Kerala State Legislative Assembly

The BJP in Kerala on Friday came down heavily on CPI(M) legislator A N Shamseer for his recent offensive remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the state Assembly and urged the Speaker to remove them from the House records at the earliest.

Even though the party has just one legislator in the entire state but the BJP's outlook in next month's elections has become a keenly-watched subject all thanks to the entrance of a disruptor - 88-year-old technocrat E Sreedharan, dubbed "Metro Man" for his work on high-profile infrastructure and mass transit projects like the Delhi Metro.

Ahead of the state assembly polls, the Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala said on Saturday if the UDF was voted to power, it would pass a legislation on Sabarimala to protect the customs of the shrine, a move dubbed by the ruling Left front as to "fool the people of the state".

The Kerala Legislative Assembly today unanimously passed a resolution seeking the withdrawal of all the three contentious agricultural laws enacted hurriedly by parliament in September. Raising the state's fears over the effects of prolonged tumult in the country's farm sector, the resolution said "Kerala could not bear the impact of such a situati...

People in Kerala will be vaccinated for free whenever the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram today. With this announcement, Kerala joins a growing list of states that have said they would vaccinate people for free, such as BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. The BJP promised free...

A court in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram has dismissed a petition by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan-led state government to withdraw cases filed against five legislators and members of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) for the 2015 Assembly ruckus.

KM Mani, the chairman of Kerala Congress (Mani) and the longest serving legislator in the state, died at a hospital in Kochi today. He was 86.

Kerala Governor P Sathasivam on Friday said that the state government has upheld constitutional values and gender equality and embraced the values of secularism and pluralism in every walk of social life.

In a major relief to the longest serving legislator of Kerala Assembly, according to sources, the state vigilance today has told a court in Thiruvananthapuram that they have no concrete evidence on the corruption allegation against Kerala Congress (M) leader KM Mani, the former finance minister of the United Democratic Front government led by Oomme...

While the controversy over Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja sporting spectacles worth Rs 28,000 has died down, Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan has run into a similar row.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill is not likely to get ratified during the upcoming session of the Kerala legislative assembly but would come up for discussion only during the budget session which is due in April next year, Kerala finance minister T M Thomas Isaac said today.

In a first, a Kerala governor on Monday cast his vote in the ongoing state legislative assembly elections.

The Kerala assembly was adjourned on Monday after Chief Minister Oommen Chandy recommended that the state assembly suspend five legislators for their role in the violence and chaos inside the Kerala Assembly on March 13.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Monday rapped Air India for ignoring the "genuine needs" of the state and said he would take this up with the civil aviation ministry. "Air India is known as the national carrier of the country but the way they are doing their business is just not acceptable," Chandy said in the assembly, responding to Congress l...

The Supreme Court said that Kerala is the only state in the country where the state tells its citizens not to obey the law. The Apex court was hearing the Kerala government's appeal against the Kerala High Court order which stayed a provision that allowed district police chiefs to grant permission to hold public meetings and assemblies on public ...

The BJP in Kerala on Friday came down heavily on CPI(M) legislator A N Shamseer for his recent offensive remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the state Assembly and urged the Speaker to remove them from the House records at the earliest.

Even though the party has just one legislator in the entire state but the BJP's outlook in next month's elections has become a keenly-watched subject all thanks to the entrance of a disruptor - 88-year-old technocrat E Sreedharan, dubbed "Metro Man" for his work on high-profile infrastructure and mass transit projects like the Delhi Metro.

Ahead of the state assembly polls, the Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala said on Saturday if the UDF was voted to power, it would pass a legislation on Sabarimala to protect the customs of the shrine, a move dubbed by the ruling Left front as to "fool the people of the state".

The Kerala Legislative Assembly today unanimously passed a resolution seeking the withdrawal of all the three contentious agricultural laws enacted hurriedly by parliament in September. Raising the state's fears over the effects of prolonged tumult in the country's farm sector, the resolution said "Kerala could not bear the impact of such a situati...

People in Kerala will be vaccinated for free whenever the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram today. With this announcement, Kerala joins a growing list of states that have said they would vaccinate people for free, such as BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. The BJP promised free...

A court in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram has dismissed a petition by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan-led state government to withdraw cases filed against five legislators and members of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) for the 2015 Assembly ruckus.

KM Mani, the chairman of Kerala Congress (Mani) and the longest serving legislator in the state, died at a hospital in Kochi today. He was 86.

Kerala Governor P Sathasivam on Friday said that the state government has upheld constitutional values and gender equality and embraced the values of secularism and pluralism in every walk of social life.

In a major relief to the longest serving legislator of Kerala Assembly, according to sources, the state vigilance today has told a court in Thiruvananthapuram that they have no concrete evidence on the corruption allegation against Kerala Congress (M) leader KM Mani, the former finance minister of the United Democratic Front government led by Oomme...

While the controversy over Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja sporting spectacles worth Rs 28,000 has died down, Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan has run into a similar row.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill is not likely to get ratified during the upcoming session of the Kerala legislative assembly but would come up for discussion only during the budget session which is due in April next year, Kerala finance minister T M Thomas Isaac said today.

In a first, a Kerala governor on Monday cast his vote in the ongoing state legislative assembly elections.

The Kerala assembly was adjourned on Monday after Chief Minister Oommen Chandy recommended that the state assembly suspend five legislators for their role in the violence and chaos inside the Kerala Assembly on March 13.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Monday rapped Air India for ignoring the "genuine needs" of the state and said he would take this up with the civil aviation ministry. "Air India is known as the national carrier of the country but the way they are doing their business is just not acceptable," Chandy said in the assembly, responding to Congress l...

The Supreme Court said that Kerala is the only state in the country where the state tells its citizens not to obey the law. The Apex court was hearing the Kerala government's appeal against the Kerala High Court order which stayed a provision that allowed district police chiefs to grant permission to hold public meetings and assemblies on public ...