Bypoll in Chelakkara, a reserved constituency in Kerala's Thrissur, was necessitated after K. Radhakrishnan vacated the seat after winning from Alathur in Lok Sabha elections.
Analysts say result of Lok Sabha polls in Kerala was along expected lines, except for rise in BJP's graph, which affected both ruling Left-led LDF and Opposition Congress-led UDF.
Congress & Left are locked in an intense fight in Kerala, but leaders from both parties believe this doesn't confuse state's voters, who can distinguish between state & national elections.
CM Vijayan and his entire Cabinet are cruising across Kerala in a Mercedes Benz bus for their 36-day outreach programme, leaving a trail of protests and controversies in their wake.
Congress & Left have been talks with Abbas Siddiqui, an influential cleric of Bengal’s most prominent Islamic shrine Furfura Sharif, to tie-up for polls but issues remain unresolved.
The LDF was leading in 10 out of the 14 district panchayats and 108 block panchayats of the total of 152, according to the State Election Commission figures.
Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has gone against the Congress party line, supporting the privatisation of the airport by Adani group that won the bid.
Farrhana Bhatt’s presence on Bigg Boss 19 can’t redefine Kashmir. But it can remind the Valley that Kashmiris deserve to be seen in their full human range—not squeezed into specific categories.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
India is now the only country still operating the Jaguar, long retired by its original users, France in 2005 and the UK in 2007, and secondary operators like Oman, Nigeria and Ecuador.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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