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CPM thugs killed CPI activist

Kollam:Local trade union leader of CPI, DilipKumar (43) was killed by a gang of CITU thugs in Kadakkal ,near Kollam.Hartal was observed in the area. CPM thugs had started to unleash…

Kerala BJP,to fast first in J&K

Thiruvananthapuram:A 50-member team from Kerala will be the first to go on a fast in Jammu and Kashmir breaking the curfew on June 7 against the ethnic cleansing in the…

Petition against CPM leaders: HC gives more time

Pioneer News Service | Kochi A division bench of the Kerala High Court granted more time for the Central Government to file a statement regarding their stand in the writ…

Security increased for Amma

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Police increased security of Amma at Kaimanam Ashram following the arrest of a Islamic Terrorist from the Ashram.The terrorist named Niyaz who pretended as Dooradarsan Official was arrested yesterday…

Brouhaha over nuns, priests enrolment

Pioneer News Servic | Kochi Heated arguments took place in the bar council meeting on Sunday over the enrolment of nuns and priests. Members moved a resolution against the bar…

Kamala Suraya’s publicity stunt

                 Kamala Surayya’s checkered personal history, egoistic needs and egocentric behavior, addiction for public attention has set her apart from other writers. For several years, her fantasy fired the imagination…

Amrita Varsham in Trivandrum

Amrita Varsham in Trivandrum

  18 May 2006 – kaimanam, Trivandrum, Kerala On the first night of Amma’s Trivandrum Brahmasthanam Festival, P. Parameswaran, the Director of Bharatiya Vichara Kendra, and Vellappilli Nateshan, the General…

RSS karyalaya under attack

Thalassery The RSS karyalaya was attacked on Thursday by a group of CPM workers over here. The RSS karyalaya near Thalassery Temple gate,Jaganatha Mandiram  was under attack. The attack came…

Islamic terrorist arrested from Amma’s ashram

Thiruvananthapuram: Police arrested one Islamic Terrorist named Niyaz,while   attempting to gain access into a restricted area inside the Kaimanam ashram of Mata Amritanandamayi .   He was posing as a Central Government employee.Police is investigating…

Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s Home ministership panics Kannur

Pioneer News Service | Kozhikode Kannur district is one of the political hot spots of the State. In the Achuthanandan cabinet there are two ministers from the district , Kodiyeri…

Amma Blesses Mobile Tele-Medicine Unit

Amma Blesses Mobile Tele-Medicine Unit

16th,May Today Amma blessed AIMS Hospital’s new  “mobile medical unit.” The unit will bring the state-of-the-art medical care of AIMS to rural areas via its satellite. Dr. Prem Nair, the…

Paedophile Pastor absconding

Thiruvalla:Pastor Rengith Thomas who Molested 3 girls is absconding now as per Police officials.This paedophile Pastor molested three orphan girls of ages 21/2,4 and 7.They were inmates of an Orphanage in Thiruvalla.…

Crime branch to probe muder of RSS leader

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala police have transferred the investigation of the brutal murder of  Sunil Kumar to Crime Branch. The RSS leader from Kilimanoor was hacked to death,allegedly by Islamist terrorists last tuesday.Seven-member  armed…

Explosives seized from Thamarassery

Explosives seized www.newindpress.com KOZHIKODE: Thamarassery police, on Sunday, seized huge quantity of materials meant for making explosives from an autorickshaw during a routine traffic checking.According to police, the seized materials…

Seminar in honour of Akhitham

Thrissur: A two-day seminar on Renaiassance, National Liberation and Literature has been planned in connection with the 80th birth anniversary of poet Akitham Achuthan Namboodiri on May 20 at Edappal…

Kerala election result:Differing realities

The kerala election is over. The LDF (communist/Islamic alliance) won the election with less than fifty percent of votes (48.63%). LDF margin over UDF is only 5.65%. The election set…

Return of People’s Police Scheme feared with LDF’s comeback

Pioneer News Service | Kochi With the LDF capturing power in the State, the People’s Police Scheme (PPS), which many allege as a move to politicise the police and use…

BJP blames its defeat on Muslim extremists

The public support to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has improved since the last Assembly election of 2001, State party president Sreedharan Pillai has claimed. The party would go forward…

Swami Chinmayananda’s statue unveiled

Statue unveiled KANNUR: A bronze statue of Swami Chinmayananda was unveiled at the Chinmaya Institute of Technology as part of the 90th birth anniversary of the swami. Leela Group Chairman…

NDF : The deadly Islamic terrorist organization

The ‘National Development’ Front (NDF), an Islamic terrorist organization was established in 1993 and soon made use of the rebellion of Muslim hoodlums and social scum. Soon NDF got the…

Sunil Kumar, victim of NDF-CPI(M) conspiracy

Sunil Kumar, victim of NDF-CPI(M) conspiracy

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: RSS leader Sunil Kumar who was murdered in a gruesome manner on Tuesday morning is yet another victim of the evil designs being hatched by the CPI(M) and the…

Hartal complete and peaceful

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by RSS and BJP  in protest against the murder of RSS district seva pramukh N Sunil Kumar was complete. Shops remained closed in the state…

Shiv Sena men storm into Maldives Consulate in TVM

TVM:A group of Shiv Sena activists stormed into the premises of  Maldivian consulate in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. The timely intervention of police avoided any untoward incidents. The only foreign mission in…

Protest marches against killing of RSS worker

 Kochi, May 09 The VHP State Organising Secretary, Mr Kummanam Rajasekharan strongly condemned the killing of the Attingal District Seva Pramukh and Hindu Aikya Vedi District Organising Secretary Mr Sunil…

