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KOCHI: For reasons best known to the public works department (PWD), the costlier interlocking tiles have become the preferred option to relay severely damaged stretches of city roads, resulting in 'unforeseen' consequences.
Taking the department and motorists for a ride, contractors are carryi...
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KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Thursday quashed the orders issued by the state government limiting appointment of school teacher to Teachers Bank for infringing upon the rights of aided school managements.
Justice AV Ramakrishna Pillai quashed the government orders while considering 39 petiti...
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KOCHI: A 15-year-old girl from Ponnurunni died on Wednesday evening after sustaining burns while conducting a science experiment at home on Monday.
Amrita Viswam, a Class X student of a private school, Karanakodam, died at a private hospital where she was undergoing treatment.
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KANNUR: Police have named MLA James Mathew as an accused in the case of suicide of a higher secondary school headmaster at Thaliparamba here. The MLA has applied for anticipatory bail. E P Sasidharan, headmaster of Tagore Vidyaniketan, committed suicide on December 15, after writing a suicide note blaming a c...
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KOCHI: The welding work going on at the Metro site in Kaloor has become a safety threat for pedestrians and motorists using the stretch.
Sparks from the welding work, which got underway on Monday, are falling directly on commuters and passersby from the scaffolding and beams of the Metro struct...
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KOCHI: India topped the list of prawn exporters to the US during the period between January and November 2014, showed the figures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a part of the US Department of Commerce.
According to NOAA, India exported 99,566 tonnes of prawn, w...
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KOCHI: Manoj Ravindran, who has been accused of making defamatory statements against Kochi mayor Tony Chammany on Facebook, said on Tuesday that he was very much present in the city contrary to what the central police claimed.
Police on Monday issued a statement that they are tracking a person ...
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KOCHI: The high court on Tuesday turned down the plea for deploying national disaster response force (NDRF) or rapid action force (RAF) for crowd management at 'pathinettampadi' (18 holy steps) in Sabarimala.
A division bench comprising justices T R Ramachandran Nair and P V Asha considered a p...
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KOCHI: In the first instance of its kind in Kerala, and probably in the country itself, an accident victim got his forearm replaced by that of a brain-dead donor.
When Binoy was declared brain dead following a bike accident, his family conveyed their willingness to have his organs donated thoug...
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KOCHI: Central government's former representative at the Kerala high court has filed a petition before the court for recovering the legal fees owed to him by the government.
The representative, whose formal title was assistant solicitor general (ASG), is a political appointee and is paid on the...
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