Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 12 (IANS) The controversy surrounding eminent poet, critic and Kerala Sahitya Akademi President K. Satchidanandan’s remarks on the need for governments to alternate in power shows little sign of abating, even as the writer has now said he will not comment further on the issue. Days after his initial observation triggered sharp reactions, particularly from sections aligned with the CPI-M, Satchidanandan had returned to social media with a detailed post situating his positi…
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Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 2 (IANS) The Congress on Monday intensified its attack on the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government by launching a website and releasing a charge sheet under the banner of the ‘Kadakku Purathu’ campaign, reviving a phrase that has come to symbolise his combative relationship with the media and critics.The campaign derives its name from a 2017 incident when Chief Minister Vijayan abruptly told journalists to “Kadakku Purathu” (Malayalam for “get out”) during a peace m…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 22 (IANS) What began as a brief moment in the kitchen of a Kerala household during a CPI(M) door-to-door campaign has snowballed into a political and social media storm, turning an ordinary domestic gesture into a contested political symbol ahead of the Assembly elections.The incident occurred when CPI(M) General Secretary M.A. Baby, while visiting a family in Thrissur as part of the Left Front’s grassroots outreach, walked into the kitchen and began washing his plate a…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 21 (IANS) Vellappally Natesan of the SNDP Yogam and G. Sukumaran Nair of the Nair Service Society (NSS) are once again making headlines as efforts to unite the two dominant Hindu social organisations in Kerala gain momentum.Sukumaran Nair on Wednesday welcomed the SNDP Yogam to Perunna, the NSS headquarters, asserting that the proposed SNDP-NSS unity is “certain” and dismissing political apprehensions surrounding the move.“They are welcome to Perunna. When Tushar Ve…
Kochi, Jan 19 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday struck a defiant ideological note in Kochi as he addressed a mammoth Maha Panchayat gathering of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), congratulating nearly 7,800 Congress representatives who emerged victorious in the December 2025 local body elections.The programme marked the UDF’s first major post-poll mobilisation and underlined its renewed confidence ahead of the Assembly elections.Hailing the man…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 1 (IANS) For nearly a decade, Pinarayi Vijayan has dominated Kerala’s political landscape with an authority that a few Chief Ministers in the state’s history have wielded.Within the CPI(M), he has emerged as the unchallenged helmsman and within the government, the final arbiter. That aura of invincibility, however, is beginning to fray — and the most telling sign is not coming from the opposition, but from within the Left Democratic Front (LDF) itself.The first salvo…
Bengaluru, Dec 30 (IANS) Commenting on the controversy regarding demolition drive to recover the government land by the Congress-led Karnataka government in Bengaluru and announcement of rehabilitation after All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) intervention, Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, Shobha Karandlaje, on Tuesday, asked why the politics of the Kerala elections appeared to be influencing the develop…