PATHANAMTHITTA: A moving KSRTC bus that was on its way to pick up Sabarimala devotees caught fire at Attathodu between Nilakkal and Pampa in the early hours of Sunday. He said they also stopped other vehicles on the route and used around eight extinguishers to try and stop the fire. As soon as the fire department received an alert, three …
The Kerala High Court, on an experiment basis, has allowed parking of motor cars carrying pilgrims in Chakkupallam-II and Hilltop area in the upcoming Makaravilakku season. In cases, KSRTC require additional parking space, they shall inform it to the Special Commissioner, who shall after consultation with the police permit such additional parking area. The Court emphasized that this is to …
The Competition Commission of India comprising Ravneet Kaur, Mr. Anil Agrawal, and Ms. Sweta Kakkad closed the complaint filed by Mr. The CCI held that the exclusivity granted to OP by the Kerala Government for operations in public interest cannot be said to be anti-competitive under the Act. The Kerala Government approved a scheme to provide efficient, adequate, economical, and …
The Kerala High on Monday issued directions for crowd management in Sabarimala Temple, anticipating heavy footfall for the upcoming days amid Mandala festival. State has also decided to limit the number of online virtual queue bookings to 90,000 per day, Senior Government Pleader informed the Court. On Sunday, the Court held a Special online sitting to consider issues of crowd …
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday ordered the Devaswom Commissioner to institute disciplinary action against employees of the Travancore Devaswom Board who failed to report for special duty at Sabarimala, Pampa and Nilakkal.While issuing the directive, a Division Bench of Justice Anil K. Narendran and Justice P.G Ajithkumar recorded that it is the surplus income from the Sabarimala Temple. The …
The Kerala High Court has directed the State and the Travancore Devaswom Board to broadly promulgate the facilities recently made available to Sabarimala pilgrims to facilitate entry to more devotees to the temple and to attend darshan therein, in view of the two month pilgrimage season.In a suo moto matter taken up based on the Sabarimala Special Commissioner's report, the …
The Kerala High Court on Friday ruled that the validity of seats registered for Sabarimala darshan through spot booking cannot be confined to 2 days as followed presently. A Division Bench comprising Justices Anil K. Narendran and P.G Ajithkumar emphasised that the very purpose of introducing spot booking centres was to enable devotees who did not have the required facilities …
