Short on power, big on promises

Tuesday 29 May '07

Even as Kerala is poised to begin its biggest and most energy-guzzling development surge in decades

Now VS, Vijayan praise party rap

Monday 28 May '07

The two feuding CPI(M) leaders suspended from the Politburo yesterday for failing to stop slamming each other in public, went out of their way...

VS-Pinarayi war has split Kerala CPM for over a decade

Sunday 27 May '07

It Is going to take a whole lot more than Prakash Karat’s impending firefighting tour of Kerala for the deeply riven CPI(M) to put its act together, and the after tremors are bound to throw the party into its deepest crisis in years.

Demolitions widen Kerala cracks, party may step in

Friday 25 May '07

When the CPI(M) Politburo meets in New Delhi tomorrow, one of the items that is likely to be on the agenda is the running feud between Kerala..

CPM, Oppn scramble for slice of VS Munnar pie

Tuesday 22 May '07

Forget the lameduck Chief Minister of a few months ago, plaintively helpless in a Cabinet full of party rivals and overlooked even in many of the...

Now playing in Kerala hill resort: demolition tourism

Saturday 19 May '07

Nobody is talking about promoting demolition-tourism yet in this hill resort. But for many more weeks to come, the town’s milling crowds of honeymooners

Munnar: VS cedes little to Pinarayi, has his way

Thursday 17 May '07

The near-crisis in the Kerala CPM in the wake of the stand-off between Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan and CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan over the Munnar land grab issue...

Cabinet to decide if VS men will clean Munnar

Wednesday 16 May '07

While the warring factions in Kerala CPI(M) by state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan remain desperate to avert a direct collision over the Munnar...

Another twist in nun murder case

Saturday 12 May '07

The mystery surrounding the 15-year-old suspected rape-cum-murder of a young Catholic nun in Kerala that still has the CBI running in circles has deepened further...

VS announces Munnar clean-up

Thursday 10 May '07

The state Cabinet today backed Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan’s move to pull all stops to rid Munnar of encroachments.

Infected in Kerala hospital, 38 newborns die in 4 months

Thursday 3 May '07

At least 38 new-born babies who died at the Government Sri Avittam Thirunal Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram...

Catholic centre: LDF now all for a probe

Wednesday 2 May '07

With the Kerala High Court appointing a Special Investigation Team to probe the goings on at the Divine Retreat Centre at Muringoor and registered a case against its top 10 functionaries...

Left shuns ideologues, gets Mammootty to open meet

Tuesday 1 May '07

Mammootty, ageing superstar of Malayalam movies, may have been keeping carefully clear of doing either a Shabana Azmi-Jaya Bhaduri-Sunil Dutt kind of political act

After Red strike, mill land in CPM kitty

Saturday 28 April '07

The latest achievement of the Rs 4,000-crore CPI(M) Inc in Kerala could be the envy of many corporate honchos.

CPM sacks party poet, nothing can be verse than a witty comrade

Friday 27 April '07

Kerala poet Umesh Babu purged after he lampooned his party’s paranoia and culture of committee meetings

VS approves reworked Smart City plan

Thursday 26 April '07

The Left government in Kerala has approved the reworked conditions for setting up of the Rs 1,500-crore Smart City in Kochi with Dubai’s Technology and Media Free Zone

Kerala fast-tracks intl airport at Kannur

Saturday 21 April '07

The state government has decided to fast-track acquisition of another 2,000 acres of land for Kannur airport.

’92 nun ‘rape’: Lab report to be probed

Thursday 19 April '07

A case related to the mysterious death of a nun in 1992 received a new twist today with a Thiruvanantapuram court finding prima facie indications that the report of the pathological examination done to ascertain rape had been tampered with.

CPM sleepless over yagya in Left heartland

Wednesday 18 April '07

In Kannur, a Marxist heartland where hundreds of CPI(M) and RSS men have regularly killed and maimed each other over the years in bloody turf wars...

HC rejects Paloli’s apology

Saturday 14 April '07

The Kerala High Court on Friday decided to proceed with its suo motu case of criminal defamation against senior CPI(M) leader...

Now pooram won’t be a mammoth affair

Friday 13 April '07

The Thrissur pooram, Kerala’s iconic temple festival of international fame, will lack some of its charm from now on.

Kerala to update backwards list

Thursday 12 April '07

The Kerala Cabinet today decided to ask its Planning and Statistics department to do a comprehensive socio-economic survey of backward communities

Kerala’s Muslim groups unite against fundamentalist NDF

Wednesday 11 April '07

For the first time, almost all Muslim political and community organisations of consequence in Kerala are burying their quarrels...

In Kerala’s rice bowl, comrades hammer it to farmers: stick to sickle, machines make profits

Tuesday 10 April '07

In Kerala’s once-acclaimed rice bowl, Kuttanad, comrades are making sure farmers stick to the good old sickle just as their forefathers did, and avoid all modern “bourgeois farm machines”.

On Baker street

Sunday 8 April '07

Brick walls that go without plaster, doors and windows that let the light stream in and houses that are quake resistant. This is the legacy Laurie Baker has left in the villages of Kerala and the hills of Uttarakhand.