversal with the Malayali community here flagging off two consignments of relief to flood-ravaged Kerala, one by sea and the other by air.

Driving through the Karaparamba- Eranhipalam road is the city has become a nightmare for the motorists who have a harrowing time negotiating through frequent traffic blocks.

Students of Ponnara Government Model UP school had a narrow escape on Wednesday when the roof over the school's mess hall came crashing down barely minutes after their lunch break.

Until work for the Thakarapparambu flyover is complete, traders along the stretch will have to wait in patience as the non-motorable road has badly hit business.

Thakarapparambu flyover work is back on track.