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The Kerala Cabinet has approved a major revision of police recruitment rules, increasing the proportion of women appointed as civil police personnel from 10 per cent to 30 per cent. The decision, taken at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, changes the male-to-female recruitment ratio from 9:1 to 7:3. Under the revised arran…
Kerala’s Legislative Assembly unanimously passed legislation on Thursday increasing the salaries and allowances of ministers and MLAs, while also approving higher pensions for former legislators. The measure raises the monthly remuneration package for an MLA to Rs 98,000. The legislation secured support from both the…
Kerala’s Legislative Assembly unanimously passed legislation on Thursday increasing the salaries and allowances of ministers and MLAs, while also approving higher pensions for former legislators. The measure raises the monthly remuneration package for an MLA to Rs 98,000. The legislation secured support from both the…
The Kerala Cabinet has approved a major revision of police recruitment rules, increasing the proportion of women appointed as civil police personnel from 10 per cent to 30 per cent. The decision, taken at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, changes the male-to-female recruitment ratio from 9:1 to 7:3. Under the revised arran…

By Nilotpal Basu Faced with growing protests over the large-scale electoral malpractices initiated by the supposedly neutral umpire, the Election Commission of India, which clearly favours the BJP, the government and the ruling party have gone berserk. Like a drowning man clutching at straws, the ruling party and its army of social media foot soldiers […]

The article Regime Change Threat And Foreign Funding Are The Bogey Of Ruling Party To Curb Dissent appeared first on Latest India news, analysis and reports on Newspack by India Press Agency).

By Nitya Chakraborty In just ten days between October 25 and November 3 this year, four national elections were scheduled. Out of these, elections were held in Brazil and Serbia on October 25 and in Israel on October 27. Only on November 3, the midterm elections will be held in the United States. The bitter […]

The article Four Elections In Ten Days: Authoritarianism Is Finally Getting A Backlash appeared first on Latest India news, analysis and reports on Newspack by India Press Agency).

Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan warned the Assembly that mounting liabilities accumulated by KIIFB could have resulted in the attachment of the Secretariat and district Collectorates if its operations had continued unchecked. Addressing the Assembly during discussions on supplementary budgetary demands, Satheesan accus…
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The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday ordered a vigilance investigation into alleged irregularities in the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), bringing its land acquisition transactions and appointments under scrutiny despite strong opposition from the Left Democratic Front (LDF). The decision follows the f…
Opposition leader Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday accused the Kerala government of pursuing a sustained campaign against the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), alleging that Chief Minister V D Satheesan was disregarding its contribution to infrastructure development. Addressing a press conference in Th…

By K Raveendran The greatest mistake Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party can make is to mistake the silence of the streets for the consent of the people. The government may have succeeded in shrinking the space for organised resistance, intimidating critics and making dissent increasingly costly. But political resentment does not disappear simply […]

The article Modi Govt’s Undeclared Emergency Will Have Its Inevitable Outcome appeared first on Latest India news, analysis and reports on Newspack by India Press Agency).

By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: India’s digital media industry has taken an unusually significant step in challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Twenty-one major news publishers, including media organisations owned by Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, have approached the Supreme Court, arguing that India’s digital privacy legislation could undermine investigative journalism, compromise confidential sources […]

The article Indian Digital Media Challenging Modi Govt’s Privacy Law In Supreme Court Is A Major Step appeared first on Latest India news, analysis and reports on Newspack by India Press Agency).

Carton India Alliance Private Limited faces a fresh allegation that it obtained public works contracts exceeding ₹12 crore from Kannur District Panchayat by using another contractor’s licence, widening scrutiny of awards made during former president P P Divya’s tenure. Kerala Students Union state vice-president P Muha…
MLA G Sudhakaran has sharply criticised the state’s Home Department, declaring that the personal qualities and appearance of Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala cannot compensate for shortcomings in the administration. The Ambalappuzha legislator described Chennithala as a good person and an admirable political figure bu…
Doctors who examined former Kerala Health Minister Veena George following a protest at Kannur railway station have told a Special Investigation Team (SIT) that she had no visible external injuries or wounds caused by weapons, further weakening the original attempted murder allegation against five student activists. Th…
Carton India Alliance Private Limited faces a fresh allegation that it obtained public works contracts exceeding ₹12 crore from Kannur District Panchayat by using another contractor’s licence, widening scrutiny of awards made during former president P P Divya’s tenure. Kerala Students Union state vice-president P Muha…

By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers WASHINGTON: The final week of America’s 2026 midterm election campaign has become a high-stakes confrontation between President Donald Trump and a Democratic opposition seeking to turn voter dissatisfaction over the economy into control of Congress. Neither Trump nor former president Barack Obama is on the ballot. Yet both are criss-crossing the […]

The article Barack Obama Imparts Big Momentum To Democratic Campaign In Last Phase appeared first on Latest India news, analysis and reports on Newspack by India Press Agency).

The Congress-led United Democratic Front government on Monday defended its decision to provide a cheaper generic medicine for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), promising efforts to reduce the treatment cost further amid Opposition allegations about patient safety. Chief Minister V D Satheesan told the Assembly that Natco…

By Nantoo Banerjee The long-drawn Ukraine-Russia war seems to be turning out to become the world’s largest and most expensive proxy war in the modern era, in which the European Union and the United Kingdom have so far spent nearly $300 billion on Ukraine to tame Russia. The Syrian civil war since 2011 may be […]

The article The UK, EU Spent Billions On Ukraine To Proxy-Fight Russia appeared first on Latest India news, analysis and reports on Newspack by India Press Agency).

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has secured an unprecedented fourth term after defeating right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro in a closely contested presidential runoff, although his opponent has refused to accept the result. Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court confirmed that Lula, representing the Workers’ Party, received 51.79 per cent of valid votes against 48.21 per cent for Bolsonaro, a senator from the Liberal Party. The final tally […]

CPM state secretary M V Govindan on Sunday accused the BJP of using the Governor to undermine the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC), describing the recommendation to remove its chairman and members as unconstitutional and undemocratic. Addressing a press conference in Kannur, Govindan alleged that former Governor…
Former Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has recommended that President Droupadi Murmu remove Public Service Commission chairman M R Baiju and other commission members over alleged recruitment irregularities, according to Lok Bhavan officials. The recommendation emerged on Sunday, two days after Arlekar relinquishe…
The United Democratic Front government faced conflicting positions within its Cabinet on Sunday after Revenue Minister A P Anilkumar criticised former Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar’s recommendation to remove the Public Service Commission chairman and members, while Health Minister K Muraleedharan defended the i…
Kerala police are likely to record the statement of a former employee of the Indo-Malaysian consortium PATI-BEL in connection with the vigilance investigation involving Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the 2006 suicide of Malaysian engineer Lee See Been. The prospective witness, described as a friend and…
The state government has extended the suspension of Additional Director General of Police M R Ajith Kumar by another 120 days over allegations that he interfered with an investigation into the assault of opposition activists during the previous Left Democratic Front administration. The decision comes after the senior…
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