Two more fishermen was killed when a ship struck in their boat.Two of them killed and one has been hospitalized

However the Election Commission has decided to install CCTV cameras in these sensitive polling booths. The police have also asked the Election commission to tighten the security in these sensitive booths.
The by-poll was necessitated by the death of Kerala Congress (J) leader T.M. Jacob.
Death of Jacob in October had further eroded the elected strength of the UDF in the assembly to 71 including the Speaker against 68 seats held by the CPI(M)-led LDF opposition.
While the UDF has chosen Jaocob’s son Anoop Jacob as its nominee, LDF has decided to fielded M J Jacob, who narrowly lost to T M Jacob in 2011 general elections.
M J Jacob had won the seat in 2006 assembly polls, defeating T M Jacob.

 Feb 25, 2012
CHENNAI: Music director Johnson’s son Ren Johnson died in a bike accident on Saturday. The incident happened at 1 pm in Chennai this afternoon. This is a great shock to the family as the music director had passed away only in August.


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February 25, 2012:
The LDF filed a complaint with the election commission on Saturday against electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed.
According to the LDF complaint, electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed had violated model code of conduct by declaring that Anoop would become a minister after the polls.
But Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, inaugurating UDF’s election convention at Piravom and also referring to the LDF complaint, said that the only issue before the UDF was whether Anoop should become a minister before the polls or after that.

Aryadan’s ‘ministership’ remark kicks up a row

STILL ALIVE is a stop-motion short film. Stop-motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames. This technique is been derived from the concept of animation which has been in use since ancient times.
Shot within 8 days by using an ordinary tripod, this short film depicts "footwear" as the characters. The main lead male character of this film is personified in a men's sport-shoe which tries to woo a fancy women's footwear, and other characters are also described in a similar fashion. The cycle of love story between this male and female footwear forms the basic outline of this short film. The personality and the emotional aspects of the character is been conveyed through the walk-cycle, posing and other animations of the footwear.

The expert team has requested to Apex Court to permit them to open vault ‘C’. The Court will consider the case tomorrow.
According to earlier reports, the temple is believed to have a treasure trove of precious jewels which is estimated to be worth more than
Rs One lakh crore, making it the richest temple in the world.

February 22, 2012: 
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
K.R. Rajagopal has been selected as the BJP candidate for the Piravom Assembly by-election. The decision was taken during the meeting of the State office-bearers of the party held on Wednesday. Rajagopal will file nomination on Thursday. He is the son of former Minister KGR Kartha.

Jacob’s death has further narrowed down the UDF majority in the 140-member Assembly. According to political observers, if the UDF fails to retain Piravom, it could only shake the government.

Tuesday, February 21
Trivandrum: Kerala State Labour Minister Shibu Baby John has ordered the Labour Department officials to ensure minimum wages to nurses and para-medical staff in private hospitas. Labour department officials will check documents in private hospitals and submit report in this regard. The official in charge of the area will be answerable, if any irregularity is found in a hospital, and will be dealt with strict action.

State government will also consider raising the minimum wages to nurses and para medical staff, the minister assured. He called upon the striking nurses not to forget their duty towards the society.

February 21 ,2012:                           
Kannur: Deputy leader of the opposition Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Tuesday said that UDF has given control of police force in the district to Muslim League and this is the real reason for violence.
Oommen Chandy has divided the control of the police force among the UDF constituents, Kodiyeri alleged.

If peace has to return to the region, first we should know what stand the IUML will take on the situation, he said.Talking to the media on the backdrop of the ongoing violence in the district, Kodiyeri said that his party support all peace initiatives.

February 21, 2012


Vagamon: Nearly four people were killed when a mini bus fell into a 500 feet deep gorge at Vellikullam near Vagamon at 8 30 this morning. The people traveling from Alapuzha belonged to a music troupe. The deceased were natives of Alappuzha.

Three people died on the spot and one person died on the way to the hospital. 22 people were traveling in the bus. Almost 18 persons have been injured. Three people are in a critical stage. Rescue operations are under way. Police suspects that the accident occurred because the driver dozed off.

The bodies of the deceased has been taken to Eratupetta hospital. Those who are critically injured have been taken to Kottayam Medical College. The injured people are being admitted to various hospitals in Eratupetta. As the bus fell into a 500 deep gorge rescue operations has been very difficult. It is only after the fire force arrived at the spot that the rescue operators could enter the gorge to pull out the victims. All the travelers have been pulled out of the gorge

Kannur:

 The CPIM has called for a 12 hour hartal in Kannur district tomorrow in protest against the attack on CPIM Kannur District Secretary, P Jayarajan. More than 50 Muslim League activists hurled stones at the vehicle in which Mr Jayarajan was traveling in. The incident occurred at Ariyil, Thaliparamba this afternoon. Mr Jayarajan and MLA T V Rajesh were injured.

” It was an attempt to murder us. It is only because the driver was clever enough and managed to maneuver the car out of the angry mob that we survived,” Mr Jayarajan said. The CPIM leaders protested before the Thaliparamba police station. MLA James Mathew was also traveling in the same vehicle that was attacked. The vehicles of Kairali TV, and Deshabhimani were also attacked by the mob.

February 21, 2012:

Italian authorities on Tuesday filed a petition demanding the cancellation of the FIR registered against two Italian naval guards who were charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast.
The petition points out that Indian laws are not applicable as the incident happened in international waters.
The Italian foreign ministry also demanded a discussion of the issue at the government level. It accused the Kerala police of acting in arbitrary manner and that the action is not acceptable.
A statement released by the Italian foreign ministry also said that the incident took place along the international shipping channel and there for only international laws would be applicable.