07 Sep 2010
Thiruvananthapuram : Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai on Monday warned that the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (Let) militant outfit is planning to attack key installations in the country from the Indian coastline. He said the terror outfits like ISI and Lashkar-e-Toiba are recruiting some Malayaless moving towards gulf countries in search of jobs. They would be later shifted to Pakistan after issuing Pakistan passport to them and will be provided with training in terror cells. Again they would be brought to Gulf countries and will return to India in their Indian passport.
Interacting with media persons here, Pillai said the government has acquired intelligence inputs that reveal that the LeT is conducting training of its cadres in the coastal areas of the country.He said the Union Home Ministry has alerted the state governments of Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat, Orissa, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu to put their respective police forces on alert in anticipation of this eminently dangerous terror threat.
Asked for his comments on the incident involving the axing of an arm of a Kerala college lecturer by activists of radical outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), Pillai said the Government of Kerala has forwarded a request for a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to the Union Home Ministry, which is being studied.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
NRI businessman - Ravi Pillai - sponsors marriages of 107 women
29 Aug 2010
Kollam : Marriages of 107 women were organised here Monday by a social organisation supported by non-resident Indian (NRI) Ravi Pillai, who is considered as the largest employer of Indians in the Middle East.
Each groom was first handed a 'thali' by a guest and after the knot was tied, the couple was handed a token gift of Rs.25,000.
The event, organized by the Ravi Pillai Foundation, was witnessed by hundreds of people and dignitaries here.
Union Heavy Industries Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh and Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, Kerala Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran, Education Minister M.A. Baby, Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Oommen Chandy, and state Congress president Ramesh Chennithala besides more than a dozen legislators and a few Lok Sabha members were present on the occasion.
Religious leaders and personalities from the film fraternity were also present.
Speaking on the occasion, Deshmukh said: 'I will come again for such programmes.'
Kovoor Kunjumon, a ruling Left Front legislator who took part in the function, said that it was a great humanitarian gesture on the part of Pillai.
'The foundation will now provide employment to all the men abroad and if someone does not want a job, financial assistance would be provided to them to start a small business,' said Kunjumon.
'The couples were selected after a screening process which was first recommended by the local legislator. I myself recommended five and they got married today (Monday),' said Kunjumon.
The foundation also handed a cheque of Rs.1 million to noted environmentalist and poet Sugatha Kumari.
Hailing from this town, Pillai employs more than 25,000 Indians in his Nasser S Al-Hajri Corporation which is headquartered in Bahrain.
His company is engaged in construction at oil and gas refineries and petrochemical companies in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE.
A Padma Shri awardee, Pillai has also won the Pravasi Bharatiya award.
Kollam : Marriages of 107 women were organised here Monday by a social organisation supported by non-resident Indian (NRI) Ravi Pillai, who is considered as the largest employer of Indians in the Middle East.
Each groom was first handed a 'thali' by a guest and after the knot was tied, the couple was handed a token gift of Rs.25,000.
The event, organized by the Ravi Pillai Foundation, was witnessed by hundreds of people and dignitaries here.
Union Heavy Industries Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh and Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, Kerala Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran, Education Minister M.A. Baby, Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Oommen Chandy, and state Congress president Ramesh Chennithala besides more than a dozen legislators and a few Lok Sabha members were present on the occasion.
Religious leaders and personalities from the film fraternity were also present.
Speaking on the occasion, Deshmukh said: 'I will come again for such programmes.'
Kovoor Kunjumon, a ruling Left Front legislator who took part in the function, said that it was a great humanitarian gesture on the part of Pillai.
'The foundation will now provide employment to all the men abroad and if someone does not want a job, financial assistance would be provided to them to start a small business,' said Kunjumon.
'The couples were selected after a screening process which was first recommended by the local legislator. I myself recommended five and they got married today (Monday),' said Kunjumon.
The foundation also handed a cheque of Rs.1 million to noted environmentalist and poet Sugatha Kumari.
Hailing from this town, Pillai employs more than 25,000 Indians in his Nasser S Al-Hajri Corporation which is headquartered in Bahrain.
