Kerala News Headlines

Another male bastion in the Indian Navy will fall Friday when two women will be inducted as navigators in the flying branch, in a way also becoming the first women combatants in the armed forces.

He could well have been discovered by John Le Carre. He came from Barack Obama's hometown, an Islamist at heart with a Christian name who claimed to be a Jew. His mission was to cause mayhem in India. As he remains in an American prison, Indian detectives are slowly uncovering David Coleman Headley's silent but vital role in the horrific Mumbai terror attack.

Diana Kurian turned 27. And who may this unfamiliar person be? Diana Kurian is in fact very familiar down south by the name Nayantara. The actress who has appeared in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films celebrated her 27th birthday yesterday. She is known for her fabulous acting skills and all the controversy she attracts. Anyway, we wish her a belated happy twenty-seventh!

Known for doing a lot of stage shows with Mammootty and Mohanlal, actress Aparna Nair is almost finished with shooting a Tamil film, Edhuvum Nadakkum. The movie was shot in various locales, one of them being a Cochin island. The movie, a love story, is almost done and will release soon.

Four swine flu deaths, three of them from Rajasthan, were reported Wednesday, taking the total toll in India to 534, health authorities said here.

The winter session of parliament got off to a chaotic start Thursday with the Lok Sabha being adjourned for the day as the entire opposition united to stage noisy protests against the new sugarcane pricing policy of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

The winter session of parliament got off to a chaotic start Thursday with the Lok Sabha being adjourned for the day as the entire opposition united to stage noisy protests against the new sugarcane pricing policy.

That actress Kavya Madhavan is returning to Malayalam films with Christian Brothers is old news. According to sources, she has also been signed on for the film, Pramaani by director B Unnikrishnan, opposite Mammootty. The film will have Mammootty playing a corrupt Panchayat leader whose few good qualities are seen by the female lead. The news is yet to be confirmed.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned Thursday, the opening day of the winter session of parliament, when the entire opposition united to oppose the new sugarcane pricing policy.

Tamil Nadu's major opposition party AIADMK plans to put the central ministers belonging to the ruling DMK on the mat by mainly raising issues handled by them during the winter session of parliament that begins Thursday, a party MP said Wednesday.