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Pinarayi Vijayan’s double-speak on women’s security needs to be called out

CPI(M) councillor Kala Raju’s humiliation can’t be seen as an isolated case. The party promotes aggression and violence from the grassroots level, starting with university campuses in Kerala.

Kerala Muslim groups are auditing others on Islamophobia. It isn’t helping

The Jamaat-e-Islami and other outfits that campaign against the stoking of Islamophobia in Kerala must first look within before conveniently laying the blame on others.

NM Vijayan suicide note reveals sorry state of Kerala Congress–bad loans, cash-for-job scams

The December 2024 deaths of Wayanad District Congress Committee treasurer NM Vijayan and his son Jijesh shook Kerala. The contents of Vijayan’s suicide note were recently released by his family.

Did media & Left stoke Islamophobia in MEC 7 fitness controversy? Facts say otherwise

Samastha’s AP faction is among the most orthodox Muslim outfits in Kerala. Its primary objection to MEC 7 is the mingling of genders and the exercise being held in public view.

Ramesh Chennithala is getting a Nair rebranding. Kerala Congress targets Hindu votes

The Nair Service Society in Kerala welcomed Ramesh Chennithala like he was the prodigal son. The political situation in Kerala is also in favour of his Nair rebranding.

CPI-M is damaging Kerala with its petty politics. God’s own country to ‘mini-Pakistan’

For several elections now, the Kerala CPI-M has refused to accept election defeats. Its general response is that the BJP transferred votes to the Congress, or vice versa.

MT Vasudevan Nair’s passing is a reminder that ‘death is a clown with no sense of timing’

MT’s last public speech earlier this year, attacking the personality cult of Pinarayi Vijayan, had Kerala’s ruling Marxists scampering for cover.

Munambam dispute fuelling Christian-Muslim divide in Kerala. Leaving it unchecked is risky

The Munambam issue is a land dispute between the Latin Christian fisherfolk living on a parcel of land near Kochi, and the Kerala Waqf Board.

Kerala Left is becoming indistinguishable from Right—turncoats, ideological erosion, hypocrisy

It is a fallacy to believe that Keralites are cut from some different cloth, that there is no scope for sectarian thought.

Every senior Kerala BJP leader wants state president post. Infighting already cost Palakkad

The RSS has a huge network of shakhas in Kerala, and its sudden withdrawal from being the arbiter of internal conflicts has left the BJP in a free-for-all situation.

On Camera

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.