On Friday, the BJP in Kerala made a sea change with the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the assembly elections. Hours after the party he declared that E Sreedharan, popularly known as ‘Metro Man’, would be candidate for chief minister of the partyThe BJP head of state, K Surendran, wanted …
Read More »Recipe Video: SC Grants Partial Relief to Kerala Activist Rehana Fathima
On Monday, the High Court partially suspended the order of the Kerala High Court that prohibited former BSNL employee Rehana Fathima from posting, transmitting, sharing, uploading or disseminating any material or comment through any visual and electronic public medium, but ordered a ban on her from spreading any comment. that …
Read More »Karnataka wedding guest bus encounters accident in Kasaragod, 7 die
The bus fell off a cliff and crashed into a house in Kasaragod, Kerala. A private bus, heading from Karnataka to Kerala’s KasAragod for a wedding function, encountered an accident in the district. Kasaragod District Collector D Sajith Babu confirmed the deaths of seven people, including two children. Many have …
Read More »Oil sardines return to Kerala coast, but fishermen must wait
After years of under-yielding Indian oil sardines along the Kerala coast, researchers at the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) have said that the state’s staple fish appears to be on the way to rebirth. Thanks to the favorable conditions of the marine ecosystem, scattered batches of immature sardines have …
Read More »Hours After Backing Assembly Resolution On Farm Laws, Kerala BJP MLA Says Opposed
Although O Rajagopal had abstained from voting, he had told the media after the session that he was in favor of the resolution. Hours after stating that he endorsed the resolution passed by the Kerala Assembly seeking the withdrawal of agricultural laws from the Union government, BJP MLA O Rajagopal …
Read More »Kerala’s only BJP MLA backs Assembly resolution against farm laws
Within the assembly, O Rajagopal defended some parts of the agricultural laws, but later said that he supports the assembly’s resolution. In an unusual political situation emerging from Kerala, the only member of the BJP Legislative Assembly backed the resolution passed in the assembly on Thursday seeking the withdrawal of …
Read More »You all killed my parents … now you won’t let me bury you: son’s pain, anger shake a state
“You all killed my father, sir… You all killed my parents. Now you say I can’t even bury them? yells the anguished young man in the maroon shirt, fiercely beating a garden hoe on the ground. A police officer tries to reason with him and tells him to stop digging. …
Read More »‘It was the police who killed them’: Son of Kerala couple who succumbed to burns
The more important question is why the police were in a hurry to evict the couple, since the same day the court suspended the eviction. Rahul (23) seems distant from the outside world, gazes into the distance as he struggles to speak amidst sobs. Sitting in a small room in …
Read More »Kerala: Arya Rajendran, 21, elected as the youngest mayor of Thiruvananthapuram
Arya Rajendran, a 21-year-old CPI (M) leader, was sworn in on Monday as the youngest mayor of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Kerala’s largest urban body. Tax collector Navjot Khosa took the oath of office to Rajendran inside a packed council room that made history after the latter was elected mayor with 54 …
Read More »51-year-old woman dies from electrocution in Kerala, police arrest her husband
The Thiruvananthapuram couple had recently married. After a 51-year-old woman was found dead at her residence in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday morning, the police detained her husband. The deceased, Sakha Kumari, was found electrocuted at her residence in the Karakonam neighborhood. While her husband Arun, 29, claimed that Sakha died after …
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