Thiruvananthapuram, July 3 (IANS) In a significant move that signals closer scrutiny of the functioning of the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC), a constitutional body entrusted with recruitment to State government services, the Chief Minister Satheesan-led Kerala government has directed all department heads to report vacancies to the Commission within three weeks, warning of disciplinary action against officials who fail to comply.The directive, issued by the Administrative Reforms Departm…
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Thiruvananthapuram, July 1 (IANS) A major evaluation lapse in the Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) has snowballed into a political controversy, casting fresh doubts over the recruitment process for senior positions in the State Planning Board and triggering demands for an independent, high-level investigation.Sports Minister O.J. Jenish, who is also the Youth Congress president, on Wednesday came down heavily on the PSC, saying the episode had shaken the confidence of thousands of job asp…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 30 (IANS) Hours before Kerala Chief Secretary A. Jayathilak laid down office on Tuesday evening after more than three decades in the civil service, senior IAS officer N. Prasanth rekindled one of the state’s most public bureaucratic feuds with an unusually sharp social media post that many viewed as a direct indictment of the outgoing top bureaucrat.Without naming Jayathilak anywhere in the text, Prasanth shared a photograph of the Chief Secretary alongside a lengthy ess…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 30 (IANS) Mounting complaints over recruitment procedures in the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) have prompted the state government to closely monitor developments even as the Commission’s Internal Vigilance Wing has begun examining allegations relating to the selection for three Chief-level posts in the State Planning Board.Government sources said Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan has received representations from job aspirants and various organisations expressing co…
Kochi, June 29 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the alleged Sabarimala gold misappropriation case, on Monday widened its investigation by naming former Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) President P.S. Prasanth, former Board member A. Ajikumar and the then Board members as accused, making it the third successive board to face criminal proceedings in the high-profile case.Prasanth was a Congress leader and, after unsuccessfully contesting the 2021 Assembly polls, joined the CPI-M…
Kochi, June 29 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Monday issued notice to the ninth accused in the case relating to the alleged attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials during a search at the rented residence of former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan and his daughter, while raising searching questions over the progress of the police investigation and the State’s plea to cancel his bail.Justice C.S. Dias was hearing a petition filed by the State challenging the o…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 29 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan on Monday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, seeking his urgent intervention in the reported denial of passport renewal to veteran journalist and editor R. Rajagopal, even as Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan flagged concerns over citizens’ rights.In a statement on X, Satheesan said he had requested Adhikari to personally intervene after reports that Rajagopal’s passport renewal had been held up …
Thiruvananthapuram, June 28 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into allegations of large-scale financial irregularities in donations collected from devotees and the public for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. In a Facebook post, the senior CPI(M) leader and former Chief Minister described the reports of alleged financial misconduct as “extremely serious”, and said they raised disturbing question…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 27 (IANS) The CPI-M’s long-held claim that it pursued a policy of reducing liquor consumption through regulation rather than prohibition has come under renewed scrutiny, with official documents and administrative decisions from the previous LDF-led Kerala government painting a sharply different picture of its decade in power in the state. Fresh disclosures relating to the grant of bar licenses and the entry of multinational liquor giant Bacardi into Kerala’s low-alcohol …
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The CPI-M Politburo has ruled out any immediate leadership change in Kerala despite the party’s crushing Assembly election defeat, effectively giving former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and State secretary M.V. Govindan a reprieve while directing the state unit to undertake sweeping organisational reforms.At its two-day meeting that ended in New Delhi on Saturday, the Politburo concluded that the electoral setback stemmed largely from flawed candidate selection, orga…