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Here we consider a few likely surprise picks for a few assembly seats in central Kerala, primarily Kottayam.
The government has now agreed to shorten the working hours of watchmen so that more candidates from the rank list could be recruited.
The police and the CISF have stepped up security at the CIAL following the information regarding the bomb threat
According to the IANS-CVoter survey, the CPI (M)-led Left Democratic Front is likely to win 87 out of 140 seats in Kerala with a vote share of over 40 per cent.
Three separate queues will be there in each polling booth; men, women and elderly people/differently abled.
The LDF, the UDF and the NDA -- the three principal political fronts in Kerala -- have expedited the process of selecting their candidates for all the 140 assembly constituencies.
Onmanorama analyses the political scenario in all 14 districts ahead of the Kerala Assembly Elections 2021.
Kerala's 576-km long coastline is home to over 10 lakh families dependent on fishing. They can decide the outcome in around 50 Assembly constituencies in nine coastal districts.
The Kerala economy needs a fresh impetus after a series of untoward developments that hurt businesses in the state in the last few years. The state cannot afford to neglect any sector if it is serious about improving the overall economy.
Onmanorama's weekly election bulletin - Kerala Poll Buzz - is packed with analytical pieces, curated stories, social media buzz, statistics and political cartoons to keep you up-to-date with all the political developments from the poll-bound south Indian state.
Starting today, we bring you a weekly election bulletin - Kerala Poll Buzz - packed with analytical and curated stories, statistics, cartoons etc that will keep you up-to-date with all the political developments from the poll-bound south Indian state.
Elections to the 140-member Kerala Assembly will be held on April 6. Counting will be held on May 2.
The Election Commission has identified 298 polling booths in the state which are situated in the naxal- affected areas of Palakkad, Malappuram, Kannur, Kozhikode and Wayand districts.
Surendran said the Christian community was now more worried about the practice as they were reportedly being targetted and had sought stringent action against it.
Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala has alleged that former Kerala chief secretary Tom Jose and former finance secretary Sanjay Kaul had held talks with the representatives of US firm EMCC Global Consortium LLC in Washington.
The mother of two minor sisters, who were found hanging in their hut after an alleged sexual assault on them, had alleged that the Police has committed lapses in their probe of the case.
Currently, there 50,514 active patients under treatment in the state after 4,650 recoveries were recorded in the past 24 hours.
The Kerala High Court had directed the government last week to take decision on bringing online gambling and online betting within the purview of the Kerala Gaming Act, 1960.
The Left government had decided to cancel a Rs 5,000 crore MoU between KSIDC and the EMCC International, against which the Opposition Congress has been raising serious allegations.
She has completed a major portion of the book titled Adimasanthathiyude Adayalappeduthalukal or Recordings of a Slave’s Ward, which appears to be a new subaltern chapter in Malabar history.
The COVID-19 safety guidelines announced by the Union Home ministry would be complied with strictly during the entire election process.
Suni and the other convicts did not allow the police to handcuff or sit near them. In fact, they travelled posing as normal passengers.
As Kerala goes to the polls on April 6, a look into the 10 factors that are likely to have a significant bearing on the results.
With this the government has come out with an official clarification about scrapping all agreements with EMCC.
All the five are suspected to be part of a gold-smuggling gang based in Malappuram, the police said.
The Marxist veteran said the people of the state knew it was the LDF which was fighting the BJP and pointed to the Congress' fiasco in Puducherry.
The efforts to provide an income supplement to coconut farmers lost vigour after the initial euphoria generated by its organised production and marketing.
The decision on RT-PCR tests, considered the gold standard to detect the COVID-19, has been taken following a direction by the Centre in view of over 30 per cent increase in COVID-19 cases in the state in the last one week.
Vlogger Sebin Cyriac, who runs the YouTube channel 'Fishing Freaks', had also accompanied the 50-year-old as he ventured out into the Arabian Sea along with several fishermen.
In the outgoing Assembly, the CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) has 91 seats, while the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has 47.
Fourteen deaths too were confirmed. With this, COVID death toll rose to 4,164.
While the two principal fronts have almost reached an agreement over the seats, the tiny parties are not even in a position to retain the seats that they had contested in the previous election.
The row over the deep-sea trawling project has exposed the state government to opposition charge that the Pinarayi Vijayan administration is inimical to the interests of the fishing community.
Ponnani native Fahadh, who is suspected to have participated in the abduction, was arrested in the wee hours of Friday. The police have also seizeed the car used for the crime.
The passenger, Thiruvannamalai native Ramani who was travelling from Katpadi to Thalassery on the Chennai-Mangaluru Superfast train, was taken into custody by the special squad of the Railway Protection Force.
Two US-based Keralaites have also raised complaints against the EMCC over cheating them over a real estate project.
Gathering of more than five people for any event other than funerals were banned in these taluks till Saturday, the district administration announced on Thursday.
Oil marketing companies on Friday continued with their wait and watch strategy and kept retail prices of petrol and diesel unchanged for the third consecutive day.
Now all eyes are on from which constituency would Sreedharan contest as the BJP candidate.
Twenty-nine companies had come forward in the state to produce Neera. All these companies jointly made an investment of Rs 103 crore. Of this, Rs 53 crore was mobilised from the farmers.
The CM questioned the intend behind Gandhi's tractor rally in Wayanad instead of Delhi. Mocking Adityanath's claims, Pinarayi said 15% of migrant workers in the state were from UP.
Those who have not attended Prof Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri’s English classes, may not probably miss the melodic lilt of tongue, the cadence of words and the fluidity of expression that was like ice cream topped with honey, for his students. “I sat down to write an article today morning and
In the Lok Sabha election of 2019 too, the Western Ghats ecology reports had little influence on the electorate in spite of parties trying to rake it up.
