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Kerala has officially designated Malayalam as its sole administrative language following Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar's assent to the Malayalam Language Bill 2025, which was passed by the Assembly in October 2025, despite initial concerns from the Karnataka government regarding potential compulsory learning for linguistic minorities in border areas. The Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, assured that the bill includes a non-obstante clause to protect the rights of minority language speakers, particularly Kannada and Tamil communities, while mandating Malayalam as the compulsory first language in all government and aided schools up to Class 10 and promoting its dissemination throughout the state. Crucially, the bill exempts students from other states and foreign countries whose mother tongue is not Malayalam from writing examinations in the language at the Class 9, Class 10, and Higher Secondary levels.
The Governor issued an order revising the guidelines for the appointment of the chancellor's nominee in the selection process.
As in previous years, the Indian Air Force will shower flower petals from a helicopter.
A court here on Saturday acquitted social activist Medha Patkar in a criminal defamation case filed by Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, observing that the prosecution failed to prove that she made the alleged defamatory statements during a television programme in 2006. The complaint was filed
The remarks came after Lok Bhavan observed Good Governance Day on December 25.
The Chancellor has further called for all records and minutes of meetings related to the proposed land transfer.
Governor Arlekar released the Lok Bhavan Calendar on December 23.
With the possibility of a consensus on vice chancellors of two universities receding, the Supreme Court has stepped in.
Last week, the Supreme Court warned it would intervene to resolve the deadlock if Vijayan and Arlekar failed to reach an agreement by December 9.
He was speaking after releasing a biography of India’s first Railway Minister, John Matthai.
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