Sovi Vidyadharan

• CPM activist, 4 others arrested for Chandrashekaran's murder

  Kerala Police have arrested five people, including a CPM activist for their alleged involvement in the murder of a former party leader in north Kerala. TP Chandrashekaran, who quit the CPM a few years ago and launched an outfit called the Revolutionary Marxist Party, was murdered in Kozhikode on May 4.

• Achuthanandan trains his guns on CPM state secretary Vijayan

  Former Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan has once again openly hit out at the CPM state leadership led by his arch-rival Pinarayi Vijayan, saying the state secretary's word is not the final word in the party. The 88-year-old Marxist veteran even likened Mr Vijayan to former Communist leader SA Dange, who was often criticised for his autocratic...

• Mullaperiyar controversy: Kerala reiterates demand for new dam despite adverse report

  Kerala will continue its legal battle in the Supreme Court to enable the construction of a new dam replacing the 116-year-old structure at Mullaperiyar. This depsite the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee's report asking Kerala to re-consider its demand for a new dam.

• 15-yr-old arrested for allegedy killing classmate as revenge

  Police have taken into custody a 15-year-old for allegedly murdering his classmate inside the school premises. The body of Legin, a class X student, was found inside the St George Higher Secondary school compound at Muttar on Monday night. There was a deep cut on his neck and his head battered with a stone lying nearby.

• Kerala Police to identify lakhs of unregistered migrant labourers

  Kerala Police is all set to start the complex task of identifying and registering lakhs of migrant labourers in the state. The move assumes significance in the wake of a huge increase in the number of labourers from other states in recent years and some of them getting involved in criminal activities.

• Former Communist Party of India (Marxist) activist hacked to death

  Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan, who was expelled from the CPM in 2009, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants at Vadakara in Kozhikode district late last night. Police say 52-year-old Chandrasekharan was attacked at around 10.15 PM on Friday. The assailants, who came in a car, hurled country-made bombs at Chandrashe...

• Fishermen shooting case: Boat owner withdraws compensation case

  The owner of a boat, on which two fishermen were killed by Italian marines in February, has withdrawn the compensation case after receiving Rs 17 lakh as damages from the Italian government. Freddy, owner of the fishing boat St Antony, also reportedly gave an undertaking to Italian authorities stating that he "pardons the marines in the name of God...

• Congress fields CPM rebel in Kerala assembly by-poll

  The Congress in Kerala has declared renegade CPM leader R Selvaraj as its candidate for the upcoming assembly by-election in Neyyattinkara. Selvaraj, a two-time MLA, was also inducted into the Congress at an election convention in Neyyattinkara near here on Wednesday.

• Italian marines' family members meet them in jail

  Family members of the two Italian marines - Lattore Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone - visited them at the Central Prison on Thursday where the duo is lodged in connection with the killing of two Indian fishermen off the Alappuzha coast in February. After a meeting that lasted nearly two hours, the family members said they were satisfied with the ...

• Oommen Chandy, Ramesh Chennithala patch up ahead of crucial bypoll

  Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and state Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday put up a show of unity amid reports that the recent cabinet expansion had created a major rift between the two leaders.

• Kerala cabinet reshuffle on communal lines?

  In what is seen as a bid to keep the communal and caste equations in his cabinet intact, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has given up the powerful Home Affairs portfolio. Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, who held the Revenue portfolio, will be the new Home Minister. "I have given up the Home portfolio to devote more time for my other duties." Chan...

• Congress concedes to Muslim League's demand for ministerial berth

  After days of hectic parleys, Kerala's ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) alliance has decided to induct two new ministers into the cabinet.

• Kerala's ruling alliance caught in a caste conundrum

  Kerala ministerial berths, United Democratic Front, UDF, Muslim League, Muslim League Kerala, Oommen Chandy, Ramesh Chennithala

• Italian ship not to leave Indian waters: Kerala High Court

  A day after a single judge bench of the Kerala High Court allowed Italian ship MV Enrica Lexie to leave Indian waters, a division bench of the court has stayed the order. The ship has been under the custody of Indian authorities for the last month-and-a-half after two Italian navy guards on board the vessel shot dead two Indian fishermen off the Ke...

• Trouble brewing in Kerala's ruling alliance

  Trouble is brewing in Kerala's ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) alliance, barely a week after its outstanding win in the Piravom assembly bypoll. A worried Congress has now sought more time from its allies to defuse the crisis.