Kerala News Headlines

Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Gurudas Dasgupta Monday said shifting ministerial portfolios would do "no good" to the country, as the veteran leftist accused the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of failing to tackling terrorism.

A visibly angry father of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, the National Security Guard (NSG) commando killed while battling terrorists in Mumbai, refused to meet the Kerala chief minister and home minister Sunday night and asked them to leave his home.

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has been given additional charge of the home ministry following the resignation of Shivraj Patil in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack, a Congress leader said Sunday.

Sandeep Unnikrishnan, a National Security Guard (NSG) commando who Friday laid down his life fighting the terrorists in Mumbai, was all set to visit his ancestral home in Kerala next month.

Among the things former prime minister V.P. Singh, who passed away Thursday, would be remembered for is declaring the Trivandrum airport here as an international airport.

The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has agreed to ferry on a daily basis the 2,000 professionals employed at the campus here of information technology (IT) major Infosys.

Members of the Kerala tourism industry, already reeling under the impact of the global economic crisis, fear their losses will mount as foreign tourists are likely to stay away in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Mumbai.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will kick-start campaigning in Kerala for the impending Lok Sabha polls Dec 14.

The Kerala Assembly Friday paid homage to former prime minister V.P. Singh, who died in New Delhi after battling a kidney ailment for several years. The house was later adjourned for the day.

Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Thursday informed the assembly that the police has been told to maintain high alert across the state following terror attacks in Mumbai that began Wednesday night and left at least 101 people dead and 250 others injured.