The southwest monsoon has not advanced much in the last few days because of lack of speedy winds but the Indian Meteorological Department is sticking to its prediction that it would set in over Kerala

The southwest monsoon has not advanced much in the last few days because of lack of speedy winds but the Indian Meteorological Department is sticking to its prediction that it would set in over Kerala on May 30.

Stunned by grief, Kerala’s northern district of Kasargode on Sunday witnessed the funerals of 30 passengers of the ill-fated Air India Express flight which crashed in Mangalore.

Decks have been cleared for the re-entry of Mr K. Muraleedharan, son of the former chief minister, Mr K. Karunakaran to the Congress.
A former KPCC president, Mr Muraleedharan had been expelled from the party in 2005 after he formed the Democratic Indira Congress along with his father. Though Mr Karunakaran returned to the Congress, his son was left in the political wilderness with Kerala leaders opposing his re-entry.

Two hundred years after it flashed against the Redcoats, the sword of Velu Thampi Dalawa, a minister of erstwhile Travancore who fought against the British decades before the 1857 revolt, is set to return to Kerala for a year.

Reserve Bank governor D. Subbarao said on Thursday that “Islamic banking” was not possible within the country’s existing legal framework.

The RBI governor, Dr D. Subbarao, said on Thursday that Islamic banking was not possible within the existing legal framework of the country.
While talking to mediapersons after the meeting of the RBI board here, Mr Subbarao said that Islamic banking did not involve payment of interest and was based on s

The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front government marked its fourth anniversary in power on Monday with a dose of chest-thumping which could not hide the deep unease in the ruling front.