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While stating that criticism of Kerala’s handling of Covid-19 is “unfair”, India’s prominent virologist Gagandeep Kang said no one can predict when a third wave will strike. If the situation does not change much, the third wave of Covid-19 infections will be a “hill, if the second wave was a steep mountain”, Professor Gagandeep Read More…
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday stayed the operation of two recent orders of the Lakshadweep administration to close down dairy farms and remove meat products, including chicken from the menu of midday meals for school children. The stay order was issued by a Division bench, comprising Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji Read More…
CPI(M) veteran Pinarayi Vijayan, who led the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to an unprecedented consecutive second term victory in the April 6 assembly polls, on Thursday took oath as Chief Minister of Kerala for the second time along with 20 ministers. The ceremony began after the Governor reached the venue at 3.30 pm and Read More…
First time in Kerala history, a woman journalist-turned politician, Veena George, will become a minister in Kerala and latest reports indicate that George is set to replace Kerala’s much-acclaimed ex-Health Minister KK Shailaja. In her journalism career of over one-and-a-half decades in television, George had excelled as a journalist and news anchor in various Read More…
As many as 45 people have been killed due to cyclone ‘Tauktae’ across 12 districts of Gujarat. Fifteen deaths were reported from Amreli district in Saurashtra region, the worst affected in the cyclone that crossed the state coast as an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Monday night and completed landfall around 1.30 am Tuesday. In Read More…
Cyclone Tauktae, the biggest to hit the region in decades, made landfall in Gujarat at around 8.30 pm on Monday, packing winds with speeds of 155-165 kilometres per hour, gusting to 190 km/hour. As per official figure so far 3 died in Gujarat More than 90 people are missing after a barge off the Read More…
On April 6th Barring few incidents of violence in West Bengal’s Phase 3 vote, and few incidents in Tamilnadu polling in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and for the third phase in Assam were held peacefully, the Election Commission said on Tuesday evening. Voting was held in 1.5 lakh polling stations across 475 Assembly seats Read More…
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said that West Bengal will go to polls in 8 phases and Assam in three phases while Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry will have a single-phase election. While elections to the 140-member Kerala Assembly, the 30-member Puducherry Assembly and the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly will be held in a Read More…
Indian animal husbandry ministry said it has set up a “control room” in New Delhi to keep a watch on the situation and to take stock on a daily basis of the preventive and control measures. With thousands of birds dying in several states due to Avian Influenza (or bird flu), the Centre on Read More…
The Kerala Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution demanding the scrapping of the three contentious central farm laws, against which farmers were agitating in Delhi, saying they were ‘anti-farmer’ and ‘pro-corporate.’ The resolution was passed in a special session convened in compliance with COVID-19 protocols to express solidarity with the agitating farmers. Read More…
