June 2012 ~ KERALA NEWS

Dengue fever cases on the rise in T’puram

Sunday, July 1, 2012: According to the recent reports, the number of patients being hospitalized with dengue fever and other contagious diseases in the state is increasing.

As many as 18 persons have been confirmed with dengue fever in Thiruvananthapuram district and are under treatment in various hospitals. Six persons have been confirmed with H1N1 in the state. Dengue has the symptoms of sudden high fever and severe headache, pain behind the eyes and nausea.

The health authorities have urged the people to boil water before drinking, to consume food when it is hot, to keep their houses and surroundings clean and to dispose of garbage properly.

2 killed in road mishap in Nilambur

Sunday, July 1, 2012: Two persons were killed and one seriously injured in a road mishap that occurred near Nilambur railway gate in Malappuram district on Sunday.

The injured person has been shifted to Nilambur taluk hospital. The dead have been identified as Rajan and Ummar, both natives of Ayilassery.

NSS and SNDP turn against govt

KOTTAYAM/KOLLAM: The NSS and the SNDP harshly criticised the UDF government headed by Ommen Chandy. NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair said that if the present situation continues, the UDF will not be able to complete its term. The government is more interested in appeasing the Muslims. The education minister and the chief minister insulted NSS general secretary, said Nair.

SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan said the Muslim League has hijacked the administration of the government. Vellappally sarcastically said that if the League demands a state as its centre in Malappuram, the government will surely provide it.

Pinarayi demands probe against Congress MP

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPI (M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan Saturday asked the government to register a case and begin an enquiry against Congress Lok Sabha member K Sudhakaran, following new revelation made in a shooting case.
Sudhakaran is a former state minister and is presently the Lok Sabha member from Kannur.

Addressing reporters here, Pinarayi said the new revelations have come from a former aide (Prasanth Babu) of Sudhakaran who was also his driver.

"He has revealed that the shooting of the then Kannur CPI-M district secretary E P Jayarajan was done after a conspiracy hatched by Sudhakaran at his residence in Kannur," said Pinarayi.

Pinarayi also said that Babu has revealed that Sudhakaran was behind two other attacks in Kannur in which one person was killed and another seriously injured.

Jayarajan, currently a CPI-M legislator from Kannur, was shot at on board the Rajdhani Express at Chirala in Andhra Pradesh on April 12, 1995 while traveling from New Delhi to Kannur.

"In the light of the new revelation, the home ministry here should give direction to the police to register a case against Sudhakaran," added Pinarayi.

"Babu has said that even though a case was registered against the people who actually did the shooting, Sudhakaran got away after the Congress government here influenced politicians in Andhra Pradesh and his name was not there in the list of accused," added Pinarayi.

Reacting to the developments, Jayarajan said that it was known that he was shot by a group of people selected to do the job.
"Now that the name of Sudhakaran has come out, the police should find out the truth," said Jayarajan.

Sudhakaran told reporters that Babu was never a close aide as mentioned but was his driver for just a month.

"I will cooperate with any enquiry and I welcome a probe into the new revelations. But it must be known that Babu, today is unemployed and has lost his job in a bank which is governed by CPI-M members and it is least surprising that since he wants his job, he has to please the CPI-M," said Sudhakaran.

Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan told reporters that the government had a policy to look into the matter if there was any truth in the new revelations.

"The high court the other day upheld a case that we registered based on a new revelation and hence we will enquire into this revelation also," said Radhakrishnan.

Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose said that the police have a standard procedure wherein first, they will find out from the person who made the revelation and depending on the veracity of the information, they will decide to go ahead or not.

VS attacks Pinarayi

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Let us see whether the people of the state will believe what CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said in connection with the murder of T P Chandrasekharan, said opposition leader V S Achuthanandan.

He said this while responding to Pinarayi’s reiterated statement that the party has no role in the murder case of TP. The arrest of P Mohanan in a filmy style was not correct, he added.

K Sudhakaran’s ex-driver comes out with startling revelations

Saturday, June 30, 2012: Congress local leader has come out in open against Congress leader K Sudhakaran. Prashanth Babu, Congress block secretary and Sudhakaran’s car driver for over 4 years, had revealed that Congress leader K Sudhakaran had conspired to kill CPM leader E P Jayarajan.

