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Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Centre’s decision to repeal the three agricultural laws, farmers' unions have said they will continue their protests until the government fulfils their other demands including the implementation of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for farm produce. The three farm laws – Farmers’ Produce Trade...

In a major development in the controversial missing baby case of Anupama S Chandran in Kerala, the Child Welfare Committee in Thiruvananthapuram has issued an order directing the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare (KSCCW) to bring back the child to Kerala within five days.

It’s been a week since Anupama S Chandran, who alleges her newborn was snatched away from her and put up for adoption, has been staging an indefinite strike outside the state government adoption agency Kerala State Council for Child Welfare (KSCCW), demanding the return of her child. But 22-year-old Anupama says her demands and pleas to the Kerala ...

The Kerala High Court set aside the 60 days time limit set by a lower court on Tuesday, on the anticipatory bail granted to former Kerala DGP Siby Mathews, who is facing a CBI probe for allegedly falsely implicating former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan in a spying case in 1994. Justice K. Haripal had allowed Mathews’ plea, challenging the 60 da...

Heavy rains continue to lash parts of Kerala on Monday (November 15), affecting Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Kottayam districts, leading to the death of three people and widespread damage to property. The India Meteorological Department has issued an Orange alert on Monday for the districts of Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Kannur and...

With heavy rains lashing various parts of Kerala since Saturday night, water level has reached the red alert level in various dams in the state, flooding several roads by Sunday morning. The weather department said the situation is expected to continue, especially in the southern parts of the state, for the next two days. The Idukki district ...

The ongoing surge of COVID in European countries, especially among fully vaccinated people there, has put Kerala on alert. “Because Kerala is more epidemiologically similar to the European countries than other Indian states,” says Dr Anish TS, a member of the expert committee advising the Kerala government on pandemic control. In Kerala too, ...

Joju George, an actor hitting all the right notes, appears to have found himself on a befuddling character arc in Kerala’s political theatre. He has irked the Indian National Congress, the state’s primary opposition party, by questioning its road blockades against the rise in fuel prices. The Congress’ response also strikes you as unfamiliar role-p...

The Kerala government has urged people of the state to be vigilant in the wake of norovirus cases being confirmed in the northern district of Wayanad. Health Minister Veena George said that people need to be vigilant about the 'very contagious virus' that caused vomiting and diarrhea. .' In Kerala, the norovirus was reported in 13 students of...

The Youth Congress (YC) in Kerala is apparently cutting a sorry figure as its all-out ‘war against actor Joju George’ turns counterproductive by the day. The Congress party’s youth wing trained its guns on the Malayalam actor who objected to their road blockade against fuel hike. The party workers have been interrupting film shooting schedules on t...

The Kerala government, which is facing the heat from the Opposition over the alleged grant of permission to Tamil Nadu to clear 15 trees in the downstream of the baby dam at Mullaperiyar Dam, is yet to present a clear story on the matter. While the Tamil Nadu government insists on getting a permission to cut the trees from the Kerala forest depa...

The Kerala government said on Tuesday that their objective is to renew the Parambikulam-Aliyar agreement, a decades-old river water-sharing pact with neighbouring Tamil Nadu, by completely protecting the interests of the state through talks. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the state Assembly that though the review talks began in 1988...

The Kerala government has frozen the order issued by its forest department that granted permission to Tamil Nadu to fell trees in Mullaperiyar. The permission was reportedly granted to Tamil Nadu without the state machinery and key ministers even having a whiff of it. Kerala forest minister AK Saseendran has said that officer who is responsible ...

The Centre’s decision to slash excise duty on petrol and diesel has mounted pressure on the Kerala government to reduce the oil taxes. While states like Gujarat, Karnataka, Assam, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh have cut down their fuel taxes, the Opposition in Kerala has demanded the government to take similar initiatives in the state. State Finance ...

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The Kerala High Court has on Tuesday (November 3) come down heavily on resident associations that bar people from keeping pets, and even prohibiting pet-owners to use elevators and common facilities in apartment buildings. The two judge bench declared such behaviour as “illegal, unconstitutional and unenforceable”.

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (November 2) granted bail to Swapna Suresh, Sarith PS and six others in the gold smuggling case registered by National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Suresh, who has been behind the bars since June 2020, was granted relief on a bail bond of ₹25 lakh and two solve...

The Kerala government has not yet been able to tell a family court in Thiruvananthapuram how a child believed to be Anupama Chandran’s was brought into the adoption pool despite being asked repeatedly.

The Kochi police has issued a non-bailable warrant against Congress workers who allegedly vandalised Malayalam actor Joju George’s car on Monday (November 1). George had had an argument with Congress workers protesting against fuel price hike on the Edappally-Vytilla stretch of the National Highway No. 66 on Monday morning. The actor questioned ...

Kerala has to brace itself for more rainfall as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday issued orange and yellow alerts for various state districts for the next four days. Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottyam, Ernakulum, Idukki, Palakkad, Malappuram and Thrissur are the 10 districts set for ‘moderate’ to ‘...