The family of Arjun, the truck driver from Kannadikkal in Kozhikode who went missing in the landslip in Shirur, Karnataka, has expressed satisfaction over the way rescue operations are progressing there. Anju, Arjun’s sister, said here on Tuesday that they expected the search to go on until the whereabouts of Arjun were known and suggested…
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Kerala’s much-anticipated and decades-long dream of having an All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-like institution on its soil was dashed yet again when the proposal found no mention in the Union Budget 2024-25 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on…
The Kerala government has granted environmental clearance for runway correction work at Calicut airport necessitated after a probe into the 2020 Air India Express air crash that killed 21, the Centre informed Parliament. The expansion work is expected to be concluded by December 2025. The environmental clearance was awarded on July 11,2024, the Minister of…
A meeting of the District Panchayat Biodiversity Management Committee (DPBMC), chaired by district panchayat president Samshad Marakkar, decided to launch various projects to conserve and rejuvenate the biodiversity of Wayanad. The meeting decided to launch projects to conserve 40 sacred groves, beautify towns, and plant endemic and medicinal plants on river banks and dam sites…
Antony Joseph, 64, who died at a private hospital near his ancestral house at Cheranalloor on Sunday night was not just another successful entrepreneur. He and his firm Manorama Oxygen Private Limited proved a saviour to many gasping for breath during the height of the pandemic when oxygen cylinders were in short supply. Notwithstanding staff…
A still from Julien Menanteau and Nour Ben Salem’s Palestine Island. The long years of struggle of the Palestinians under the imperial occupying forces of Israel will be the focus of a package of films to be screened at the 16th edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), to be…
Schemes of the Social Justice department are not reaching the grassroots, the Kerala Assembly Committee on Estimates has found. The committee, headed by K.K. Shailaja, MLA, in its 15th report on the Social Justice department’s utilisation of Budget allocation says the department has managed to implement its activities only till the district level. The schemes…
Staff in protective gear attending to a patient at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, on Sunday. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh A 14-year-old boy from Chembrassery near Pandikkad in Malappuram district died of Nipah infection at the Government Medical College Hospital here on July 21 morning. Health Minister Veena George told the media at…
The annual feeding of some 60 elephants organised by Sree Vadakkumnathan Temple in Thrissur of Kerala drew a massive crowd as usual Source link
“It is a field of competition. The Indian marine industry has undergone several challenges in the past, and we must stand together to face and overcome them,” Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs and Fisheries George Kurian said here on Saturday. The Minister was speaking at the inauguration of the referral laboratory for Aquatic…
