Kerala

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress party in Kerala has reopened its infighting after long 8 years, with indications that an imminent intervention by the party high command in Delhi is likely. The two groups within the state Congress—‘I’ and ‘A’—are at loggerheads over giving Home Ministry to KPCC President Ramesh Chennithala. The ‘I’ group that supports...

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has won the United Nation’s Public Service Award for his Mass Contact Programme, which saw him directly engaging with people in the state to address their grievances. Chandy bagged the first prize from the Asia Pacific region with awardees chosen every year from five zones around the world, a...

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KOLLAM: Kerala Congress (B) chairman R Balakrishna Pillai said that he will not accept the post of chairman of the Forward Communities Development Corporation unless his son K B Ganesh Kumar is made a minister. I had earlier said that we don’t need it but our party deserves it, he said. The chairman post...

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that he would abide by the party’s any directive. He said this when brought to notice NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair’s statement asking chief minister to take up the post of KPCC chief after the former said that this post was bigger than the CM post. Chandy...

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NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh will visit Attappady in Palakkad in the first week of June. The minister is visiting the place to assess the life of the people in Attappady. A decision to visit Attappady was taken after meet Minister Dr M K Muneer. A central team is visiting...

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The differences of opinion between Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and KPCC chief Ramesh Chennithala in connection with the re-organisation of the cabinet has turned worse. In an interview given to a English daily, Chennithala has harshly criticized Chandy. Chennithala has openly stated that the relations between the party and the government will not...

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