His company is engaged in construction at oil and gas refineries and petrochemical companies in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE.
A Padma Shri awardee, Pillai has also won the Pravasi Bharatiya award.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Kerala deity( Chakkulathukavu Amma ) draws devotees in Singapore
Sep 5, 2010 , Singapore
HUNDREDS of Hindu devotees flocked to the Sri Vairavimada Kaliamman Temple in Toa Payoh yesterday, all in the hope of seeing and receiving blessings from a visiting deity from Kerala, India.
The deity, Sree Bhagavathy Amman, is popular among women who seek comfort from problems such as family abuse and alcoholism.
This is the first trip the idol, measuring about 30cm, has taken outside of India. It hails from the 5,000-year-old Chakkulathukavu Sree Bhagavathy Temple in Kerala.
It is a smaller version of the main idol, which is said to have been fashioned naturally out of a rock and cannot be removed from the temple. About 1,000 Singaporeans make the trip to Kerala to visit the deity each year.
In Singapore since Thursday, the idol was displayed at Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Serangoon Road before being moved to Toa Payoh on Friday evening. It will return to India tonight.
Yesterday, a group of devotees sat barefoot on the floor of the Sri Vairavimada Kaliamman Temple chanting the 1,008 names of the deity, each signifying a different quality of her. Devotees offered the deity a plate of flowers at the end.
HUNDREDS of Hindu devotees flocked to the Sri Vairavimada Kaliamman Temple in Toa Payoh yesterday, all in the hope of seeing and receiving blessings from a visiting deity from Kerala, India.
The deity, Sree Bhagavathy Amman, is popular among women who seek comfort from problems such as family abuse and alcoholism.
This is the first trip the idol, measuring about 30cm, has taken outside of India. It hails from the 5,000-year-old Chakkulathukavu Sree Bhagavathy Temple in Kerala.
It is a smaller version of the main idol, which is said to have been fashioned naturally out of a rock and cannot be removed from the temple. About 1,000 Singaporeans make the trip to Kerala to visit the deity each year.
In Singapore since Thursday, the idol was displayed at Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Serangoon Road before being moved to Toa Payoh on Friday evening. It will return to India tonight.
Yesterday, a group of devotees sat barefoot on the floor of the Sri Vairavimada Kaliamman Temple chanting the 1,008 names of the deity, each signifying a different quality of her. Devotees offered the deity a plate of flowers at the end.
Bangalore: Madani’s Close Aide Arrested by CCB Police
Bangalore, Sep 4: Abdul Aziz, a Kerala-based close aide of Abdul Nasser Madani, was arrested by the policemen of city crime branch on Friday September 3.
Aziz, a prominent leader of People’s Democratic Party floated by Madani, was in the city, trying to get bail for Madani. The policemen, who got wind about his presence here, gathered information about his whereabouts and arrested him. Abdul Aziz reportedly had played a major role in the serial blasts of 2008 in the city and subsequent blasts near Chinnaswamy Stadium last year at the time IPL matches were in progress.
The arrests were made on the basis of information provided by Madani, who is in judicial custody here, during interrogation. Aziz had been nominated by Madani for guiding terrorist activities in the city, it is learnt.
Madani also had revealed that Aziz had duped a bank before getting involved with the above blasts, it is learnt.
Aziz, a prominent leader of People’s Democratic Party floated by Madani, was in the city, trying to get bail for Madani. The policemen, who got wind about his presence here, gathered information about his whereabouts and arrested him. Abdul Aziz reportedly had played a major role in the serial blasts of 2008 in the city and subsequent blasts near Chinnaswamy Stadium last year at the time IPL matches were in progress.
The arrests were made on the basis of information provided by Madani, who is in judicial custody here, during interrogation. Aziz had been nominated by Madani for guiding terrorist activities in the city, it is learnt.
Madani also had revealed that Aziz had duped a bank before getting involved with the above blasts, it is learnt.
Madani's security can be questioned if Karnataka demands: DGP
03 Sep 2010
Kochi: DGP Jacob Punnoose said that if Karnataka police demands the state will extend all help to question Madani's security guards. But till now no such demands were made. He said investigations are on about Thadiyantevida Nasser's visit to the Popular Front office.
