The Kerala SSLC (Secondary School Leaving Certificate) Examination held in 2008 March 12 to March 27 with 10 papers under GRADING scheme.

The government is withdrawing around 46,000 passports issued under the Z-series and has asked holders of such passports to get these replaced by submitting fresh applications.

A man allegedly raped his daughter when he was in an inebriated state, police said today. A resident of Vaishali Nagar locality here was arrested yesterday following a complaint by his daughter who accused him of raping her.

The accused, hailing from Maharashtra, is working in an iron factory and had recently brought his daughter here from his native state, police said.

Huge stocks of chillies were gutted in a major fire that destroyed over 500 shops at a market yard in Guntur and the loss is estimated to be around Rs 20 crore. The fire was noticed at 0900 hours in one of the shops at Asia's biggest chilli market yard and soon spread to the neighbouring areas, police and fire officials said.

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island today but there was no threat of a tsunami and no immediate reports of damage, geologists said. The epicenter of the tremor, which was 10 kilometers deep and struck at 10:53 a.M local time, was 53 kilometres southeast of Mukomuko city, according to meteorology and geophysics agency.

Iron Man is a 2008 superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Iron Man, released in various countries. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film is about Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), a billionaire industrialist who is captured by terrorists in Afghanistan. Ordered to build a missile for them, Stark uses his resources instead to build a powered exoskeleton to make his escape.

Two ethnic Indian Sikhs have entered record books in this multi-ethnic country, by producing the first Malaysian local Bhangra album. Manjit Singh Gill and Sukhjit Singh Gill, popularly known as Goldkartz, have written and produced their first Bhangra album called 'Loaded', which has a mix of hip hop, rap, R&B, reggae, house and trance music.

Keen to visit the popular film shooting locations in the country, cinema lovers from India and other countries are flocking to Britain, boosting its tourism by 2 billion pounds.

An official posted at the Indian Embassy in Beijing has been sent back to Delhi in the wake of allegations that he had developed some liaison with a Chinese woman. First Secretary M M Sharma, originally from the RAW, was shifted after his alleged connections with the Chinese language teacher came to light recently, sources said.

The Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, has invited applications for an entrance and aptitude test to be held at Mysore and New Delhi on July 20 for admission to the two-year M.Sc. food technology course.