Ending days of uncertainty, People’s Democratic Party chairman Abdul Nasser Madani was arrested by a Karnataka police team on Tuesday afternoon.
He was later flown to Bengaluru. The PDP leader is an accused in the Bengaluru blasts case.

People’s Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani will be taken to Bengaluru on Tuesday, it is learnt.
Madani, an accused in the Bengaluru blast case, will either surrender before the Karunagapilly magistrate in the morning, and if that does not happen, he would be arrested and taken away by the Karnataka police team now camping in the state.

The police on Saturday laid siege to camp of the People’s Democratic Party leader, Mr Abdul Nasser Madani, in Kollam as a prelude to arresting him in connection with the Bengaluru blasts of 2008.

Majority of orphanages in Kerala were becoming breeding centres of religious fundamentalism, an official committee has warned in its report submitted to the government.

The mystical vision of a “Thapaswini has taken visible shape as a breathtaking 91-feet tall marble lotus at Santhigiri Ashram on the outskirts of the state capital.
The lotus-shaped structure, which has been named Parnasala, will be formally unveiled by the President, Ms Pratibha Patil, on Friday.

The arrest of the People’s Democratic Party leader, Mr Abdul Nasser Madani, in connection with the Bengaluru serial blasts is likely to be delayed further because of the two-day visit of the President, Ms Pratibha Patil, to Kerala from Thursday.

THINK OF the Louvre Museum in Paris admitting with a callous shrug that a Da Vinci or two has gone missing from its gallery. It is well nigh improbable.

The chief editor of Malayala Manorama and a doyen of Indian journalism, K.M. Mathew, died at his residence in Kottayam early on Sunday morning.

V. Surendran Pillai, the Kerala Congress (Thomas) faction nominee to be inducted into the state cabinet, would be given Sports and Youth Affairs portfolio.

The Kerala high court on Monday nullified the election of Congress MP Kodikunnil Suresh from Mavelikkara saying that he was born as a Christian and was not entitled to contest from the constituency reserved for Scheduled Castes of the Hindu community.