In a significant move, the LDF government in Kerala decided on Wednesday to seek a CBI inquiry into the sensational Marad carnage in which nine persons were killed in a fishing hamlet at Kozhikode in 2003.
Police on Thursday unearthed 125 powerful crude bombs from a vacant plot at north Poilur, about 45 kms from Kannur.
Rejecting the charges of bias against opposition-ruled states like Kerala, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that he has taken special care to look into issues brought to him and there was no question of any discrimination.- Two persons, believed to be activists of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, were killed in a bomb explosion today at Cheruvanchery near the politically sensitive Thalassery town, about 35 km from Kannur, police said.
The death of four Keralites in encounters in Jammu and Kashmir in early October has confirmed the fears that militant outfits have strong links in the state getting cadres and support for anti-national operations by extremist outfits in far-flung areas.
The killing of four men from Kerala by security forces in far away Jammu and Kashmir has led to worried community leaders here introspecting on the hows and whys of terrorism striking root in their state.
With the death of four suspected Keralites in recent encounters in border areas in Jammu and Kashmir, police and Intelligence agencies have stepped up efforts to ascertain the links of extremist groups like SIMI and Indian Mujahideen with Kerala.
The day-long industrial strike called by Left trade unions on Wednesday brought West Bengal and Kerala came to a grinding halt.
The Kerala police on Sunday said that it had begun investigations two months back into a training camp organised in December 2007 by the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India in Kottayam district.
Kerala opposition leader Oomen Chandy on Tuesday said that he has cancelled his proposed trip to Australia and Singapore as his party will intensify protests for the withdrawal of a controversial Class 7 social science textbook.
A phone call from Pakistan to a Karnataka journalist, claiming there would be serial blasts in Kerala on Sunday, has sent the police and the government machinery into a tizzy.- Several religious groups cutting across political affiliations on Monday met Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan to demand the recall of a class VII text book, which they allege tries to indoctrinate children with the communist ideology.
More and more people with cardiac ailments in Kerala - where heart diseases account for over 40 percent of all deaths - are opting for a non-surgical procedure called enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP).
Normal life came to a grinding halt in Left-ruled West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura on Thursday as the ruling fronts in these states enforced a dawn-to-dusk bandh in protest against the steep hike in petroleum products.
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With the monsoon rains descending on Kerala, creating just the right cool and balmy atmosphere, health resorts and clinics in the southern Indian state are ready with their ayurveda packages to pamper and heal tourists.
While regular hoopsters struggle to get noticed, 'roller-basketball', with its swiftness and speed, is gaining wide acceptance among youngsters and school children in Kerala.
The second edition of the 46-day Grand Kerala Shopping Festival, to start later this year, would promote the traditional and tribal crafts of the state.
Kerala, home of renowned sports stars like sprint queen P T Usha and fast bowler S Sreesanth, is all set to have an exclusive sports academy for girls at the sleepy town of Kumbalam near Kochi, to train sportswomen to attain Olympic standards.
You have heard of desktops and laptops, but now two engineering students in Kerala have come up with a virtual computer that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. All it needs is an internet connection.
In a rare honour for an Indian, US space agency NASA has named a 'minor' planet after a Kerala zoology professor Sainudeen Pattazhy in appreciation of his environmental research and campaigns.
Preference for a particular variety of rice is making the southern districts of Kerala pay a hefty premium for their staple diet.
An enquiry report has said that Kerala MP P V Abdul Wahab had entered the cockpit of an Indian Airlines flight at Kozhikode airport on April 7 even as Wahab said on Monday he would not apologise for his alleged misbehaviour towards the flight's pilot.
People across Kerala thronged temples on Monday to celebrate 'Vishu' - New Year's Day by the Malayalam calendar. Praying on this day is believed to bring good luck and fortune for the coming year.The Congress-led opposition in Kerala decided to observe May 18, the second anniversary of the ruling Left Democratic Front government, as betrayal day.
Kerala on Wednesday announced a compensation of Rs. 10,000 per hectare to all paddy farmers who lost their crop during the rains that lashed the state earlier this month.
