Kasaragod, India News

BANGALORE: The Kannada Development Authority has organised a weeklong convention on linguistic harmony at Kasaragod and cultural programmes in dance, drama, poetry, films and other sectors in 10 places of Kasaragod district in Kerala, commencing from Saturday.

MANGALORE: A team from the Puttur Town police station on Wednesday tracked down a three-month-old infant that had been stolen from its mother and sold to a childless family in Paivalike village of Kasaragod district in Kerala.

Thrissur: Preparations are on to welcome a 'cultural yatra', organised by the Culture Department and various cultural organisations, that will pass through Thrissur on January 15.

MYSORE: Members of Apoorva Kalavidaru from Kasaragod staged Male Ninta Mele , a play conceived of by Rathnakara Mulimane and directed by M. Umesh Salian, here on Saturday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Election Commission of India has dropped the complaint about alleged violation of the model code of conduct for the byelections by Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan.

KOLLAM: The Susthira Vikasana Yatra of the Janasree Mission from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram, led by Congress leader M.M. Hassan, will enter Kollam on Sunday at Pathanapuram for a three-day campaign in the district.

Kasaragod: People exposed to pesticide Endosulfan in Kasaragod district continue to suffer.

Thiruvananthapuram: In what is seen as a huge setback for Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front , the Election Commission of India yesterday directed the state government to shift a top district administrator.

MANGALORE: Officers of the Puttur subdivision of the Dakshina Kannada Police on Wednesday nabbed a 46-year-old man who, the police said, has confessed to murdering 18 women by poisoning them with cyanide.

'Tourist spots in district not properly maintained' Kozhikode: Home and Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has asked officials to complete tourism projects estimated at Rs.300 crore in the Malabar region this financial year.

KANNUR: Allahabad Bank chairman and managing director K.R. Kamath has said that the bank is on an expansion spree in the south.

Words spur action: Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam speaking at the annual convocation ceremony of the NIT-C in the city on Thursday.

KOCHI: The Bharat Darshan Tourist Train, operated by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited for tourists, will enter the State on November 30.

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 10: The 'love jihad,' allegedly planned by Muslim youths would lead to serious communal riots in Kerala, Bharatiya Janata Party state president P K Krishna Das said today.

TAPPING THE POTENTIAL: Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan takes a look at the facilities at the Koratty information technology park near Thrissur on Saturday.

Senior CPI-M leader M Ramanna Rai, who represented the Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency for three terms, died on Tuesday at a private hospital due to age related ailments, family sources said.

KANNUR/MANGALORE: Former MP from Kasargod and Communist Party of India leader M. Ramanna Rai died in a hospital in Kasaragod at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday.

ALAPPUZHA: Sudhakanth, Judicial First Class Magistrate , Cherthala, on Monday, issued a bailable arrest warrant against Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, Communist Party of India-Marxist State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, CPI MP from Kasaragod P. Karunakaran, and Desabhimani daily reporter Jayapradeep in connection with a defamation case.

New Delhi, Oct 3 : Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Fisheries K V Thomas today pooh-poohed the Marxist Party's "human chain" protest in Kerala against the Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN as politically motivated or due to ignorance of the provisions of the agreement.

Chain of protest: Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac, CPI district secretary C.B. Chandrababu and others form part of a human chain forged by the CPI in Alappuzha on Friday.