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Load-shedding may continue in June

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The top brass of Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) met here on Wednesday and decided to file a request before the State Electricity Regulatory Commission for permission to take the load-shedding beyond May 31. The existing permission is to impose cyclic load-shedding for one hour load during daytime and 30 minutes during the...

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KCA decides to extend Sujith Somasunder’s contract

KOZHIKODE: Kerala Cricket Association on Wednesday decided to extend the contract with Kerala Ranji Trophy coach Sujith Somasunder for another one year. Somasunder’s contract had been extended considering his coaching performances last year in which the Kerala Ranji Trophy cricket team had done well, TC Mathew, secretary KCA, said. He said that as part...

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Congress reopens infighting

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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Chandy bags UN award for mass contact programme

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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Pillai refuses post if son not made minister

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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I’ll abide by party directive: Chandy

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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