Prashanth Babu said the conspiracy to kill E P Jayarajan was hatched at Sudhakaran’s Nadallil house. Sudhakaran is also involved in the attack that took place in Kannur Savery hotel and at the co-operative press. The attack was carried out with the help of quotation gang. Sudhakaran had infact aligned with the police to save the real accused. He was using party activists as scapegoat instead of real goondas.

Meanwhile, politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan wanted a case to be booked against Sudhakaran and hold a probe in connection with Prashanth’s statement.

CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan too demanded probe against K Sudhakaran on the basis of recent revelations by his former driver Prashanth Babu. The revelations are very serious and the home ministry must be ready to take action and give protection to Prashanth Babu, he said. Congress national leadership and KPCC must react on this, Pinarayi said.

Kerala Plus One 2nd Allotment 2012 Results

Directorate of Higher Secondary Education, Government of Kerala is announced the Second(Final) and SC/ST Special Allotment Results and the results are published. Check your result from below All the best to all the Students who are attended for the examination.

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Bishop Kuriakose Mar Clemis goes ‘missing’

Four days after he was removed from official services, Metropolitan Kuriakose Mar Clemis of the Jacobite Church has reportedly gone missing. According to the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, Mar Clemis has left the place where he was staying.

“It is learnt that he has left the Thoothooty Retreat Centre in Kottayam where he was provided accommodation, following the disciplinary action. We do not know about his current whereabouts and have lodged a complaint with the police,” said a senior metropolitan, who is a member of the committee looking into the allegations.

“Mar Clemis is not cooperating with the committee constituted to look into the allegations raised by him. He has been asked to appear before the committee on July 4. But now we do not expect his presence,” he said.

Meanwhile, sources in the Jacobite church said that the real estate deals had trapped Mar Clemis. “He had given advances for real estate deals at various places in Idukki, including the land for the proposed headquarters of the Idukki diocese. `5 crore was given as advance for this purpose and he had landed in trouble when the registration process was delayed. What we could primarily understand is that he conceded to the pressure by somebody,” sources said.

However, according to the committee, the financial liabilities of Mar Clemis was not owing to the real estate agreements alone. “It is true that he had initiated some real estate deals, but the liabilities are not because of land deals alone,” the metropolitan said.

Meritorious students edged out of engineering rank list

Close on the heels of the High Court directing the government and All India Council for Technical Education to close down self-financing engineering colleges leaving many aspirants in panic, another problem confronts them.

The government has flouted the norm of considering 50 per cent of entrance examination marks and 50 per cent of board examination marks while charting the ranklist, depriving admission to many meritorious students to the merit seats.

The entrance exam directorate has fixed the total marks at 600 (300 set apart for entrance exam and 300 for board exam). Ideally, the marks should have been fixed at 630, that is, 480 marks for the entrance examination (50 per cent of the maximum score 960) plus 150 marks for board exams( 50 per cent of maximum score 300). The brilliant students may join IITs or similar institutes, they said.The parents said that conversion would mean only one third of the entrance exam marks are being taken into account and not 50 per cent as stipulated in the norms and therefore requested the government to rectify the ranklist.The Commissioner of Entrance Examination said that calculation has been done by experts. “The 960 marks have been converted into 300 based on the mathematical principles which only the mathematical experts know,” said B Mavoji, Commissioner of Entrance Examination. The formula followed by the authorities is highly beneficial to the state board students as compared to their peers, alleged the parents of CBSE students. “My daughter’s rank for the state engineering entrance is above 6000. One of her friends scored 391 marks for the entrance exam and 78 per cent for the board exam and her rank is above 11,000. CBSE students who appeared for the AIEEE obtained ranks within the 2,500-3,500 range,” said Dr Dhanesh.

Name, symbol of Kerala Congress for P C Thomas group

NEW DELHI: The Central Election Commission permitted the P C Thomas group the name, symbol and flag used by P J Joseph group before they merged with the Kerala Congress (Mani) group. P C Thomas’ anti-merger group of the party, who were against the merger of Joseph to Mani group, has the right to use it.

