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Hindutva would be the main plank : BJP

Alappuzha: Bharateeya Janata Party – Kerala has decided to launch a massive groundwork across Kerala before the assembly election due in April – May 2006. The party has already decided…

Hindu convention begins on bank of river Pampa

The 94th Hindu religious convention (Sanathana Dharma Parishad) began at Ayiroor Cherukolpuzha on the banks of the River Pampa near here on Sunday.   Inaugurating the week-long meet, Paropakarini Sabha…

Mould a generation speaking about heritage: Ranga Hari

Mavelikara : The teachers should persevere to mould a generation which would think and speak about the heritage and culture of the country, according to the former All India Boudhik…

Bright future for BJP : CKP

Kochi : Hindutva visioned by the Great Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya is the foundation stone of the BJP and there would not be any watering down of it, according to Mr…

BJP State council meets in Ambalapuzha

Kochi : The BJP’s state council, which is meeting at Ambalapuzha today, would chalk out the party’s electoral strategy for the coming assembly elections.   According to Party President, Mr…

Bin Laden the hero of arrested NDF activists?

Alapuzha, Feb 10   The NDF extremists’ alleged inclination towards terrorism has been  cemented further when the police has recovered three mobile phones having the picture of the notorious Al-Qaida…

Remove Education portfolio from IUML:Adhyapaka Parishad

 Alapuzha, Feb 10 The National Teachers Union (NTU) Kerala State President, Mr P Gopalankutty Master, has demanded that the Education portfolio should be taken away from the Muslim League as under…

Jawan cremated with full military honours

ALAPPUZHA: The body of slain soldier of the Assam Rifles Anilkumar alias Unni was cremated with full military honours on his house premises in Karuvatta on Wednesday night.His elder son…

CPM-Cong unholy nexus exposed: BJP

Pioneer News Service/ Thiruvananthapuram The BJP has taken exception to the United Democratic Front (UDF) Government’s stand that a CBI investigation is not needed into the controversial SNC Lavalin deal…

Communal intolerance on the rise in Alappuzha

Pioneer News Service/ Alappuzha Communalism, fundamentalism and arms training are rearing their ugly heads in Alappuzha district.  The recent police action in Mannancherry, near Alappuzha town, points to the fact…

Table CAG report in Assembly: Rajagopal

KANNUR: BJP national council member and former Union minister O. Rajagopal has urged the state government to table the final report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the…

HAV demands investigation by special police team

Kochi, Feb 08 The State President of the Hindu Aikya Vedi, Mr J Sisupalan has demanded that the activities of the NDF like extremist organisations should be investigated by special…

Entertainment events face extremists’ ire

KASARGOD: The extremist youths here are turning intolerant towards some public cultural programmes. The entertainment events organised by an English medium school at Naya Bazar in Uppla near here on…

Sabarimala shrine to open on Feb 12

Thiruvananthapuram: The Sabarimala temple will be opened for five days from February 12 for the poojas of the Malayalam month of Kumbham. Besides the normal poojas, the padi pooja at…

Alapuzha:Islamic terrorism on rise

Alapuzha, Feb 7 The Police have rounded up 15 NDF extremists along with Marad model swords and petrol bombs from the house of an extremist at Ambanakulangara near Mannachery in…

Cong, CPM vying to woo Muslim voters

Pioneer News Service/ Thiruvananthapuram The coming days shall witness an intense wooing of Muslim votes by the Congress and the CPI(M) , as they account for over 23 per cent…

Minorities sideline Hindus-Nateshan

 Kochi, Feb 06 If social justice were to be implemented in Kerala there should have to be single party rule in the state, according to Mr Vellapally Natesan, General Secretary,…

Prof Guptan Nair is no more

 Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 6 Eminent Malayalam litterateur, Professor S Guptan Nair, who has contributed immensely to the cultural and literary field for over five decades, died in a hospital here today. He was…

After the fall, its tough times ahead for Chandy

Pioneer News Service/ Thiruvananthapuram The slip in Davos could not have been more ill-timed for Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who had lined up a number of mega projects to…

Alapuzha:Terrorists arrested with weapons

Alapuzha:A group of 15 NDF terrorists,  were arrested yesterday by Kerala police from Mannanchery near Alapuzha.They were arrested with petrol bombs, swords, Iron rods etc and is believed to be on the…

BJP leader escapes unhurt in shooting

Palakkad, Feb 05 The BJP Palakkad Mandalam President, Mr V Vishnudevan, has escaped unhurt in an alleged assassination attempt by unidentified persons. Mr Vishnudevan, who is running a Ration Depot…

Muslim ministers embarrassed on wicklamp

 Kochi, Feb 05 Again the wick-lamp has landed the Muslim ministers of Kerala in an embarrassing situation. The venue was the inaugural function of the International Education Mela. The Kerala…

Brahmin federation threatens to form political party

From Mahadev Kochi, Feb 05 The All India Brahmin Federation (AIBF) would form a political party if the political parties continued to ignore the community and to protect their interests.…

Visual Media workshop held at Amrita School

KOCHI: A galaxy of veteran journalists shared their experiences and knowledge with the students of the Department of Visual Media, Amrita School of Applied Arts and Sciences at Kochi during…

BJP to try alliance with NSS,SNDP

 Kochi, Feb 03 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to hammer out a political alliance with the two major Hindu organisations in Kerala the SNDP and the NSS before…

Vigilance inquiry on Sabarimala mess

 Kochi, Feb 03 The Kerala High Court has directed the Director of Vigilance to hold an inquiry in to the accounts maintained by the Travancore Devaswom Board relating to the…

