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The on-going rumblings within the Congress party in Kerala took a new twist yesterday with Chief Minister A.K. Antony getting support from the 'Third Group' within the party.

The city police have launched a hunt to track down those behind a major sex trade-cum-porn film racket involving schoolgirls.

The Kerala Association of Travel Agents has threatened to stage an indefinite sit-in demonstration in front of the Air India office if it continued to neglect the interests of the Thiruvananthapuram international airport here.

The 24-hour general strike in Kerala called by nine trade unions in protest against the United Democratic Front (UDF) government's "anti-people and anti-labour policies" threw normal life throughout the state out of gear.

The Kerala government took a major step forward in abolishing labour militancy in the state by passing the controversial Kerala Loading and Unloading (Regulation of Wages and Restriction of Unlawful Practices) Bill late on Friday.

K.J. Joseph, Director General of Kerala Police, yesterday denied allegations that the 17-year-old victim of the Kochi sex racket was in illegal police custody and confinement.

The girl victimised in the infamous Suryanelli sex abuse case has filed a written complaint to the state Human Rights Commission against harassment by officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The police policy of the Kerala government has emerged as a bone of contention in the latest round of bickering in the Congress party.

Investors, including a number of non-resident Keralites (NRKs), in a group farming venture in Tamil Nadu, say they have been duped by the farm promoter – a noted Kerala politician – and are initiating legal steps against him.

The row over the fake police record linking Tourism Minister K.V. Thomas with the Rs3.36-billion hawala scandal yesterday took a new turn with a Kochi businessman, whose residence and offices were raided over the weekend, charging that Thomas himself was behind the forgery.

Amid a spate of brickbats thrown at the Global Investors Meet (GIM) scheduled to be held here between January 18 and 19, the Anti-foreign Monopoly Capital Action Council has come out vowing to block the event.

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Muraleedharan yesterday announced the expulsion of the party's MLA from Chengannur, Shobhana George, from the party for five years.