Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan incurred the ire of Muslim organisations and political parties for stating that the radical outfit Popular Front wanted to turn the state into a Muslim-majority through their communal and divisive activities.

Unfazed by criticism from the Opposition and Muslim outfits, chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan on Monday stood by his remarks that the radical outfit Popular Front of India was aiming at “Islamisation of Kerala”.

The CPI(M) on Friday refused point blank to obey an order from the Union environment ministry to close down a controversial mangrove theme park which it runs at Pappinesserry in Kannur.

A nine-year-old boy, who was hospitalised after his drunken father slashed his buttocks with a knife, was handed over to a child care home by the State Women’s Commission.

The Kerala government on Monday asked the National Investigation Agency to probe the sabotage attempt on a passenger train in Nilambur last week. The airbrake pipes of the train were found to have been cut at 20 places on the morning of July 8. On the same day, a packet of explosives were also detected in the Vanchinad Express travelling from Ernakulam to Thiruvananthapuram. Both the incidents caused much alarm in the state.

The police and railway authorities were on high alert on Thursday after airbrake pipes of the Shornur-Nilambur Express were found severed in the morning and a packet of explosives was detected in the Vanchinad Express later.

The Bharat Bandh called by Opposition parties over the fuel price hike was total in Kerala with transport services staying off the roads, establishments downing shutters and government offices becoming dysfunctional.

An eight-member gang on Sunday morning attacked and chopped off the palm of Prof T.J.

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The minister of state for home, Mr Mullappally Ramachandran, said here on Sunday that many outfits in Kerala had links with the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan.