Kerala CM demands Union Govt to examine the propriety of Governor Khan’s actions

Kerala CM demands Union Govt to examine the propriety of Governor Khan’s actions

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. | Photo Credit: S. Mahinsha Accusing Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan of attempts to create maximum provocation in every issue, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the Union Government should examine the propriety of the Governor’s repeated breaches of protocol. He was speaking to media persons at Pathanamthitta on December … Read more

Kerala Chief Minister’s security detail comes under fire for baton-charging black flag protesters in Alappuzha

Kerala Chief Minister’s security detail comes under fire for baton-charging black flag protesters in Alappuzha

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Cabinet colleagues during the Navakerala Sadas at Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s personal security detail has come under scathing criticism for “overstepping” the bounds of their official duty and “assaulting” Kerala Students Union (KSU) activists who staged a black … Read more

4-year-old Kerala boy strangled by mentally unsound relative

4-year-old Kerala boy strangled by mentally unsound relative

A four-year-old boy met a tragic end after he was strangled to death allegedly by a paternal relative in this district, police said on Tuesday. The gruesome murder was allegedly committed by the victim’s aunt who was reportedly mentally unsound. The 29-year-old woman is currently hospitalized with injuries, suspected to have been inflicted by herself … Read more

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar says he will not accept random labelling as ‘communal element’

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar says he will not accept random labelling as ‘communal element’

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar (file) | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said he feels branding him as a communal element is “akin to terming Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a humanist.” Speaking at a function organised by the India Minority Forum on empowering minority communities in Kochi on December 1 (Friday), … Read more

Shihab Thangal’s is the final word for IUML, asserts P.K. Kunhalikutty

Shihab Thangal’s is the final word for IUML, asserts P.K. Kunhalikutty

P.K. Kunhalikutty (file) | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) national general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty has asserted that the party’s president Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal’s will be the last word for the IUML. Addressing the media at his house at Karathodu near here on November 21, 2023, Mr. Kunhalikutty said that “Panakkad … Read more

Don’t insist on security documents from farmers under Paddy Procurement Scheme: Kerala High Court tells banks

Don’t insist on security documents from farmers under Paddy Procurement Scheme: Kerala High Court tells banks

The Kerala High Court building in Ernakulam (file) | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU The Kerala High Court has observed that the credit rating of farmers who effectively sell their paddy to the government under the Paddy Procurement Scheme (PRS) can never be affected as the court has already held that they cannot not be construed to be … Read more

Complaint of woman journalist | Suresh Gopi to appear before investigating officer on November 15

Complaint of woman journalist | Suresh Gopi to appear before investigating officer on November 15

Suresh Gopi | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Actor and politician Suresh Gopi will appear before the investigating officer at Nadakkavu police station in Kozhikode city on November 15 in connection with the case registered against him recently on the charges of misbehaving with a woman visual media journalist. Police proceed with the further legal action … Read more

Maoists in Wayanad: Kerala Police carry out combing operations following gun battle

Maoists in Wayanad: Kerala Police carry out combing operations following gun battle

The Special Operations Group and the Thunderbolt Squad had followed the Maoists to the house based on intelligence inputs. (picture for representational purposes) | Photo Credit: K. RAGESH The Special Operations Group (SOG) and the Thunderbolt Squad of the Kerala Police are continuing combing operations in rural Kozhikode and the Periya forest region following an encounter … Read more

Kerala government moves Supreme Court against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan over pending Bills

Kerala government moves Supreme Court against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan over pending Bills

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan | Photo Credit: PTI The Kerala government has sought a declaration from the Supreme Court that Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has “failed to exercise his Constitutional powers and duties” in holding the Bills passed by the State Legislature for a long and indefinite period. Kerala raised the demand in a … Read more

Survey begins to recover excess land owned by Kerala MLA P.V. Anvar

Survey begins to recover excess land owned by Kerala MLA P.V. Anvar

P.V. Anvar, MLA | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Revenue department in Kerala has started survey measures to recover the excess land possessed by P.V. Anvar, MLA, at Kakkadampoyil in Kozhikode district. The action comes in the wake of a recent order by the Thamarassery Taluk Land Use Board. According to Revenue department sources, the … Read more