Kochi: Necessity is the mother of invention, goes the old saying. In line with the adage, four young enterprising IT geeks, have tweaked their existing IT solution to come up with a new tracking app that can be used by authorities to track those in quarantine. The start-up, Pinmicro, which has an office at Infopark […]
Kochi: The first COVID-19 death has been reportee from Kerala, here, said a State Minister on Saturday. State Agriculture Minister V.S. Sunilkumar told the media that the 69-year-old man arrived from UAE on March 22 and was in isolation. “He is from Kochi and was suffering from heart ailment and blood pressure. Since he was […]
Kochi: Five British tourists who were under quarantine at a hospital here on Friday turned positive for Covid-19, said a state Minister. With this the total number of positive cases has touched 30. “These 5 positive patients all aged over 60 include one woman. They were part of a 19-member tourist group from the UK. […]
Kochi: A group of foreign tourists including a coronavirus positive British national was stopped from flying to Dubai at Cochin airport on Sunday, the officials said. The patient arrived in Kerala on March 2 and reached Munnar on March 7. But on March 10 he developed symptoms of coronavirus and was asked to remain under […]
Kochi: A Christian priest who was arrested on Sunday for sodomizing young boys — inmates in a Boy’s Home here, headed by the Father himself, was sent to judicial custody for 14 days. Father George, alias Jerry, 40, the director of the Home, was arrested based on complaints of parents of the young boys, an officer […]
Kochi: Besides a Kerala youth being treated for testing positive for Nipah virus (NiV), state Health Minister K.K. Shailaja on Wednesday revealed that three nurses who treated him, a friend and another person have been kept in isolation. A total of 311 people from Thrissur, Paravur in Ernakulam district, and Thodupuzha in Idukki were also […]
Kochi: Facebook has honoured a 19-year-old student from Kerala for spotting a memory corruption bug on its instant messaging platform WhatsApp, the media reported. K.S. Ananthakrishna, a B.Tech student at Pathanamthitta Mount Zion College of Engineering College, detected the bug that enabled other people to completely remove files on WhatsApp without knowledge of the user, according […]
Kochi: Alleged Islamic State operative Riyas Aboobacker, who was taken into custody by the NIA two days back from Kerala’s Palakkad and formally arrested on Monday, was sent to judicial custody till May 29 by the special court here on Tuesday. Aboobacker alias Abu Dujana was arrested on charges for conspiring to commit a terrorist […]
Kochi: Veteran Kerala politician K.M. Mani, who never lost any Assembly election since 1967, died on Tuesday evening at a private hospital here, doctors said. The 86-year-old was undergoing treatment for a lung ailment since his admission to the hospital last week. Mani’s party is the biggest ally of the Congress in the United Democratic […]
Kochi: A day after Congress spokesperson Tom Vadakkan joined the BJP, Thiruvananthapuram Congress Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor’s aunt and her husband took membership of the BJP here on Friday. Sobhana Sasikumar, Tharoor’s mother’s sister, as well as her husband Sasikumar and 13 others were welcomed into the party by state BJP president P.S. Sreedharan […]
