BJP’s Thiruvananthapuram corporation councillor R Sugathan Kochi: High court on Monday directed the superintendent of Viyyur Central Jail in Thrissur to make the necessary arrangements for BJP’s Thiruvananthapuram corporation councillor R Sugathan to retake his oath inside the prison at 11am on Tuesday. Sugathan is currently under preventive detention under Kaapa.A bench of Justice P…
Thiruvananthapuram: Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has decided to seek the opinion of high court before taking a decision on the appointment of the Sabarimala tanthri, following a request by tanthri Kandararu Rajeevaru to hand over his responsibilities to his son Brahmadathan.Rajeevaru, whose branch of the Thazhamon family is scheduled to assume tanthri duties from Malayalam…
“If marriage below 18 years is allowed, it would result in an acknowledged violation of the Pocso Act,” the court noted. PRAYAGRAJ: In a significant ruling affirming the supremacy of child protection laws, the Allahabad high court has held that the legal age of marriage applies uniformly to all citizens irrespective of religion and that…
Chennai: Law is the profession of life, and anything that concerns a human being affects a lawyer too, Kerala High Court judge Justice Devan Ramachandran said on Saturday.Addressing students at the induction programme for various law degree programmes at the VIT School of Law (VITSOL), as the chief guest, he said, “Anything that matters to…
Thiruvananthapuram: INTUC state president R Chandrasekharan welcomed govt’s decision to grant sanction to prosecute him in Kerala State Cashew Development Corporation (KSCDC) corruption case, saying the truth would emerge during the trial.Chandrasekharan, former chairperson of the cashew corporation, said he learnt about the govt’s decision through media reports and questioned why public attention was focused…
Thiruvananthapuram: Opposition leader Pinarayi Vijayan in his reply on Thursday to veteran Congress functionary V M Sudheeran’s remarks on beach sand mining said that it was successive Congress-led govts that supported private mining in Kerala while the LDF consistently opposed it.In a Facebook post, Vijayan said Sudheeran’s statement that the LDF govt had created opportunities…
Deputy mayor Asha Nath takes oath before mayor V V Rajesh at Thiruvananthapuram corporation conference hall on Wednesday Thiruvananthapuram: In an unprecedented development in state’s local self-govt history, 19 BJP councillors of the city corporation retook their oath of office on Wednesday evening, hours after Kerala high court declared their earlier oath invalid for not…
Thiruvananthapuram: Amid continuing controversy and protests over her transfer, former director of health services (DHS), Dr K J Reena, on Wednesday assumed charge as director of Ernakulam Public Health Laboratory after the high court vacated a stay order issued by the Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT).Reena formally took charge while recording her protest in the joining…
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday held that elected representatives in local bodies must take their oath strictly in the form laid down by law, and declared invalid the oaths taken by several BJP councillors in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation after they used names other than “God” or expressions beyond a solemn affirmation. In a judgment…
INTUC president R Chandrasekharan with KPCC president Sunny Joseph and CM V D Satheesan Thiruvananthapuram: The UDF govt has granted sanction to prosecute INTUC state president R Chandrasekharan and others in the CBI case related to alleged irregularities in the import of raw cashew by the Kerala State Cashew Development Corporation between 2006 and 2015,…
