"We know that the communists do not respect the Indian history, culture and spirituality but nobody imagined they would have such hatred," the prime minister said.
This was the third official visit of the prime minister to Kollam. His first visit to the city was in December 2015, when he unveiled the statue of R Sankar. The prime minister also visited Kollam in April 2016, hours after a fire tragedy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Odisha and Kerala on Tuesday to launch a series of developmental projects, including a railway line and a highway bypass.
Booking.com, one of the world's leading digital travel platforms, on Saturday revealed that Kerala toped the list with five out of 10 most welcoming tourist destinations in India.
Hrithik Roshan and Jacqueline Fernandez have joined an NGO to help rebuild homes in Kerala that was hit by massive floods in 2018.
Agitators blocked the railway tracks and raised slogans. Buses and auto-rickshaws were kept off roads during the strike.
Vijayan asked the BJP national leadership to instruct its cadre in Kerala to stop creating violence in the state.
Kerala has been rocked by protests by right-wing groups after two women of "menstruating age" offered prayers at the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala on January 2.
The development did not go down well with the temple authorities, with the head priest ordering devotees out of the premises and closing doors to the sanctum sanctorum. He performed a “purification” ritual for an hour before the doors were opened again.
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93-year-old E K Narayanan Nambiar was 17 and Sarada was 13 (89) when the two entered into wedlock.
The two meetings to be addressed by Modi will also virtually turn out to be the curtain raiser to the BJP's campaigns for the coming Lok Sabha elections in the southern state.
The night belonged to Sougou, who scored in the 12th, 15th, 30th minute and second half injury time, as he made a mockery of Kerala's defence at the Mumbai Football Arena.
Interacting with party workers in the state as part of his nation-wide dialogue with BJP workers in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, Modi said there should be no let-up in their efforts to spread public awareness as he referred to a "sad news".
Three buses parked at the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation depot were stoned by a group of people at Palghat, as the state run KRCTC was not operating its services.
The saffron party took the decision for the shutdown after a devotee of Lord Ayyappa set himself on fire at a BJP protest venue in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
As soon the House assembled for the day, opposition MLAs trooped in with banners and placards, raising slogans demanding the withdrawal of prohibitory orders at the hill shrine of Lord Ayyappa.
This is the second case related to the Sabarimala protests in which the BJP leader had been granted bail.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the state government's fresh plea against the appointment of a three-member panel would be taken up in regular court.
The team of France’s anti-terror agency will be in Kerala till Friday to interrogate Subahani Haja Moideen, a resident of Thodupuzha, at the Central jail in Thrissur district.
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