The growth of micro financing sector in the country had helped the common man including small farmers and traders to have easy access to loans, defence minister A.K. Antony said on Saturday.

Former state power minister and Kerala Congress (B)leader R. Balakrishna Pillai and contractor P.K. Sajeevan were on Friday sent to the central prison in the state capital in a corruption case, a week after they were sentenced to one-year imprisonment by the Supreme Court marking the culmination of legal battles lasting over 20 years.

The Kerala police on Tuesday registered a case against the Kannur Congress MP, Mr K. Sudhakaran, over his allegation that a Supreme Court judge had taken a bribe of `21 lakh for restoring annulled bar licences in the early 1990s. It was in the midst of a heated speech the other day that the Congress strongman said that he witnessed

The ruling CPI(M) and the Kerala Bar Council on Sunday demanded that the Supreme Court order a thorough inquiry into the charge by Congress MP K.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that airplanes were no longer seen as the mode of travel for the rich alone.
“At one time, the aviation sector was looked upon as being relevant only for the affluent sections of our population,” he said while inaugurating the new international

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visiting a BrahMos Aerospace Unit, an Indo-Russian joint venture, at Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday

Giving a new twist to the ice-cream parlour sex scandal, the first-class magistrate court here asked the police on Friday to register a case against the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) general secre

Nine people died after a blast occurred in a cracker unit located near a railway track in Shornur near Palakkad on Tuesday evening.
The blast, triggered by a fire, also injured around 25 people.

The Kerala high court on Thursday asked the Travancore Devaswom Board to explain if the “Makaravilakku” light at Sabarimala was a “man-made” phenomenon or not.
A high court bench comprising Justices Thottathil Radhakrishnan and C.V. Gopinath, taking up reports by the board, the police and the forest department on the

The so-called celestial Makaravilakku light in Sabarimala that evokes awe in devotees is created by officials who burn loads of camphor secretly at the Ponnambalemedu adjacent to the hill shrine and w