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Protests erupt in Kerala over the Central government’s decision to name the second campus of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Thiruvananthapuram after RSS ideologue M.S. Golwalkar

R. Krishnakumar

The Narendra Modi-led Central government has announced that the second campus of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCBT) in Thiruvananthapur

Kerala local body elections

LDF track record overshadowed in run-up to local body elections in Kerala

R. Krishnakumar

The political discourse in Kerala ahead of the local body elections is focussed on the multitude of inquiries launched by Central and State agencies a

After a furore, Kerala government decides not to go ahead with implementing the amendment to the Kerala Police Act which stipulates imprisonment or a fine for defamatory content in the media

R. Krishnakumar

In the wake of widespread criticism from even pro-Left quarters, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala has decided not to go ahead with

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CPI(M) State secretary of Kerala Kodiyeri Balakrishnan goes on leave on medical grounds amidst political controversy surrounding his son’s arrest

R. Krishnakumar

The State secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kerala has accepted the request of its party secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan to go

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The arrests of M. Sivasankar, a high ranking IAS officer with the State government, and Bineesh Kodiyeri, State CPI(M) secretary’s son, hot up political climate in Kerala

R. Krishnakumar

The opposition parties in Kerala had a field day on October 29, with the Directorate of Enforcement (DoE) taking into custody the former Principal Sec

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COVID-19 Update

Kerala: In a vulnerable position

R. Krishnakumar

The big concern for the State is whether, despite the government’s best efforts, the sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 patients would cross the thr

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Kerala to launch first-ever basic price scheme for vegetables and other listed crops from November 1

R. Krishnakumar

Perhaps for the first time in the country, a State government has decided to fix a ‘basic price’ for a variety of vegetables and some other locally-gr

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Kerala government declares total digitalisation of school education

R. Krishnakumar

Kerala has become the first State in India to provide hi-tech classrooms in all government and aided schools and achieve total digitalisation of schoo

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Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government launches a welfare fund for farmers and starts paddy procurement through cooperative societies

R. Krishnakumar

A comprehensive welfare fund for farmers, a long-felt need in Kerala’s agriculture sector, is finally becoming a reality. The weekly Cabinet meeting h

Kerala: Cooperatives against corporates

R. Krishnakumar

Kerala may not be impacted by the new farm laws as much as certain other States, but it will have to face several challenges once those laws are imple

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Kesavananda Bharati: Unwitting saviour of democracy

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Kesavananda Bharati (1940-2020) never got the relief that he prayed for before the Supreme Court, but helped win the most significant decision in Indi

COVID-19 Update

Kerala local body polls: Mass mobilisation violating COVID safety norms

R. Krishnakumar

In Kerala, the opposition parties’ mass mobilisations for the local body elections violating COVID safety norms and the easing of restrictions could,

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From the heart, from Pakistan

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Rakhshanda Jalil’s series introduces Pakistani women poets to Hindi readers.

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Sea change

India could learn a few lessons from small island nations like Maldives on mitigating climate change.