Footnote Last week, the National People’s Party-led Meghalaya government appointed the BJP state unit president, Ernest Mawrie, as adviser to the chief minister, Conrad Sangma. He will advise ...

The lack of initiative from Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government to engage leaders of two minority communities to find lasting peace to the communal tension triggered by a Catholic bishop&r...

There is no ‘unequal pedestal’ before the law. The Supreme Court reasserted this principle while sitting on the Kerala government’s plea for the withdrawal of criminal cases filed ag...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by the Kerala government for withdrawal of a criminal case against some LDF MLAs in connection with a ruckus in the state Assembly in 2015, saying allow...

The Indian National League (INL), a constituent of Kerala's ruling LDF, split into two irreconcilable factions following an infighting which led to a street fight between two warring groups here o...

High literacy does not automatically lead to gender justice. This is what Kerala found to its shock with the recent rise in cases of violence against women such as suicide and domestic abuse following...

Sir — The exclusion of K.K. Shailaja, popularly known as ‘Shailaja teacher’, from the incoming Left Democratic Front government in Kerala has come as a complete surprise (“Shai...

Amidst the heightened social media campaign to induct K K Shailaja into the new cabinet, the CPI(M) on Wednesday said the dropping of the popular health minister was a "political and organisation...

With the victory of the Trinamul Congress in West Bengal, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu and the Left Democratic Front in Kerala, a familiar question has again cropped up: can an alliance...

Kerala Health Minister in the outgoing Assembly, K K Shailaja, did not find a place in the new cabinet on Tuesday, which has 11 new faces from the CPI (M). Shailaja was praised internationally last ye...