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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan (right) and Law Minister P. Rajeeve in Kochi on January 6. The State government is firm that the 23-year-old law needs amendment and cites legal advice given by the Advocate General a year earlier that some of its key provisions go against the Constitution.

Ordinance route to amend Kerala Lok Ayukta Act: Diluting a law?

The Kerala government’s plan to pass an ordinance amending key provisions of the Kerala Lok Ayukta Act, 1999, when the Assembly session is just around

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Bishop Franco Mulakkal leaving the Additional District & Sessions Court after he was acquitted in the rape case, in Kottayam on January 14.

Nun rape case: Justice on trial

A trial court’s verdict acquitting the Bishop of Jalandhar accused of raping a nun gets criticised for ignoring changes in the country’s rape laws and

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A ward in the jumbo COVID Care Centre at Vashi in Navi Mumbai on January 11.

COVID: Swift spread of Omicron variant across States in third wave

The surge in test positivity rate across the country in early January signals the arrival of the third wave of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, helmed this time

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Bishop Franco Mulakkal leaving the Additional District & Sessions Court in Kottayam on January 14 after he was acquitted in a rape case.

Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun, acquitted; fellow nuns say they did not get justice

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Governor Arif Mohammed Khan speaking to the media in Kochi on January 2.

A Chancellor and a politician: Crisis brews in Kerala's universities

Governor Arif Mohammed Khan alleges political interference in universities in Kerala, declares he will no longer be the Chancellor and triggers a poli

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A protest against the Silverline project led by the UDF district committee outside the Thrissur Collectorate on December 19.

Kerala's SilverLine: Putting a project on track

The LDF government in Kerala takes determined steps to go ahead with the SilverLine project, a semi high-speed rail corridor, but opposition to the pr

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The Western Ghat mountains in Kerala’s Wayanad district.

United on exclusion: States insist on demarcating more area in the Western Ghats from 'ecologically sensitive' category

The validity of the Centre’s fourth draft notification on ecologically sensitive areas in the Western Ghats will end soon. But Kerala stands firm on e

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Kodiyeri Balakrishnan addressing the media after his reinstatement as the CPI(M) State Secretary, in Thiruvananthapuram on December 3.

Kodiyeri Balakrishnan returns as CPI(M) State secretary in Kerala

In November last year, the CPI(M) announced that Balakrishnan was going "on leave" from his post for medical treatment. The decision coincided with th

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A character actor par excellence

Nedumudi Venu (1948-2021) was well-known for the variety and depth of characters he portrayed both in parallel cinema, which launched him as an actor

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Joseph Kallarangattu,

Pulpit polemics: Bishop’s homily on ‘narcotic jehad’ catches Kerala by surprise

The timing of a bishop’s warning to his flock against the dangers of ‘narcotic jehad’ and his vehemence catch Kerala by surprise. And the BJP finds in

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Kannur University in the eye of a storm over inclusion of works of Savarkar and Golwalkar and other Hindutva icons for course in a postgraduate programme

A major academic and political controversy has risen in Kerala over the inclusion of excerpts from the works of Hindutva ideologues such as V.D. Savar

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Members of the ruling party and the opposition engaged in a heated exchange during a protest in the Kerala Assembly by the LDF, which was then in the opposition, against Finance Minister K.M. Mani, who was presenting the Budget amidst corruption charges, on March 13, 2015.

Supreme Court reiterates limits of legislative privileges while disallowing Kerala’s plea

The Supreme Court disallows the Kerala government’s plea to withdraw cases against legislators accused of vandalism in the Assembly in 2015.

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