Wayanad, May 26 (IANS) Assuring immediate support to the bereaved family, Kerala Forest Minister Shibhu Baby John on Tuesday said all necessary steps would be taken to provide compensation and other assistance following the latest fatal wild elephant attack in Wayanad, which took place on Tuesday.The Minister said forest officials had been directed to ensure that peace and normalcy return to the area where the incident occurred and added that the government would intensify measures to address th…
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Thiruvananthapuram, May 22 (IANS) After T. Siddique took oath as Kerala’s Agriculture Minister, one of the first calls he received was not from political leaders or bureaucrats, but from a group of students from the tragedy scarred Mundakkai–Chooralmala region of Wayanad. The video call which took place on Thursday quickly turned emotional.”When nobody else was there, you stood with us like strength and shelter,” the students told him, their voices carrying memories of loss, uncertainty and su…
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) ‘Kerala will never forgive you’ — the posters are likely to haunt the Gandhi siblings for a long time. These were not ordinary political posters meant to mock a leader or score a point. They were a bitter reflection of the kind of politics the Congress high command has increasingly found itself engaged in. The posters mysteriously appeared in Wayanad, targeting Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over the Congress leadership’s inability to decide between K.C. V…
Wayanad, May 13 (IANS) Ten days after the Congress-led UDF stormed to power in Kerala with one of its most emphatic victories in recent political history, the alliance still finds itself trapped in an embarrassing deadlock over the choice of Chief Minister, exposing deep cracks within the party and triggering public anger that has now spilled onto the streets of Wayanad.In a sharp and unprecedented escalation, anonymous posters targeting Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra appeared near the W…
Kochi, May 5 (IANS) Kerala delivered a decisive and sweeping mandate in the Assembly elections, with the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) storming to power and dismantling the entrenched strongholds of the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) across the state. In an outcome marked by scale and symbolism, the UDF registered a clean sweep in five districts — Malappuram, Wayanad, Ernakulam, Kottayam and Idukki, leaving the LDF without a single seat in these regions.The LDF was further …
Thiruvananthapuram, May 4 (IANS) As the scale of the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) victory became clear, senior Congress leaders framed the verdict as both an endorsement of public trust and a call to rebuild Kerala’s governance framework.Even as the final tally has not yet been declared by the Election Commission, the UDF has touched 102 seats, the Left stands at 35, and the BJP has won three seats, according to trends available so far.Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who campaigned extensiv…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 1 (IANS) Kerala stands on the cusp of a potentially decisive political shift, as yet another exit poll that was published on Friday joins the several others in overwhelmingly predicting a return to power for the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).The latest survey by ‘Marunadan Malayali’ reinforces this trend, indicating a strong anti-incumbency wave against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.Based on an assessment ac…
Wayanad, April 27 (IANS) Almost two years after the devastating landslide wiped out homes and upended lives in Chooralmala, Wayanad, hope has finally taken concrete shape for 51 families who lost everything. On Monday, these families stepped into their new houses in a rehabilitation township built at Meppadi, marking a deeply emotional return to stability and dignity.The township, constructed by the second biggest ally in the Congress-led UDF- Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), spans 11.5 acres …
Thiruvananthapuram April 20 (IANS) The controversy over cracks and leakages in newly-built houses in a government township project in Kerala’s landslide-struck Wayanad intensified on Monday with Revenue and Housing Minister K. Rajan issuing a fresh clarification even as criticism mounted from opposition parties and on social media.Addressing a press conference, Rajan said water seepage had been detected in two houses and that he personally inspected them to verify whether the affected portions h…
Kalpetta, April 18 (IANS) Mounting concerns over the rehabilitation of landslide survivors in Wayanad have come into sharp focus, as Kerala Revenue Minister K. Rajan’s visit on Saturday to the township project at Elston Estate triggered fresh debate over construction quality, delays, and accountability. The Minister inspected a house in the Mundakkai–Chooralmala rehabilitation township where cracks were reportedly found, even as the local ruling Left leaders accompanied him.With the possibilit…