Kodiyeri Balakrishnan

Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan died at Apollo Hospital in Chennai on Saturday night, party sources here said. He was 69.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Friday alleged that Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan was trying to expropriate the only Left government in the country.

Veteran Congress leader K V Thomas on Wednesday brushed aside CPI(M) Kerala secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan's invitation to join the Left party.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was born around two decades after the Vaikkom Satyagraha into a Thiyya family - in northern Kerala, the Thiyyas are the traditional toddy tappers. He himself may have had little experience in the trade, but the tag, often a slur in Malayalam, stuck and came handy to rivals seeking a verbal stab at him.

With all COVID-19 protocols in place, the counting of votes for Kerala local body elections has begun.

Even as Kerala gears up for a high-stakes local body election in December, only months before the state Assembly elections scheduled for mid-2021, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPIM) today approved a leave of absence for Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the state party secretary, on medical grounds.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today ended a 24-hour long raid at the Thiruvananthapuram residence of Bineesh Kodiyeri, the son of CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. The family residing there alleged it was being pressured into signing documents stating that a debit card was found during the search, which it denied.

The Enforcement Directorate probing a money laundering case against Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI(M) secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, on Wednesday conducted searches at his house as also multiple locations in the city and various parts of Kerala.

A day after it arrested Bineesh Kodiyeri, the son of Kerala CPI(M) leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the Enforcement Directorate said on Friday that he allegedly credited "huge amount of unaccounted funds" into the bank accounts of a drug peddler.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today arrested Bineesh Kodiyeri, the son of Kerala CPI(M) leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, in a money laundering case related to drugs seizure, official sources said.

Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI-M secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, on Thursday deposed before the Enforcement Directorate and was questioned in connection with the allegations of his links with an accused in Bengaluru drug case.

Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of CPI(M) Kerala State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan who was issued summons for early Wednesday by the Enforcement Directorate, was questioned for almost 11 hours in connection to the Kerala gold smuggling case at the agency's Kochi office.

The Customs department has decided to investigate the alleged links between a key accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case and a prime accused in the Bengaluru drug trafficking, even as a political slugfesterupted between the Congress and CPI(M) over the issue.

Five buildings with over 350 flats in a posh locality in Kochi have become the centre of protests, after the Supreme Court ordered for their demolition by September 20.

The ruling CPI(M)'s state secretary, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, on Monday said nobody attempted to settle the rape allegation levelled against his son Binoy Kodiyeri by a Mumbai-based woman.

Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan died at Apollo Hospital in Chennai on Saturday night, party sources here said. He was 69.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Friday alleged that Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan was trying to expropriate the only Left government in the country.

Veteran Congress leader K V Thomas on Wednesday brushed aside CPI(M) Kerala secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan's invitation to join the Left party.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was born around two decades after the Vaikkom Satyagraha into a Thiyya family - in northern Kerala, the Thiyyas are the traditional toddy tappers. He himself may have had little experience in the trade, but the tag, often a slur in Malayalam, stuck and came handy to rivals seeking a verbal stab at him.

With all COVID-19 protocols in place, the counting of votes for Kerala local body elections has begun.

Even as Kerala gears up for a high-stakes local body election in December, only months before the state Assembly elections scheduled for mid-2021, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPIM) today approved a leave of absence for Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the state party secretary, on medical grounds.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today ended a 24-hour long raid at the Thiruvananthapuram residence of Bineesh Kodiyeri, the son of CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. The family residing there alleged it was being pressured into signing documents stating that a debit card was found during the search, which it denied.

The Enforcement Directorate probing a money laundering case against Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI(M) secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, on Wednesday conducted searches at his house as also multiple locations in the city and various parts of Kerala.

A day after it arrested Bineesh Kodiyeri, the son of Kerala CPI(M) leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the Enforcement Directorate said on Friday that he allegedly credited "huge amount of unaccounted funds" into the bank accounts of a drug peddler.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today arrested Bineesh Kodiyeri, the son of Kerala CPI(M) leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, in a money laundering case related to drugs seizure, official sources said.

Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI-M secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, on Thursday deposed before the Enforcement Directorate and was questioned in connection with the allegations of his links with an accused in Bengaluru drug case.

Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of CPI(M) Kerala State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan who was issued summons for early Wednesday by the Enforcement Directorate, was questioned for almost 11 hours in connection to the Kerala gold smuggling case at the agency's Kochi office.

The Customs department has decided to investigate the alleged links between a key accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case and a prime accused in the Bengaluru drug trafficking, even as a political slugfesterupted between the Congress and CPI(M) over the issue.

Five buildings with over 350 flats in a posh locality in Kochi have become the centre of protests, after the Supreme Court ordered for their demolition by September 20.

The ruling CPI(M)'s state secretary, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, on Monday said nobody attempted to settle the rape allegation levelled against his son Binoy Kodiyeri by a Mumbai-based woman.