Karat tries to restore order to unit

Saturday 11 August '07

Waving a stern primer on proper behaviour, the CPI(M) national leadership tried ordering the two camps in the Kerala unit to their own factional corners at its state secretariat meet which ended here on Friday.

In God’s own country, comrades’ own Tantric university

Friday 10 August '07

Marx may have called religion the opium of the people, but comrades ruling Kerala are set to ensure that it thrives. The Left Democratic Front government is seriously thinking of starting a full-fledged Tantric university in Kerala.

Centre bends VS, may clear toll on NH stretch

Thursday 9 August '07

In another major climbdown, the Left Government in Kerala is learnt to have finally decided to allow a BOT deal to develop National Highway 47

VS-Pinarayi war tunes into Red channel

Friday 3 August '07

Another episode in the V S Achuthanandan-Pinarayi Vijayan drama played out on television screens across Kerala today...

Mahdani walks free, Left, Cong wait arms wide open

Thursday 2 August '07

When Abdul Naser Mahdani, acquitted today in the Coimbatore bomb blasts case after nine years in jail, steps off the plane in Thiruvananthapuram...

CPM has its share of the corrupt: VS

Monday 30 July '07

The factional slam-bang in the Kerala CPM took another turn on Saturday, with Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan declaring that the CPM too had its share of the corrupt in its fold...

College reforms: Church confronts Kerala Govt

Saturday 21 July '07

The Kerala Government’s continuing spat with powerful sections of the church over education reforms reached a head on Friday...

CPM strikes back with probe against PCC chief

Tuesday 17 July '07

Cong-led Opposition has been hounding the Govt for two graft charges involving Rs 1 cr and Rs 2 cr

Fever: Kerala Oppn announces stir

Saturday 14 July '07

The Congress-led Opposition in Kerala stalled the Assembly on Friday and announced an agitation against the Government...

Kerala: Vigilance court orders probe into graft slur on CPM mouthpiece

Saturday 14 July '07

The Vigilance court in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday ordered the state Vigilance Department to probe the unsolved Rs 1 crore bribe scam

Munnar: Govt to resume demolitions

Thursday 12 July '07

The Kerala Government on Wednesday said it will resume demolitions in Munnar. Revenue Minister K P Rajendran of the CPI announced in the state Assembly

Embarrassed after the VS drama, Munnar demolition put on hold

Saturday 7 July '07

In another twist to its much-hyped demolition-cum-reclamation drive against land-grabbers in Munnar, the Left government today has reportedly decided to stop the demolitions.

The day after, comrades red-faced: land VS ‘seized’ was with govt

Friday 6 July '07

In a major blow to Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan, his own Revenue Minister, K P Rajendran, disclosed in the Kerala Assembly

Besieged by exposes, CPM goes after Mathrubhumi, its editor

Friday 6 July '07

Its charges against media no longer general; editor gets police protection

Kerala CM declares war on Tatas, their land

Wednesday 4 July '07

Declaring war on the Tatas, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan today led an eviction task force in Munnar during a heavy downpour

Kerala prisoners can puff on bidis

Friday 22 June '07

The 6,500-odd prisoners in Kerala jails can now sit back and puff away to their heart’s content right within their cells. The Left Government today announced it would lift the ban on...

More Tata Tea farms destroyed in Munnar

Friday 22 June '07

The Left Government sent its demolition teams after Tata Tea Ltd in Munnar yet again on Thursday, destroying the company’s tea plantations over a stretch of a kilometre..