Amma leaves for Bharata yatra

03 February 2006, Amritapuri Amma left Amritapuri today at 8.30 a.m. for her annual Bharata Yatra. For the next two months the ashram will be on wheels, driving in nine…

US evangelist leaves country

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: David Terrell, the American evangelist who had been barred by the police from preaching following a visa row, has left the country, police said.The police said Terrell, his secretary…

US Evangelist banned from preaching

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 2 An American evangelist, David Terrel, who has arrived in the country on a business visa, was stopped from delivering sermon at the annual convention of Church of…

BJP to strengthen NDA in Kerala

Kozhikode, Feb 2 Close on the heels of the political developments in Karnataka the Kerala unit of the BJP would take concerted efforts to strengthen the National Democrativ Alliance (NDA)…

Jihadi Terrorism Training School in Alwaye

The Iraq war, Afghanistan conflict, Nuclear weapon development in Iran and Pakistan, Islamic terrorism in Kashmir, and the Sri Lankan conflict has increased the strategic importance of the Kerala sea…

ABVP not to oppose Global Edn Meet

KOZHIKODE: The ABVP on Tuesday said it will not oppose the Global Education Meet slated for next week in Kochi.ABVP state president A. Vinod and secretary V P Rajeevan told…

HC directs Marxists to pay for hartal damage

Pioneer News Service/ Kochi The Kerala High Court on Wednesday directed the CPI (M) and its youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) to pay a compensation of Rs…

Narendran commission report : A blueprint for disaster

Omman Chandy government controlled by Muslim and Christian interest groups has decided to implement the controversial and disastrous Narendran Commission Report. Narendran Commission Report recommends additional hiring quota, job reservation,…

Kerala becoming another Kashmir, fears RSS

Pioneer News Service/ Thiruvananthapuram Is the growing influence of fundamentalist organisations in Kerala turning the State into another Kashmir? The recent discovery of gelatin sticks at the Kozhikode bus stand,…

BJP flays UDF, LDF stand on Madani

Pioneer News Service/ Alappuzha BJP State president PS Sreedharan Pillai has said that the plan of the UDF and the LDF to bring out a unanimous resolution in the coming…

Disband Communist party

Alapuzha, Jan 30 Former BMS All India Working President, Mr Ra Venugopal has demanded that the communist party should be disbanded immediately as it has already knelt before the American…

Terrorists having free run along Kerala coast

THIRUVANAMTHAPURAM: The Coast Guard Station Commander Kajol Roy told media persons here on Sunday that the Kerala coast has become a safe haven for terrorists and anti-national forces. “Terrorists have…

SNDP to adopt the family of Santhosh

Kochi, Jan 29   SNDP to adopt the family of Santosh who was killed allegedly by a Goonda mafia in Paravur near Aluva early this month.   Mr Vellapally Natesan,…

Christians being taken for a ride by clergy: Pulikunnel

In a clarion call, Mr Joseph Pulikunnel, Director, Indian Institute of Christian Studies, has asked Christians all over Kerala to dump the outdated teachings being preached by a section of…

Mazdoor Sangh research centre to go on steam

Pioneer News Service/ Kochi The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has initiated work on a Labour Study, Training and Research Centre here under the Bharatiya Mazdoor Seva Kendram Trust. The foundation…

Hindu religious meet at Ranni from February 5

PATHANAMTHITTA: The annual Hindumatha Maha Sammelan, organised by the Ranni Haindava Seva Samiti and the Central Ayyappa Seva Sanghom, will be held on the Pampa riverbed at Ranni from February…

Tapasya leader passes away

Pioneer News Service/ Kozhikode   Kerala’s vice-president of cultural organisation Tapasya and national executive member of Agra-based Samskar Bharati, Rajan Nambi, died of renal failure at a private hospital here…

Secularism is one-way traffic: Pinarayi Vijayan

THIRUVANAMTHAPURAM:  Pinarayi Vijayan, the CPM strong man in Kerala declared here on unequivocal terms that secularism is only a one- way traffic. Reacting sharply to JD(S) leader Deve Gowda’s statement…

Pinarayi playing a dangerous game: BJP

Pioneer News Service/ Thiruvananthapuram Terming CPI (M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan’s bid to woo the Muslim vote-bank as dangerous, BJP Kerala unit president PS Sreedharan Pillai flayed the Marxists for…

RSS Pratinidhi Sabha

Kochi, Jan 24 The RSS Pranthiya Prathinidhi Sabha would be held at Thiruvananthapuram on Jan 27. At the meeting which would begin at 9 am, Sarkaryavah Mohan Bhagwat will participate.…

Bharathiya Vikas Sangamam

 Kochi, Jan 24 The Philosopher and social worker, Mr K N Govindacharya will be in Kerala on a three day visit from Jan 27. Mr Govindacharya who is spearheading a…

Parties wooing vote-banks in Kerala, alleges RSS

Pioneer News Service/ Thiruvananthapuram The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has accused the political parties of wooing the Muslims with an eye on the vote-bank, forgetting threats to national security. Terming…

Priceless idols stolen from temple

 Kochi, Jan 22 Burglary in temples appears to be on the increase in Kerala, as in less than a fortnight two such incidents have been reported, the latest being in…

The great theft of Tsunami fund

The proper management of disaster, and rehabilitation of the victims of disaster is of increasing importance of the government. Proper risk assessment, settlement of victims, allocation of funds, immediate housing…