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Chief Minister Pinarai Vijayan inaugurating Onam Week Celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.

Bangalore: Hundreds of Keralites employed in Bangalore, who were to travel to Kerala for Onam, are stranded in Bangalore following cancellation of bus services.

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Vigilance and Anti-corruption Bureau will target zero tolerance to corruption within three years through a basket of creative measures and methods.

These will include nurturing of bold whistle blowers in all departments and offer them protection. The Department has already roped in NGOs in its fight against corruption.

Thiruvananthapuram: The second session of the Assembly beginning on September 26 will have 29 sittings, stretching into November.

As per the calendar of sittings published by the Legislature Secretariat, the session will continue till November 10.  However, there will be a week’s break in the second week of October to coincide with Mahanavami and Muharram.

India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, equipped with the indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS), successfully launched the country's weather satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Thursday.

The achieved orbit is very close to the intended one. The launch took place from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota, the spaceport of India.

This was the first operational flight of GSLV equipped with CUS and the fourth to carry the indigenous CUS.  Today’s GSLV flight was the third consecutive success achieved by GSLV carrying indigenous CUS and the 2211 kg INSAT-3DR is the heaviest satellite to be launched from the Indian soil.