Author: NE Reporter

Kollam: After much drama and tension over the denial to board the Indigo fight yesterday, Abdul Nazar Madani reached his home at Anwarssery at 2.30 am on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Mody dropped five ministers from his council on Tuesday and expanded it by inducting 19 new faces.

The nature of the expansion and the profile of the new faces show that Narendra Modi has done this exercise with an eye on the upcoming elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh and to implement the party’s agenda of bringing Dalits and backwards closer. Several of the new faces belong to the dalit and OBC categories.

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi and a crusader against corruption, suffered a setback when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested his principal secretary Rajendra Kumar for corruption. Four others were also arrested in the graft case involving Rs 50 crore.

New Delhi: CPM leader V S Achuthanandan has suffered two setbacks in the Supreme Court.The Supreme Court dismissed the petition filed by Achuthanadan seeking CBI probe into the Kozhikode Ice Cream Parlour Case.

The court observed that it does not have the time to take up the case which Achuthanandan has filed for political vengeance.

Kozhikode: Prashanth Nair, District Collector of Kozhikode, offered unconditional apology to Kozhikode MP, M K Raghavan, fearing departmental action for denouncing an elected representative through social media.

M K Raghavan MP had lodged a complaint with the Chief Minister against the collector’s rude behaviour and protocol violation

Kochi: Cardinal George Alenchery, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, which is a constituent of the the Catholic Church in India, has come out in the open in support of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party’s ( BJP) move to bring Uniform Civil Code in India.

New Delhi: Eight universities in Uttar Pradesh were declared as fraudulent institutions by University Grants Commission( UGC).

Kochi: Idea cellular phone network service in the State came to a standstill on Saturday morning due to a technical snag at the master switching centre at Kakkanad in Ernakulam.

Vatican: Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that a “gay lobby” in the Vatican had tried to influence its decisions and that he was able to “break up this power group” .

Benedict, who resigned in 2013 – the first pontiff to do so in six decades – reveals this in his memoirs which will be released on September 9.

Kochi: Communist Party of India (CPI) which is a constituent of the LDF-led Kerala cabinet has raised serious corruption charges against Ernakulam Collector Rajamanickam and demanded his removal from his current posting.