Kerala News Headlines

Kochi (Kerala) Jan 7 (IANS) There has been a mixed response in Kerala to the suggestions made by the law reforms commission, which will submit its report later this month. Among other reforms, the commission has asked for a change in the marriage customs practiced by the Muslim community and appointment of non-Brahmins as temple priests.

Former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy disagrees with veteran party leader K. Karunakaran's suggestion to include the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).

A team of the vigilance department raided the office of the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) Monday, three days after a corruption case was registered against the sports body, a senior official said.

The Congress unit in Kerala Saturday ruled out the possiblity of admitting the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) into the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF).

Munnar (Kerala) Jan 3 (IANS) Exactly this day 75 years ago, India's best-known birdman Salim Ali started a survey that is still considered a benchmark in ornithology. A group of bird lovers is restarting the same survey from the same spot Saturday.

The former navy chief who initiated India's new marine academy in this imposing mountainous region on a seashore in Kerala says he was not informed about the school being inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday.

The Kerala High Court Tuesday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team investigating the 1992 murder of Sister Abhaya to continue with the probe.

Technopark officials here are finalising the master plan for the first district level IT park in Kerala, to come up at Kundara near Kollam.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly selling six specimens of a protected species of barn owls near here.

The state vigilance department Friday registered a case against office-bearers and others of the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) after a cricket enthusiast complained to a special court about several incidents of corruption in the body.