Author: NE Reporter

Kochi: Banana Chips will be weighed in gold during Onam festival this season as the price of raw banana( nenthrakkaya) has shot through the ceiling even before the advent of the festival. Nenthran Banana price hovers around Rs 70 every where in Kerala, now.

  Kollam: Kerala Police will register a bailable case against Kerala Congress(B) leader R Balakrishna.

Kochi: Kerala High Court has at last decided to allow the re-entry of media into its premises.

The Registrar of the High Court issued a press release making it clear that there is no ban on media entering the High Court.

Washington: US State Department Spokesman John Kirby, expressed concern over reports of “rising intolerance and violence” in India.

“We’re obviously concerned by reports of rising intolerance and violence… As we do in countries facing such problems around the world, we urge the government to do everything in its power to protect citizens and to hold the perpetrators accountable,” the US Spokesman said.

  Kozhikode: Mediapersons who had come to Kozhikode First Class magistrate court to report the.

Paris/Vatican: An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed a church during a morning Mass in a suburb of Rouen in northern France.

The two attackers entered the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray on Tuesday morning, taking the elderly priest and four other people hostage before being shot dead by French police.

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will attend Mother Teresa’s sainthood ceremony on September 4 in Vatican City. He has accepted the invitation of the Missionaries of Charity.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had also agreed to be present at the ceremony.

Arvind Kejriwal had worked with Mother Teresa for a few months at the Nirmal Hriday Ashram in Kolkata.

Kollam: Anthony Varghese alias Aadu Antony was sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing to death policeman Maniyan Pilla and wounding another police officer Joy during a vehicle check in 2012.

Kochi: Kerala High Court has observed that keeping athlete Anu Raghavan out of the relay team for Rio Olympics was an injustice to her.

Anu Raghavan was replaced by Ashwini Akkunji, an athlete whose merits counted less than those of Anu. She had clocked better time than Ashwini in the previous four meets. The court which went into the merits of both the athletes asked the Olympics Association to include Anu in the team.

  KOCHI: Arshid Qureshi, an activist of controversial Muslim preacher Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation,.