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The CPI-ML has reconstituted its Kerala unit and expelled three leaders, K N Ramachandran, P J James and Sivaraman, for indulging in anti-party activities.

With All India Congress Committee setting deadline for the KPCC revamp in the state as August 31, chief minister Oommen Chandy and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala will once again embark on a mission to New Delhi

Just because a documentary deals with current socio-political issues, it can't be branded anti-national, said state cultural affairs minister A K Balan.

The first name that pops up when asked to name a sacred grove in Ernakulam district is Iringole in Perumabvoor. Recently KSEB's move to draw a 11KV line through a cluster of groves at Kottuvally in Paravur brought another one – Shantivanam – to the limelight.

When the floods hit his farm in August last year Jose Mathew Kochukudy lost close to 12 varieties of nutmegs he had developed through budding. It was an irreparable loss since he had no means to bring them back.

In a series of statements on Wednesday morning, Jayalalithaa announced a revised list of 38 office bearers at the party headquarters.

Ernakulam district 'officially' has 82 sacred groves, though the district's biodiversity convener himself admits that the real number could be as many as 500. In 2012, the number of those who received funding in Ernakulam district -- Rs 20,000 incidentally was what each one got -- was just 15. In 2017-18, only one person was allotted the grant money and is yet to receive it!

CPM leaders hired goons to carry out their conspiracy to murder T P Chandrasekharan, K K Rema, wife of the slain RMP leader, told the special additional district and sessions court (Marad cases) here on Monday.

The political affairs committee (PAC) meeting witnessed a heated debate after former chief minister Chandy skipped the event on Saturday.

The mounting heaps of garbage at Brahmapuram have long been an eye sore but bearable when compared to the olfactory assault it launches on residents of the area which has turned away real estate investors from buying property near it.

Despite their ecological significance, faith and belief in the sacrosanct have been the only things that kept sacred groves in the state protected so far. But natural degradation along with developmental pressures, like what was witnessed at Shantivanam at Kottuvally in North Paravur recently raises several questions about the future of these biodiversity-rich hotspots.

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