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Kerala govt to issue ordinance for cutting salary of its staff for COVID-19 battle

The move comes a day after the High Court had stayed an order of the Left government for salary cut of its employees, observing that it lac...

Arif Mohammed Khan sworn in as Kerala Governor

Kerala High Court Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy administered the oath of office to Khan, who was appointed as the 22nd Governor of the state...

Kerala Budget: Movie tickets, beer and wine prices to be dearer

As the southern state faced a severe financial crunch, finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac presented the budgetary proposals for the 2019-20 ...

Clean-up operations gather steam in flood-hit Kerala

The government has set up a control room here to coordinate the cleaning process across the state and the civic bodies have been entrusted ...

P Chidambaram slams fuel price hike, says 'interval' due to Karnataka polls

Chidambaram asked all chief ministers to oppose the ToR of the 15th Finance Commission, which he said was the central govt's "attempt to vi...

ToR of 15th Finance Commission against progressive states: FMs of Kerala, Karnataka & Andhra

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rejected the charge of bias against the southern states, asserting there was no inherent bias or mandat...

Strong Left necessary for India: Jairam Ramesh

The Left also should change and learn people's aspirations, Ramesh said while delivering the keynote address at the centenary celebration o...

Kerala Goods and Services Tax Bill introduced in Assembly

Kerala would take up at the GST council meet tomorrow it's demand for change in rate of tax for dozens of items, including that connected w...

Budget leak: No loss incurred, no need for Finance Minister to resign, says CPI(M)

The "over-enthusiasm" shown by a staff in the Finance Minister's office to give to media the budget highlights triggered all the confusion ...

Bengal finance minister Dr Amit Mitra walks out of GST meeting

West Bengal finance minister warns of a ‘financial emergency’ and ‘political environment of fear’ during his interactions over GST meet.

LDF, Congress slam PM Narendra Modi as people continue to throng banks, ATMs

"The demonetisation of notes has caused inexplicable hardship to common people. Nothing has come to an order yet. No government should take...

LDF govt expresses discontent over GST proposals

Kerala Finance Minister said state has objections to many proposals of the Centre on GST and sought to know if it would consider different ...

In a first, Kerala imposes 14.5% 'fat tax' on junk food

A five per cent tax has been imposed on certain packed foods and a 'fat tax' of 14.5 per cent for burgers, pizzas and pastas served in bran...

LDF alleges communal agenda in delimitation; stages walk out

V S Achuthanandan said IUML, a key partner in the ruling UDF, was trying to complete the delimitation process as per its 'whims and fancies...

Solar Slugfest on, Oommen Chandy's son slaps notice on BJP leader

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's son today shot off a legal notice to a BJP state functionary for making "defamatory" statements.

In the backdrop of climate change and other environmental challenges, Kerala announced a Rs 1000-crore 'Green Fund' for the next five years...

Kerala Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac on Wednesday announced a reduction in luxury tax imposed on hotels, house boats and cable TV opera...