Kerala’s waste makeover meets poll silence

[ad_1] A view of Kochi Corporation’s compressed biogas plant coming up at Brahmapuram. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Early in March 2023, a major fire engulfed the landfill at Brahmapuram, where much of the waste from the Kochi Corporation area and its surrounding municipalities used to end up. As the blaze continued to eat up […]

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Both LDF, UDF hopeful of helming Kochi Corporation

[ad_1] The Kochi Corporation remains a political and electoral enigma of sorts. The United Democratic Front (UDF) has been dominant in the Ernakulam Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies for long, but has not managed to replicate that success in the Corporation. In fact, after the first decade following the formation of the Corporation in 1969, […]

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LDF govt. and Kerala CM helping Centre cover up major corruption scandals, says K.C. Venugopal

[ad_1] The LDF government and the Chief Minister are at the forefront in helping the Centre cover up their major corruption scandals and in taking forward their politically motivated and communal agenda, according to All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary K.C. Venugopal, MP. When the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] itself comes forward […]

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Koyilandy MLA Kanathil Jameela passes away

[ad_1] Kanathil Jmeela | Photo Credit: K Ragesh Kanathil Jameela, Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] MLA for Koyilandy, passed away here on Saturday night. She was 59. Ms. Jameela had not been keeping well for some time. The death happened at a private hospital in Kozhikode city where she was undergoing treatment. Ms. Jameela, […]

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Thiruvananthapuram district school arts festival to begin at Attingal on December 1

[ad_1] The District School Arts Festival that was to be held at Attingal from November 25 to 29 will now be held from Monday, December 1. The festival will conclude on Friday. There has been a change in the venues too. Now, the festival will be held at seven schools, including Government Girls Higher Secondary […]

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RPF, GRP launch stringent measures to curb reckless railway track crossing

[ad_1] In response to a distressing surge in run-over incidents, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Government Railway Police (GRP) have come up with stringent measures to curb the reckless crossing of railway tracks under the Palakkad division of the Southern Railways. Squads are now conducting intensive flash checks around major railway stations following […]

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Rigorous prison term for official held on bribery charge

[ad_1] The Kottayam Vigilance Court on Saturday sentenced a former Assistant Engineer of the Kottayam municipality’s Kumaranalloor Zonal Office to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for demanding a bribe of ₹15,000 for issuing building permit. Delivering the verdict, Inquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance) K.V. Rejanish sentenced the accused, Martin Antony, to three years of […]

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Customs releases most of cars seized in Operation Numkhor

[ad_1] The Commissionerate of Customs Preventive, Kochi, has provisionally released a luxury car seized from actor Amit Chakkalakkal as part of Operation Numkhor, targeting a racket suspected of selling cars allegedly smuggled from Bhutan. The car was released to the actor recently under Section 110A of the Customs Act by which seized goods are provisionally […]

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