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The heightened security follows clashes with BJP activists and a string of protests targeting Ministers in retaliation for earlier Youth Congress’ black-flag demonstration during Union Home Monister Amit Shah’s visit to Kollam. Satheesan has reportedly asked police not to add another security vehicle to his convoy.

Attacks come against backdrop of tense Statewide standoff between Youth Congress activists and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha supporters after Congress workers waved black flags as Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s convoy passed through Kollam on September 26

The court held that the test to transfer proceedings was not whether the impugned orders were correct, but whether the apprehension of an unfair trial was genuine and justifiable

Supporters hold parallel meetings across State; differences spill into open confrontation in Irinjalakuda

Both fronts wrested one seat from each other while retaining the rest of their seats

Calls for setting up a centralised, continuously updated digital platform to give the general public real-time access to key operational data and the development of a framework for the continuous statistical monitoring of lottery outcomes

Party announces plans to reach out to students and mobilise support for its protests

State govt.’s move to seek exclusion of inhabited areas and farmland from Ecologically Sensitive Area regime has failed to soothe tempers in the district amid concerns that the revised proposal offers no complete exclusion for any of the seven villages covered by the Centre’s draft notification

Employees seeking permission will have to produce documents establishing that they are registered voters in the constituency

Keralam govt to introduce resolution on ESA issue when State Assembly convenes next, says Environment Minister Sunny Joseph

In a post on X, Satheesan says voters need to have full confidence in integrity of India’s electoral process

Satheesan says government was obliged to take the decision after proper legal scrutiny

DYFI State president alleges that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan are operating on a dual-option formula of forcing compliance or silencing Opposition voices

CPI(M) leader P. Rajeeve alleges that UDF Ministers have signalled to the electorate that ordinary citizens without resources are at a disadvantage compared with the moneyed elite, who dole out freebies and fund foreign jaunts for ‘power centres and authority figures’

Photographs of K.M. Shaji posing alongside the car, which flew the national flag from a staff mounted on the vehicle’s bonnet, recently went viral on social and conventional media, drawing applause from his supporters and criticism from Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leaders.

We should have been more alert in exposing and defeating the narrative, M.A. Baby said while opening the party’s three-day extended State committee meeting in Kozhikode

Health Minister writes to Home Minister seeking steps to prevent strikes and ensure smooth operation of ambulance services. The Kerala State 108 Ambulance Employees Union has announced a 24-hour strike from 8 a.m. on September 17.

The commission registered a suo motu case following a detailed report in The Hindu on the tribal families living in plastic tents since the August 2019 floods destroyed their homes

Extended State Committee meeting, scheduled to begin in Kozhikode on Sunday, may initiate measures to bring in greater transparency and accountability on the part of the leadership, says a party leader. The style of functioning of the party could change from high-voltage events to home visits and neighbourhood gatherings. District committee members are likely to be tasked with overseeing and guiding local and branch committees

Party general secretary M.A. Baby will open the conference, Polit Bureau members to attend

He says extended State committee meeting in Kozhikode from September 13, 2026 will discuss both the central committee’s review of the election results and the State committee’s report with a view to preparing a practical action plan for course correction

Explaining the genesis of the case CMRL pay-off case, CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan says ever since SFIO began pursuing it, the CPI(M) State Committee knew who the real target was and had taken a strong stand against it

ED sends 25-page report to State Police Chief (SPC) Ravada A. Chandrasekhar under Section 66(2) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, enclosing findings and supporting evidence from its investigation.  The SPC’s scrutiny of the ED report will determine whether the material warrants registration of a First Information Report, referral to the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau, or any other legally permissible action

Kochi Corporation and Cochin Gymnasium in west Kochi appear headed for a collision course over the civic body’s decision to levy a nominal rent on the gym, which has operated rent-free since its founding before Independence

Opposition Leader says was no provocation for police to resort to ‘violent lathicharge’ on students, who were peacefully protesting against full rendition of Vande Mataram in front of university building

Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan light the traditional lamp marking the beginning of two-day workshop led by IIM-K faculty members and experts from international institutions for discussions on issues ranging from AI and climate resilience to public health, ageing, employment, higher education and fiscal sustainability

Home Department on Thursday constituted an SIT, headed by ADGP, Law and Order, P. Vijayan, to conduct a comprehensive probe into previous government’s alleged collaboration with a private sponsor