Pinarayi Vijayan

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Journalist dies in road mishap in Kerala

11:04 pm December 14, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: Journalist S V Pradeep was killed in a road mishap when the two wheeler he was riding was hit by a car at nearby Karakkamandapa on Monday, police said. The car, which came from the same direction hit Pradeep’s scooter, knocking him down and sped off, police said. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has ordered a probe and a […]

Kerala braces for ‘Burevi’ ;Tvm airport to be shut on Dec 4

11:04 pm December 3, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: The International airport here will remain shut for eight hours from Friday morning and over 2000 relief camps have been opened as Kerala remains on high alert with heavy rains expected when cyclone Burevi makes landfall. The district administration here has opened 217 relief camps and 15,840 people have been shifted there from disaster-prone areas. Chief […]

Gold smuggling case: Suspended IAS officer taken into ED custody; Oppn demand CM’s resignation

7:08 pm October 28, 2020

Kochithiruva: Suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar, facing probe in the Kerala gold smuggling case, was taken into custody by the ED from a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday, with the opposition mounting pressure on CM Pinarayi Vijayan demanding his resignation over the matter. Minutes after the high court rejected his anticipatory bail pleas in the […]

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Kerala first state to fix floor price for vegetables: CM

9:03 pm October 27, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala on Tuesday became the first state to fix the floor price for vegetables, which would be 20 per cent above the production cost, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said here on Tuesday. The scheme would come into effect from November 1, he said. Launching the scheme online, he said this was the first time […]

Make Kerala carbon-neutral through greenhouses, says CM

5:50 pm October 15, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the state should transform itself into a carbon-neutral region by setting up greenhouses. Inaugurating through video conference the 1,261st greenhouse set up here by the Haritha Kerala Mission, he said though the target was to construct 1,000 greenhouses, it was an achievement that 1,261 had been set up […]