Kerala gets fourth PSU under defence ministry

October 2nd, 2009 THEKKADY - Indian Navy divers Friday evening ended their search in Kerala's Thekkady lake for the day as four victims remained missing following the boat capsize that killed 41 tourists. The tragedy, meanwhile, led to acrimony between the state government and the defence ministry over an alleged Rs.45 lakh payment demanded to transport the bodies in a military plane.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pradeep Kumar today took over as the Defence Secretary on the superannuation of Vijay Singh. Kumar, IAS (Haryana Cadre) - 1972 batch, was till now working as Secretary (Defence Production) in the Ministry of Defence.

July 16th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Armed with a host of new applications with coir such as geotextiles, the Kerala government is making a strong pitch for the country's defence and railways establishments to bail out the ailing industry, even offering to sell the products at cost to begin with. "If they help us, then the thousands who earn their livelihood from coir will benefit," Coir Minister G.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The defence ministry has agreed to vacate spectrum for commercial use, Minister of State for Communications and IT Gurudas Kamat said Friday. According to an accord reached between the defence and the telecommunications ministries, the latter will set up an exclusive optical fibre cable (OFC) network for the armed forces.

June 26th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala will ask the central government to set up more public sector units and centre-state joint ventures in the state to spur its industrial development, Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem said Friday. Kareem told IANS here that he would go to Delhi next week to discuss the state's demands with Defence Minister A.K.

May 5th, 2009 MOSCOW - Several senior Georgian defence ministry officials have been arrested for an attempted coup, reports reaching here from Tbilisi said. 'A coup plot has been exposed,' Georgia's interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency.

April 16th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Defence Minister A.K. Antony said here Thursday that the Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala will make a clean sweep in the Lok Sabha elections.

April 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday said a $1.4 billion missile deal India has signed with Israel would be a major issue during the Lok Sabha polls, the first phase of which commences Thursday. 'It is already a major issue in Kerala.

April 9th, 2009 KOZHIKODE - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Kerala for a day-long election campaign on April 11. Talking to reporters here, District Congress Committee (DCC) President K C Abu revealed that after addressing an election rally in Kochi, Singh would visit Kozhikode to address a public meeting there at 3 p.m.

April 7th, 2009 KOZHIKODE - The Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Kerala Government on Tuesday said that it has set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe people having links with terrorists in the State. Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said the State Government has received a list of suspected people from the Centre, who have links with terrorists.

February 3rd, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Kerala government Wednesday gave its nod to set up a 2,400 MW thermal power plant in the state facing shortages of electricity supply. Chief Minister V.S.

January 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A.K. Antony will stand in for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is undergoing a bypass surgery, at the Republic Day function, the defence ministry said.

January 19th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Kerala government has identified 400 acres of land in Malappuram district for setting up an off campus centre of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), a state minister said Tuesday. Last year, the central human resource development ministry had decided to set up five off campus centres of the AMU across the country, of which one campus was to be in Kerala.

January 16th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac Saturday said the state is soon going to feel the heat of the economic slowdown as remittances from abroad are certain to fall in the coming months. 'It is going to be a tough time on account of the fall in remittances which incidentally have been keeping the state afloat for several years,' Isaac told reporters after the meeting of the Kerala State Planning Board here.

January 13th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - K.J. Mathew, a 1975-batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service, was Wednesday appointed the new chief secretary of Kerala.