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Kochi, April 8 – In a development that highlights the legal limitations on electoral participation for those in custody, a court in Ernakulam, Kerala, on Wednesday refused to grant interim bail to filmmaker Ranjith, who is currently in jail in connection with an alleged sexual assault case...

Kochi, April 8 – In a timely intervention on the eve of the polls, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday directed authorities to take immediate corrective measures to ensure that election duty personnel receive their postal ballots without further delay.Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas issued the...

Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka), April 8 A search operation was launched after a 10th-grade student from Kerala went missing during a family trip to Manikyadhara Falls in the Chandradrona hill range, police said on Wednesday.The girl was part of a group of around 40 relatives who had traveled from...

Madikeri (Karnataka), April 8 The BJP on Wednesday demanded a thorough investigation into the case of Kerala trekker GS Sharanya, who went missing for three days and was later found.Members of the BJP’s Kodagu unit lodged a complaint at the Napoklu police station, seeking an investigation and...

New Delhi, April 8 The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre how people who are not devotees of Lord Ayyappa could challenge the customs of the Sabarimala temple in Kerala.The remark was made by a nine-judge Constitution bench hearing petitions related to discrimination against women at...

Palakkad (Kerala), April 8 The Congress alleged that Sobha Surendran, the BJP candidate for the Palakkad constituency in Kerala, was "caught red-handed distributing" cash to voters ahead of the April 9 elections to the state Assembly.Surendran denied the allegations, calling them "fabricated"...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 8 Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, V D Satheesan, on Wednesday sought the EC's intervention to ensure that government employees can exercise their franchise without any hindrance through the postal voting process.In a letter to Chief Election...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 8 Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar appealed to the people of the state to exercise their right to vote freely and without fear in the upcoming assembly elections.In a message issued on the eve of the polls, the governor stated that voting is not only a...

Palakkad, April 8 – NDA candidate Sobha Surendran has strongly denied allegations that a BJP worker distributed money to a voter in Palakkad, Kerala, calling the charge a "scripted attempt" to damage her reputation during the final phase of campaigning for the Assembly elections.The BJP leader...

Guwahati/Thiruvananthapuram, April 8 – With the highly anticipated Assembly elections in Assam and Kerala just a day away, election officials and security personnel intensified their efforts on Wednesday to ensure free and fair voting.Authorities in both states have completed most of the...

Palakkad (Kerala), April 8 – Just hours before the polling, the Palakkad Assembly constituency in Kerala has been rocked by a series of allegations involving cash and material inducements, leading to swift intervention from election authorities and sharp political exchanges between rival...

Kollam (Kerala), April 7 Two female athletes have been injured, one critically, after a car allegedly carrying UDF workers hit them in this district, police said on Wednesday.The accident occurred on the Asramam Link Road shortly after the public campaign concluded at 6 pm on Tuesday.The...

New Delhi, April 8 Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday expressed regret over his controversial statement calling the people of Gujarat "illiterate", and said he has always had and will continue to have the highest respect for the people of the state.In a post on X, the Congress...

New Delhi, April 8 Members of the Gujarati community held a protest outside the Congress office here on Wednesday, alleging that the party's national president, Mallikarjun Kharge, had insulted them during a recent election campaign in Kerala.Kharge had courted controversy during a rally in...

Hyderabad, April 8 A female student at a private pilot training institute in Hyderabad has allegedly been sexually assaulted by a flying instructor, police said on Wednesday.The alleged assault took place before last December, the woman stated in her complaint filed on Tuesday evening.The...

Kollam (Kerala), April 7 Two female athletes have been injured, one critically, after a car allegedly carrying UDF workers hit them in this district, police said.The accident occurred on the Asramam Link Road shortly after the public campaign concluded at 6 pm on Tuesday.The UDF workers were...

New Delhi, April 7 As many as 43 delegates from 23 countries, including representatives from five foreign missions here, will be visiting Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry to observe the assembly elections firsthand.The delegates are part of the International Election Visitors' Programme-2026, the...

New Delhi, April 7 – Describing elections in India as festivals of democracy, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar inaugurated the International Election Visitors’ Programme (IEVP), 2026, on Tuesday, paving the way for foreign delegates to learn from the upcoming Assembly elections in...

Kottayam (Kerala), April 7 A farmer was found dead by hanging at the premises of a CPI office in the Kottayam district of Kerala on Tuesday, police said.The incident occurred in Thalayazham, near Vaikom, and the deceased was identified as Chellappan Pulikkasheri, a local farmer."He was a...

Hyderabad, April 7 Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy questioned his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday whether the latter's claim that Kerala would become the first state to completely eradicate extreme poverty by late 2025 had been achieved.Reddy also said he chooses to...