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TopicK.J. Alphons

Topic: K.J. Alphons

IAS officer-turned-politician KJ Alphons now a self-help guru. ‘Your hurters are your helpers’

Former Kerala IAS officer and ex-Union minister KJ Alphons launched his third book, The Winning Formula: 52 Ways to Change Your Life, at Delhi’s India International Centre last week.

Mother was Covid-free when she died — MP Alphons after row over her ‘public funeral’ in Kerala

Former Union minister K.J. Alphons was accused of hiding his mother’s ‘Covid positive status’ while bringing her body to Kerala from Delhi for burial.

Yogi critic, Mumbai ex-top cop — IAS & IPS officers moving to politics this Lok Sabha polls

Lok Sabha elections 2019 has quite a few former IAS and IPS officers turning to politics — some who joined after retirement and others who dumped their careers midway. 

Hampi is up for adoption, to get world-class makeover: Tourism minister Alphons

At ThePrint's Off the Cuff event, tourism minister K.J. Alphons spoke on a range of issues, from women’s safety in India to the CBI raids in West Bengal.

One Kathua or Nirbhaya doesn’t make India the most unsafe country, says minister Alphons

Union Tourism Minister KJ Alphons tells ThePrint that dubbing India most unsafe place for women by “picking one stray incident” is “completely biased reporting”.

Alphons goes to sleep in Kerala relief camp, Twitter aflame

Front Page In Germany, Rahul Gandhi attacks the Modi government: The Congress president stated that the Narendra Modi government’s "exclusivist" policies were detrimental to the...

‘Who visited Kerala’s flood-hit first?’ BJP finds a way to score brownie points

Central tourism minister K.J. Alphons of the BJP takes on state finance minister Thomas Issac of the Left for not visiting his flood-hit constituency.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.