The state government informed the HC the other day that it had received documents stating Naseer had visited the PFI district office near Aluva. The documents which were seized from an accused in the hand chopping case also stated that Naseer had stayed at Periyar valley house in Kunjunnikkara, Aluva.
Kochi: DGP Jacob Punnoose said that if Karnataka police demands the state will extend all help to question Madani's security guards. But till now no such demands were made. He said investigations are on about Thadiyantevida Nasser's visit to the Popular Front office.
The state government informed the HC the other day that it had received documents stating Naseer had visited the PFI district office near Aluva. The documents which were seized from an accused in the hand chopping case also stated that Naseer had stayed at Periyar valley house in Kunjunnikkara, Aluva.
No intimation reqarding questioning of Madani''s security men
Sep 03,2010
Kochi,Sept3 (PTI) Kerala Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose today said the state had not received any intimation from Karnataka police on questioning the personal security men of PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani, an accused in the Bangalore serial blasts case. "If there is any intimation in this regard from Karnataka police, Kerala police will give full support," the DGP told reporters here. Investigations are on regarding the reported visit of suspected LeT operative T Nazeer, also an accused in the case to the office of radical outfit, Popular Front of India which was allegedly behind the July 4 attack on a lecturer at Muvattupuzha in the district. T J Joseph's right hand was chopped off for preparing a question paper which allegedly contained derogatory references to Propheet Mohammed. Madani was arrested from Kollam in Kerala by a Karnataka police team on August 17 after a Bangalore court issued a non-bailable warrant against him in connection with the July, 2008 blasts that left one person dead and injured 20 others.PTI
Kochi,Sept3 (PTI) Kerala Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose today said the state had not received any intimation from Karnataka police on questioning the personal security men of PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani, an accused in the Bangalore serial blasts case. "If there is any intimation in this regard from Karnataka police, Kerala police will give full support," the DGP told reporters here. Investigations are on regarding the reported visit of suspected LeT operative T Nazeer, also an accused in the case to the office of radical outfit, Popular Front of India which was allegedly behind the July 4 attack on a lecturer at Muvattupuzha in the district. T J Joseph's right hand was chopped off for preparing a question paper which allegedly contained derogatory references to Propheet Mohammed. Madani was arrested from Kollam in Kerala by a Karnataka police team on August 17 after a Bangalore court issued a non-bailable warrant against him in connection with the July, 2008 blasts that left one person dead and injured 20 others.PTI
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
SC orders closure of Pappinniseri mangrove park for a month
31 Aug 2010
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the Pappinisseri mangrove park to stop all activities for a month. The SC directive comes while hearing a petition filed by the Union Forest and Environment Ministry on the Kerala HC staying the Environment ministry order on closing the mangrove park.
The SC ruled that the order by the Environment ministry to close the park without even issuing a notice to the Eco tourism committee, the owners of the park, is wrong. The SC requested the Environment ministry to issue a notice within a week to the Eco-tourism society and seek its reply.
On July 20, 2010, the Union ministry of Environment has ordered all construction works relating to the mangrove theme park in Pappinisseri to be stopped. The Kerala Divisional Bench had temporarily stayed the directive on August 19. In the midst of all these the Union Environment ministry had moved the Supreme Court.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the Pappinisseri mangrove park to stop all activities for a month. The SC directive comes while hearing a petition filed by the Union Forest and Environment Ministry on the Kerala HC staying the Environment ministry order on closing the mangrove park.
The SC ruled that the order by the Environment ministry to close the park without even issuing a notice to the Eco tourism committee, the owners of the park, is wrong. The SC requested the Environment ministry to issue a notice within a week to the Eco-tourism society and seek its reply.
On July 20, 2010, the Union ministry of Environment has ordered all construction works relating to the mangrove theme park in Pappinisseri to be stopped. The Kerala Divisional Bench had temporarily stayed the directive on August 19. In the midst of all these the Union Environment ministry had moved the Supreme Court.
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