BJP to observe hartal tomorrow

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP will observe a dawn to dusk hartal in the state capital tomorrow in protest against the gruesome murder of RSS activist Sunil Kumar. Milk, dailies and hospitals…

RSS leader brutally murdered at Thiruvananthapuram

RSS leader brutally murdered at Thiruvananthapuram

Kilimanoor (TVM) : In the early hours of Tuesday, RSS leader and Chirayankeezhu Taluk Kaaryavaha, Sunil Kumar(36)was brutally murdered by a group of assailants. They came in a Qualis van and…

BJP confident of Manjeswaram, Pallakad wins

Pioneer News Service | Kozhikode The BJP is confident it will win “at least two seats” in the State this Assembly elections this time around. “As per our party feedback,…

Chembai music fest

PALAKKAD: The 92nd Chembai Ekadasi Carnatic Music Festival began on Sunday at Chembai village in Kottayi – the birth place of music doyen Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar.The music festival was inaugurated…

Steel bombs, swords recovered

KOZHIKODE: Police on Sunday recovered three steel bombs and half-a-dozen swords from various places under the Nadapuram police limits.Police said the steel bombs were found buried in a deserted narrow…

BMS Dharna on Tuesday

Kochi: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) will conduct a dharna at 4.00 pm at Boat Jetty Junction on Tuesday demanding withdrawal of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill. BMS office-bearers…

RSS OTC camp begins

 Kochi, May 07 The Travancore Devaswom Board President, Mr G Raman Nair exhorted the Hindus to be vigilant against the organised move to thwart the development of Sabarimala.  Inagurating the…

MGS remarks on Karl Marx flayed

MALAPPURAM: Historian M.S. Jayaprakash has taken exception to certain remarks made by M.G.S. Narayanan on Karl Marx during a seminar organised by the Sanathana Dharma Chair of Calicut University recently.In…

HC defers hearing on PIL on Marad report

A division bench of the Kerala High Court deferred the hearing on the public interest litigation (PIL) seeking publishing of Marad Judicial Inquiry Commission report until the court reopens after…

Amma opens Brahmasthanam festival, blesses devotees

The festival of the year at the Brahmasthanam Temple at Edappally here got to a great start on Friday with Mata Amritanandamayi lighting the traditional lamp on Friday. Much to…

A brilliant year of The Pioneer in Kerala

Arun Lakshman The Pioneer thanks its readers and well-wishers in Kerala as it completes one year of publication in God’s Own Country. It was exactly a year ago The Pioneer…

Fireworks explosion death toll rises to 7

Kochi, May 5 The latest reports have put the death toll in the explosion at a fireworks manufacturing unit at Pudukkad near Thrissur yesterday, at seven following three more workers succumbing…

Petition seeks publishing of Marad report

A public interest litigation, seeking a direction to the Kerala Government to publish the report of the Marad Judicial Enquiry Commission, which probed the May 2003 riots that claimed nine…

Amma to camp in Kochi for three days

Mata Amritanandamayi will camp for a three-day festival at Brahmasthanam temple at Kunnumpuram near Edappally here from Friday to Sunday. She will reach Kochi from New York where she received…

Great loss to the country:O.Rajagopal

Former Union minister of state for Railways O Rajagopal said that Mahajan’s death was a great loss to the country as he was one of the most promising young leaders…

Final phase of poll ends in Kerala

Thiruvananthapuram, May 3 Seventy per cent polling reported in the last and final phase of Assembly elections in Kerala, covering 15 constituencies in Kannur and Kasargode districts concluded at 1700…

3rd anniversary of Maradu Killings

It was on May 2nd 2003, the Islamic Fanatics Killed 8 Hindu Fisherman of Maradu.Meetings were organized in different parts of Kerala under Hindu organisations,in memory of eight Hindu Men who died just…

Government scuttling Sabarimala project: BJP

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP state president P S Sreedharan Pillai has alleged that the government was trying to scuttle the Sabarimala development project by reversing its earlier order to release substitute land…

BJP not troubled by pre-poll predictions

State BJP president PS Sreedharan Pillai has refused to take seriously the exit polls, which projected the BJP as a big loser in the Assembly election. He said there was…

Congress, CPI leaders in Kerala joined BJP

Kochi : Congress leader and former President of Varkadi Panchayath, Jayalakshmi Bhatt, Congress Manjeswaram Mandalam Vice President Subramanya Bhatt, CPI leader and formal Block Member Tulasi, and CPI workers, Suresh,…

Suryanarayana killing : Kerala BJP organised Protest day

Kochi : The BJP today organised a ‘Protest day’ in the state on the killing of Suryanarayana by the Islamic militants in Afghanistan. BJP state President Mr. Sridharan Pillai alleged…

All eyes on Palakkad

PALAKKAD: Political pundits are keeping their fingers crossed as to whether the BJP will be able to open its account in the state by wresting the Palakkad Assembly constituency. With…

Elections waterloo for UDF:Pillai

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 28 Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) today said that the Kerala Assembly elections would be a “waterloo” for the United Democratic Front(UDF), especially to the Congress, and it was this…

M.I Shanavaz leading shady deal

ERNAKULAM: In a startling revelation, the ‘Kesari’ weekly has come out with details of a shady deal involving KPCC General Secretary M I Shanawaz. The deal is related to the…

BJP renews demand for CBI probe into Marad riots

Kerala State BJP president PS Sreedharan Pillai has reiterated his demand for a CBI probe into the 2003 Marad riots. He also asked the Kerala Government to publish the findings…

BJP will open account:Sreedharan Pillai

 Kochi, Apr 27 The BJP President, Mr P S Sreedharan Pillai today said that the party’s candidates in several constituencies have a chance to win. The party, he told reporters here,…