Thiruvananthapuram

Kerala govt will provide vaccine free of cost

11:29 pm April 21, 2021

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said the Left government would provide the vaccine against COVID-19 free of cost for everyone in the State. This statement comes on a day the Serum Institute of India announced a price of Rs 400 per dosefor its COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’ for State governments and Rs 600 […]

Kerala reports 8,126 fresh COVID-19 cases, 20 deaths

8:16 pm April 15, 2021

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala added 8,126 new COVID-19 cases and 20 more deaths on Thursday, taking the infection count to 11,97,301 and the toll to 4,856. A total of 2,700 people recuperated from the disease today, pushing the cumulative tally to 11,28,475. There are now 63,650 people under treatment and 1,94,808 under observation out of which 8,915 […]

Priyanka attacks Modi on lack of empathy for Assam

Priyanka Gandhi offers worship at Attukal temple

11:58 pm March 30, 2021

Thiruvananthapuram: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday night offered prayers at the famous Attukal Devi Bhagavati temple here. After addressing a series of public meetings in Alappuzha, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts, she visited the shrine, along with Veena S Nair, Vatiyoorkavu candidate of the UDF and spent sometime at the shrine. A large number […]

Judicial probe against Central agencies ‘unfortunate’- Rajnath Singh

12:19 pm March 28, 2021

Thiruv: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the Kerala government’s decision to recommend a judicial inquiry against central probe agencies, including the Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the gold and dollar smuggling cases, was ”unfortunate” and amounts to challenging the federal structure of the Constitution. Singh, who is in Kerala to campaign for the […]

Boy dies aping hair-straightening act in social media

8:20 pm March 24, 2021

Thiruvananthapuram: A 12-year-old boy died of burns he sustained while reportedly trying to imitate an hair-straightening act shown in the social media, police said on Wednesday. The deceased was Sivanarayanan of Venganoor near here. The seventh standard school student on Tuesday reportedly applied kerosene to his hair and tried to straighten it with a lit […]