KANNUR: Coming to the rescue of Kerala finance minister, Dr T M Thomas Isaac, who was in the eye of a storm on the lottery issue, CPI(M) Kerala General Secretary, Pinarayi vijayan, Sunday said no one need to think to isolate Isaac.

Speaking at a function here, Vijayan said that there was no diffe

KOCHI: The sacking of a college lecturer, whose right hand was chopped off by activists of a radical outfit for preparing a question paper with alleged derogatory references to Prophet Muhammad, came in for widespread condemnation Sunday as the victim contemplates legal action.

A day after manage

MALAPPURAM: Four persons died after allegedly consuming illicit liquor from a toddy shop at Kuttippuram in the district today, police said. The bodies of two persons were recovered from Kuttippuram Railway station premises while two others died at a hospital, they said. Seven others have been admitt

KUTTIPPURAM: Eighteen people, including a woman, were killed and a dozen others hospitalised after they consumed poisoned toddy at different parts of the Malappuram district since Sunday afternoon. Most of them died on Monday morning. Eleven of the victims are Malayalis. Seven of the victims belonge

MALAPPURAM: Indian Union Muslim League today blamed flaws in the excise policy of the LDF Government responsible for the hooch tragedy in Kuttippuram.

Instead of discouraging alcohol consumption, the government had been pursuing a policy of promoting liquor consumption as a major source of state

KOLLAM: Kerala has asked the Centre to order a probe by NIA into the attack on a college lecturer whose hand was chopped off allegedly by activists of radical outfit PFI for preparing a question paper with alleged derogatory references to Prophet Mohammed.

Union Home Secretary G K Pillai told rep