Tag: Kerala
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Kerala to use live streaming tech for tourism promotion
Kerala government is planning to use its own live streaming technology to tap tourists' experiential accounts of the destinations they visit. Considering its potential for tourism promotion in India, a group of young professionals from Kerala, with the support of state Tourism Department, is all set to explore live streaming as a major campaign tool …
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April 10, 2017 -
BJP-Oppn clash in Lok Sabha over political violence in Kerala
The BJP and the Left-Congress members were engaged in a verbal duel in the Lok Sabha after a member of the saffron party raised the issue of the “CPI(M)-sponsored terror” in Kerala and sought the state government's dismissal. During the Zero Hour, Poonam Mahajan raised the issue of a worker of the BJP's youth wing …
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April 7, 2017 -
Mobile App to help environmental conservation
The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala (IIITM-K) has launched a mobile app to track and gather data on the geographical distribution of flora and fauna, aimed at helping scientists and students in the fields of research and conservation. The biodiversity app, BIOTA, was developed by researchers at the C V Raman Laboratory …
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April 6, 2017 -
Nurse recruitment scam accused arrested in Kerala
Two years after the Rs 200 crore nurse recruitment scam surfaced in Kerala, the CBI on Wednesday morning arrested the skulking key accused M. Varghese Uthup here. After being picked up when he alighted from a Middle East flight here, Uthup told the media that he will reveal everything at the appropriate time. The 50-year-old …
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March 29, 2017 -
Thomas Chandy set to join Kerala cabinet
Thomas Chandy,69, is all set to become a minister in Kerala, following the resignation of his party colleague AK Saseendran. Saseendran on Sunday resigned after an audio emerged in which he was heard having a lewd conversation with a woman on the phone. Both Chandy and Saseendran belong to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the ally …
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March 27, 2017 -
Thomas Chandy set to join Kerala cabinet
Thomas Chandy,69, is all set to become a minister in Kerala, following the resignation of his party colleague AK Saseendran. Saseendran on Sunday resigned after an audio emerged in which he was heard having a lewd conversation with a woman on the phone. Both Chandy and Saseendran belong to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the ally …
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March 27, 2017 -
Kerala minister A K Saseendran quits over indecent talk
Kerala Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran resigned on Sunday after an audio emerged in which he is heard having a lewd conversation with a woman on phone. A five-time legislator from the Nationalist Congress Party, the minister announced the resignation at Kozhikode. The audio was released by Mangalam TV. Earlier, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the …
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March 26, 2017 -
Chandy, Chennithala cleared of nepotism charges
Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, his cabinet colleague Ramesh Chennithala and 11 other Congress-led UDF leaders were on Saturday cleared by the Kerala Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau (VACB) of nepotism charges. The VACB after a preliminary probe found that there was no misuse of official powers by Chandy and the others and none …
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March 25, 2017 -
Santosh Trophy: Kerala register win, Mizoram, Punjab in goalless draw
Kerala rode Joby Justin's hat-trick to beat Railways 4-2 in their opening Group B match of the Santosh Trophy national football championship here on Wednesday. Captain P. Usman completed the tally for Kerala, while Railways' Malayali player Rajesh netted both their goals. It was Railways who drew first blood as Rajesh scored in the 17th …
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March 15, 2017 -
CPI-M wants RSS leader booked for declaring bounty for killing Vijayan
The CPI-M on Saturday asked the party-led Kerala government to register a case against Madhya Pradesh RSS leader Kundan Chandrawat, who declared a Rs 1 crore bounty for beheading Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Addressing reporters here after a meeting, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said the Vijayan government has no option but to …
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March 4, 2017 -
Two injured in blasts at RSS office in Palakkad
Two people were injured after unidentified persons hurled bombs at an RSS office at Kallachi here on Thursday night, a police official said. "Two people have been injured and they have been taken to a hospital at Kozhikode. The police has begun the investigation," an official at the Nadapuram police station said. The immediate provocation …
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March 3, 2017 -
Two injured in blasts at RSS office in Palakkad
Two people were injured after unidentified persons hurled bombs at an RSS office at Kallachi here on Thursday night, a police official said. "Two people have been injured and they have been taken to a hospital at Kozhikode. The police has begun the investigation," an official at the Nadapuram police station said. The immediate provocation …
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March 3, 2017 -
Kerala govt announces 20 lakh free internet connections
Internet would be made the right of the people and two million "poor families" will get free access to the web, Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Issac said while presenting the budget for 2017-18 in the state assembly on Friday "Internet will now become a right for the people and within 18 months the internet gateway …
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March 3, 2017 -
Kerala govt announces 20 lakh free internet connections
Internet would be made the right of the people and two million "poor families" will get free access to the web, Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Issac said while presenting the budget for 2017-18 in the state assembly on Friday "Internet will now become a right for the people and within 18 months the internet gateway …
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March 3, 2017 -
Vijayan dismisses death threat, Yechury questions PM Modi
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday made it clear that he was not bothered by a RSS leader's offer of Rs. 1 crore to have him killed. "The RSS in the past has taken the heads of others but I have to move around and I will," said Vijayan in his characteristic style. But …
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March 2, 2017 -
30,000 engineers unemployed in Kerala
There were 30,719 unemployed engineering graduates in Kerala as on October 30, 2016 — up from 23,984 in 2015, the latest Economic Review for the state shows. The Economic Review for 2016 was tabled in the assembly on Thursday by state Finance Minister Thomas Issac, who will present the state budget for 2017-18 on Friday. Other work seekers …
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March 2, 2017 -
Kerala chief minister orders arrest of 2,010 goons in a month
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who also holds the Home portfolio, on Monday directed the state's 14 District Collectors to ensure the arrest of 2,010 goons listed by the intelligence wing in 30 days time. The directive came after the widespread criticism of the deteriorating law and order situation in the state from the opposition …
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February 20, 2017