Kochi, March 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday used the golden jubilee celebrations of the Kerala Dheevara Sabha in Kochi to praise the fisher community and highlight the Centre’s initiatives aimed at strengthening the fisheries sector, in what is widely seen as an outreach to a politically-influential coastal population in the state.PM Modi is in Kochi for a few hours today and this was his first programme of the day.Addressing a large gathering at the event marking the orga…
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Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (IANS) When the next Kerala Assembly elections are held, most likely in April–May, they will be the first polls in over five decades without Congress leader and former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.However, the candidates of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) are likely to begin their campaign from his grave in Puthupally.Among the Congress’s most popular faces, its most tireless campaigner and its most dependable vote mobiliser, Chandy, a two-time Chief …
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…