The election commission had earlier permitted the P C Thomas group to strike off the ‘anti-merger group’ and use just Kerala Congress.

Hartal cripples life in Kozhikode

KOZHIKODE: The dawn to dusk hartal called by the CPM in protest against the arrest of party district secretariat member P Mohanan in connection with the murder of RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan has crippled normal life in the district.

Even though private vehicles and KSRTC buses are operating services in the city, vehicles are not seen in many parts of Vatakara. Stones were pelted at the KSRTC bus in Arikkat. A car was damaged in stone pelting in Kovoor. Three including a child was injured in the incident.

Vault A to be opened next week

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The inventorying of vault A, a subterranean structure at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here, would begin by the end of next week. This was decided at a meeting on Friday of the Supreme Court committee on the temple. Sources in the committee said here that the inventorying of this vault may take up to six months. “This vault contains artefacts such as ‘sarappoli mala’, coins, crowns and other jewellery. It cannot be inventoried at the same speed that the others were,” one official associated with the inventorying said. The articles in vault A would be inventoried in exactly the same manner as those in the other vaults. However, there needs to be a slight modification in the security procedure. “We have to take the articles out of the underground chamber and take them to the workstations. The security measures for this process will be devised over the next couple of days,” the official said.

LL.B. entrance exam

The Commissioner for Entrance Examination has invited applications for an entrance examination to be held on July 22 for admission to the three-year LL.B. course in the government law colleges in Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Thrissur and Kozhikode. Applicants should be Indian citizens who have passed the degree examination with minimum 45 per cent marks in aggregate (40 per cent for those belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes). Candidates appearing for, or awaiting results of, the final-year qualifying examination may also apply. There is no upper age limit.

Apply online on www.cee.kerala.gov.in before 5 p.m. on July 2. The application fee is Rs. 600 (Rs. 300 for those belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes). The fee can be paid in any branch of the State Bank Travancore using the bank challan attached to the online application printout. Candidates outside Kerala can take a demand draft from any nationalised bank in favour of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations payable in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Kerala to go ahead with Seaplane project

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala government has decided in principle to implement the seaplane project aimed at boosting tourism in the state.

The public sector Pavan Hans would be entrusted with the work to carry out technical feasibility study of the project, State Minister for Tourism A P Anil Kumar said after a meeting convened by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to discuss it.

Shwetha Menon gives a nod to Blessy to film her maternity period, delivery

Shweta Menon has given a nod to film maker Blessy to make a film highlighting on her various stages of pregnancy.
Shweta Menon and her husband Sreevalsan Menon has said yes to director Blessy to shoot her maternity period as well as her child birth for his upcoming movie. Speaking about her decision to reveal such a personal side of her life, Shweta Menon said, "The sufferings, every moment a pregnant woman facing should be known by the partner and I am taking this opportunity to make proper use of it to make people aware of a mother's sacrifice. When a woman is carrying, the society treats her like a patient. This is injustice. So both of us are taking this opportunity to oppose this practice of society."
Two years ago, Blessy had planned a movie that showcased conversation between a mother and foetus. His new film with Shweta will go an extra mile by projecting the importance of sharing between a man and a woman during her most important period in her life - during her pregnancy and delivery.

TP murder: Mohanan in police custody for seven days

KOZHIKODE: P Mohanan, CPM Kozhikode district secretariat member, arrested in connection with the murder of T P Chandrasekharan, has been sent to police custody for seven days. He has been charged for conspiracy and murder under sections 302, 120B of IPC. The prosecution argued that he had a major role in the crime.

A scuffle broke out between the CPM activists and police while Mohanan was produced in the court. The fight started after RMP activists were attacked by the CPM. Even though the police tried to dissuade the CPM, they pelted stones towards the police.

Police resorted to lathicharge and used water cannons to disperse the agitated mob. Leaders including CPM state panel member Elamaram Kareem were present in the court. Mohanan was brought to the court after the situation calmed a bit.