Nearly 50 per cent of voters exercised their franchise in Kerala till 1 p.m. Wednesday to elect a new 140-member assembly, officials said. According to figures released by the chief electoral officer,

Racing to elect a new government, the volatile southern state last recorded 61.2 per cent voter turnout today.

A headline doing the rounds on an otherwise incident free poll day was the case of Moll

The partisan frenzy in the final hours of campaign triggered widespread violence across the state, injuring many including the PWD minister and LDF candidate from Thiruvna-nthapuram, Mr V. Suren-dran

The Kerala police have beefed up security on the state border to check any possible inflow of huge cash and illicit liquor from across the border during elections.
This is being done in the context of the flow of unaccounted money in neighbouring Tamil Nadu becoming rampant. Additional forces have been deployed at all major check posts along the state border.

The partisan frenzy in the final hours of campaign triggered widespread violence across Kerala, inju-ring many, including the PWD minister and LDF candidate from Thiruvananthapuram V. Surendran Pillai.

The Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, on Sunday said that Kerala had landed in a debt trap because of financial mismanagement by the CPI(M)-led LDF government in the last five years.

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The Kerala Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achutha-nandan, on Sunday hit back at the AICC general secretary, Mr Rahul Gandhi, calling him an ‘Amul Baby’.

Mr Gandhi had jested the other day that if the left d

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee taunted senior BJP leader L.K. Advani over his newfound commitment to the Lokpal Bill and his attacks on the UPA, and asked why he had not got it passed when the NDA was in power.

Painting a grim picture of the unemployment situation in Kerala, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took a dig at CPI(M), saying joining this party was one of the three choices for the unemployed youth in the state to get a job.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said that Kerala had landed in a debt trap because of financial mismanagement by the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front government in the last five years.