Piravom

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  Migrant Worker Found Living In Dog Kennel On Rent In Kerala, Probe Ordered

  A section of media has reported about a migrant worker from West Bengal who was found living in an old kennel located on the premises of a house owned by a native of Piravom in Ernakulam district.

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  High Drama At Kerala Church, Top Priests Court Arrest, Cops Break Gates

  A sixth-century church in Kerala's Ernakulam is at the center of high tension between two Christian factions after top priests and followers of one of the sects refused to vacate the church complex following a 2017 Supreme Court order. Several top priests courted arrest as the police broke open the church gate and took the protesters away.

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  Police Deployed To Evacuate Kerala Church Return Amidst Suicide Threats

  Sabarimala is not the only place the Kerala police is having trouble enforcing Supreme Court orders. A riverside church in rural Ernakulam's Piravom was at the centre of a dramatic stand-off between police and a faction of Christians for nearly five hours on Monday.

• Man arrested for planting detonator on rail track in Kerala

  Police on Saturday arrested a 37-year-old man who was suspected to have planted a crude explosive device on the rail track near Piravom Road station between Kottayam and Kochi earlier this week.

• Suspicious object on track, train services disrupted

  Train traffic between Kottayam and Ernakulam was disrupted for an hour today as an object which looked like a "steel bomb" was found on the railway bridge near Piravom Road station, police said.

• Trouble brewing in Kerala's ruling alliance

  Trouble is brewing in Kerala's ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) alliance, barely a week after its outstanding win in the Piravom assembly bypoll. A worried Congress has now sought more time from its allies to defuse the crisis.

• Anoop Jacob takes oath as MLA

  Anoop Jacob, who was elected to Kerala assembly from Piravom as UDF candidate, took oath as member of the House today. In the bypoll necessitated following the death of his father T M Jacob, Anoop retained the seat for Kerala Congress (Jacob) with an impressive margin of 12,070 votes over his CPI-M rival M J Jacob when the votes were counted yeste...

• Kerala by-poll: Win for ruling alliance

  Kerala's ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) on Wednesday won the Piravom by-election with Anup Jacob defeating his Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) rival by more than 12,000 votes.