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A row over the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit of KIIFB operations has erupted again in Kerala as the state finance minister Dr Thomas Isaac has alleged that the CAG is trying to scuttle the development of Kerala by scheming with RSS-led forces in Delhi. On November 14, Isaac…
Kuppan points to pushcarts lined up along the Marina beach at Foreshore Estate. “These are small shops that can be pushed away. Not so with a sugarcane juice stall,” he says. The 76-year-old, who had taken to managing such a sugarcane juice stall his mother Ponnammal set up decades ago…
Without honouring an interim order from the regulatory commission, the Kerala government is going ahead with the K-FON project, The Lede has learnt. An Interim Order issued by the Kerala State Regulatory Commission (KSERC) on April 27, had stated that sharing the transmission and distribution assets of KSEB Ltd (Kerala…
25 fishermen from Kerala and Tamil Nadu are stuck in Masirah, a remote island in the Arabian Sea near Oman coast, without food, drinking water, medicine, job and salary since April. They had gone for a fishing job on a three-week valid Express Visa to Masirah by the sea in…
M Sivashankar, former principal secretary to Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, and his team in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) were aware of the smuggling of gold and other electronic items through the diplomatic channel, the ED has revealed in an affidavit submitted in the court on Wednesday. As per…
By-elections normally favour ruling parties as they occupy an advantageous position to influence the voters by using all resources at their command – state, men and money power. Losing a by-election for a ruling party is fraught with negative consequences. The unpalatable aftertaste lingers for a long time. The defeat…
We live in a strange world. In one part of the world, a 78-year-old man is elected by the people to lead his country. In another part of the world, another leader in the same age group is considered by his party to be unfit to head a state government.…