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Legal Matters | Sabarimala temple entry is now a larger issue
Entry of women into places of worship will now be addressed from a broader perspective and will not be seen from the prism of customs surrounding one particular temple. However, there will be no stay on the SC order allowing women of menstrual age entering the Sabarimala temple.
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Politics | Questions the Kerala Police's actions raise
The actions of the Kerala Police in certain cases pose serious questions about whether the force is able to do its duty in a free and fair manner, and whether it is able to protect the lives of citizens.
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Kerala bypoll | UDF wins 3 out of 5 seats, but still the loser; Congress infighting hurts
The UDF will expect the Congress to try and put its house in order, which as usual is a picture of infighting
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Kerala bypolls | Winners will lose and the losers will win
The tangled webs that are getting woven by the opposing political camps makes one wonder at how dexterously political yarns get spun in Kerala.
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Politics | Supreme Court orders and a Janus-faced Kerala government
The Left government’s readiness to demolish and rebuild a new flyover and its reluctance to demolish an apartment complex violating environmental norms does not show it in good light.
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Floods | For Kerala, salvation is in accepting the Gadgil report
Governments in Kerala, led by both the Congress and Left, have dismissed the Report of the Western Ghats Ecology Export Panel, 2011. As the consecutive floods have shown, the government can no longer ignore the state’s fragile ecology.
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Politics | A bureaucrat, an accident and a callous Kerala government
A young journalist was killed in an accident by a car allegedly driven by a prominent bureaucrat. Rather than following procedure, the police and hospital officials helped the accused get away — and the Left government has looked the other way.
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Politics | Kerala’s double standards towards businesses and industry
While at one hand the Left government is trying to project an image of being business-friendly, on the other it is stuck in petty red-tape.
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Politics & Policy | Indian bureaucracy and Modi 2.0’s accountability litmus
The Modi government’s efforts to rid deadwood from the bureaucracy is a good start; but to achieve greater efficiency it can be tightened further.
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Political Pulse | BJP needs to tweak its formula in Kerala
Having saturated its organic growth model, the Kerala BJP will be forced to seek more electoral allies, and should do this before the 2021 assembly polls.
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Reverse sweep | For the BJP, Kerala still remains a puzzle
Trust God’s Own Country to say it in its own style. Even for the die-hard Congress fan, the party’s superlative show in the state has come as a big surprise.
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Exit Polls | Kerala marches to a different beat
For the Congress, a predicted win in the state will be a mixed bag as its seemingly major victory finds no resonance in the rest of the country.
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Politics | It’s premature to write off the Left in Kerala
No punter would be ready to lay a wager on the total eclipse of the CPI(M) in Kerala and herald a resultant rise of a saffron reign. That too at a time when there are more takers for the pan-India retreat of the saffron wave.
