RBNL continues to rally, up 5%

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• Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL) today climbed nearly 5 per cent to touch the upper circuit on the Bombay Stock Exchange, after the company announced raising over Rs 400 crore to fund its growth. [..]

Centre permits export of coconut oil from 13 ports

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• The Centre has granted permission for exporting about 10,000 tonnes of coconut oil from 13 ports, Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas said today. [..]

SNDP: Gokulam Gopalan writes to Home Minister

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• The tussle for power in SNDP got murkier with the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam,” Vedi chairman Gokulam Gopalan approaching the Home Minister alleging attempts to sabotage elections to the Yogam. [..]

Lottery vendor- wife commit suicide in Kollam

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• A lottery dealer and his wife from Kollam committed suicide by jumping before a train near Kayamkulam here on Wednesday. [..]

Local body polls to be conducted at one go: EC

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• State Election Commission has decided to conduct the local body polls at single phase. The decision came after the verdict of High Court on Tuesday ordering the conduct of polls at one go. [..]

Ready for public debate on Lottery row, says Chandy

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• In the wake of the of the lottery row in the State, Finance Minister Thomas Isaac and the Opposition leader Oommen Chandy have now stepped into an open dispute challenging each other raising certain allegations [..]

‘KTDC formulating medical tourism package’

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• The Kerala Tourism Development Corporation is working out a medical tourism package seeking to cash in on growing worldwide interest in the state as an ideal destination to combine treatment with holidaying. [..]

Lottery: Decision within two days, says Isaac

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• Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said that the Kerala government would take a decision on allowing other State lotteries within two days after studying the High Court verdict on the matter. [..]

Road works to be completed by September: Minister

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• State PWD minister M Vijaya Kumar today told that a sum of Rs 1048 crore would be spent for renovating roads in Kerala in four months. [..]

Decision on State lottery today: Thomas Isaac

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• Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said here that a decision on Kerala lotteries would be made by this evening. High Court earlier on the day in its verdict pronounced that lucky draw of both the Kerala and inter-State lotteries should be held once a week. [..]