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A lower court in the state capital city on Friday found two youths in the famed beach destination Kovalam guilty of murdering a Latvian woman who had arrived here in April 2018 as a tourist.

The investigators probing the Mangaluru cooker blast case have turned their focus towards detecting the Kerala connections with the suspected terrorist Mohammad Shariq, sources said on Thursday.

The colleagues of the couple and the owner of the firm where they work were at the forefront to solemnise the wedding.

All the 44 pilgrims, travelling in the vehicle, were rescued and shifted to nearby hospitals, district administration officials here said.

By calling for a fresh assembly session in December which will spill over to January, the CPI(M) will succeed in preventing Khan from delivering the customary Governor's address.

Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Wednesday taking the conflict here to an entirely different level with politically coloured allegations that have rarely come from the Raj Bhavan.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala cabinet, on Wednesday, decided to bring in an Ordinance to remove Governor Arif Mohammed Khan as the chancellor of Universities in the state. For long, the two leaders have been engaged in a tussle that started with Khan objecting to the appointment of Vijayan’s private secretary K.K.Ragesh’s wife Priya Varghese at the […]

Thiruvananthapuram: A day after various youth organisations criticised the Kerala government for raising the retirement age of state PSU employees to 60, the weekly cabinet meeting held here on Wednesday under Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan decided to freeze the October 29 order. According to sources, Vijayan himself expressed his concern that the decision to raise […]

Thiruvananthapuram: The Crime branch police, probing the case of a 22-year-old woman poisoning her lover on October 14, has arrested her mother and uncle in connection with the case. The two have been charged with destruction of evidence. While in police custody, Greeshma attempted suicide by consuming disinfectant, just before she was to be taken […]

Kotapalli Sub-Inspector B Venkat said the body of Father Tony Samson (32) was found around 10.30 pm in the river near Kollur village in Kotapalli mandal ,about six kilometers away from the spot where he was swept away

Mancherial: The body of one of the two priests belonging to Kerala, who drowned in the Godavari, was traced and retrieved on Monday. The priests were swept away while they were having a bath in the river at Errayipet village in Kotapalli mandal on Sunday. Chennur Rural Inspector Ch Vidyasagar and Kotapalli Sub-inspector B Venkat […]

Thiruvananthapuram: State Education Minister V.Sivankutty on Wednesday launched the portal and guidelines of the third edition of Haritha Vidyalayam Educational Reality Show for Kerala schools. The show will be telecast in KITE VICTERS channel from December onwards and the Prize money for the schools for the first, second and third places would be Rs 20 […]

Pookunju, on October 12, began his day as usual and while on the way to collect the fish which he sells during the day, he bought an Akshaya lottery ticket which had a first prize of Rs 70 lakh.

Deputy Superintendent of Police in Pathanamthitta, S Nandakumar confirmed that the accused woman identified as Shobhana alias Vasanti, was arrested on Thursday for performing occult rituals in which children were forced to participate.

The police officials, according to sources, have decided to reopen 12 cases in which women from the district have gone missing from 2017 onwards.

The accused couple -- Bhagaval Singh and his wife Laila --used to run a massage centre near Aranmula in Pathanamthitta district in their house. Their agent Mohammed Shafi had in June and September, brought the two women to the house, where they were brutally murdered by the couple.

Jeddah: In a case of mistaken identity, bodies of two NRIs who died in Saudi Arabia got interchanged, leading to the cremation of a man from Uttar Pradesh in Kerala. The bereaved family in Uttar Pradesh was not able to have a glimpse of their loved one as the body went by mistake to Kerala. […]

Kasaragod: A decades-old lone crocodile, claimed to be a vegetarian, that inhabited the lake at the Sri Ananthapadmanabha Swamy temple here and often found roaming inside its premises was found dead late on Sunday night. Temple officials told PTI that the crocodile, fondly called Babia, was missing since Saturday. Thereafter, the carcass was found floating […]

A day after nine people, including five schoolchildren, were killed in a road accident on the Thrissur-Palakkad highway, officials of both -- the Motor Transport department and the Kerala Police -- are on a high alert and have started a thorough inspection.

The horrific road accident occurred after the tourist bus rear-ended into the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus.