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How political vendetta is driving Kerala’s Congress govt to reopen a 2006 suicide case to hound Gyanesh Kumar

Shriti Sagar - 4 October, 2026

The Congress-led UDF government’s decision comes after senior CPI(M) leader and former Kerala Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac revived unfounded allegations surrounding Kumar’s tenure as PWD secretary nearly two decades ago. I

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Kerala: Congress and SFI clash with each other while protesting against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, hurl stones and bottles

OpIndia Staff - 1 October, 2026

Violent clashes erupted between Youth Congress and SFI members during a protest march taken out by the former.

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Evangelism advocacy, Palmolein graft case, Congress bonhomie and more: Who is ex-Kerala chief secretary Jiji Thomson attacking CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Shraddha Pandey - 27 September, 2026

Former Kerala Chief Secretary, Jiji Thomson claimed that in 2016, then IAS officer Gyanesh Kumar asked him to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a BJP candidate from Pathanamthitta, very persuasively.

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Kerala: 55.72 sovereign gold crown goes missing from Lord Ayyappa temple, imitation found in its place during verification; read details

OpIndia Staff - 24 September, 2026

The imitation weighs only 240 grams, but the real gold crown, which was donated to the temple, weighed 445.78 grams.

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Keralam: Journalist Aparna Kurup booked for protesting against Sunni cleric’s anti-women remarks; case filed by her against Islamist youth leader withdrawn after Muslim League’s...

OpIndia Staff - 8 September, 2026

"When the Islamophobia inside her came out, Abdulla put forward a debate exposing it with clear facts," Firos contended.

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Infighting breaks out within the Congress in Kerala, party MLA booked after clash with workers: Here is what happened

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2026

The Kerala episode comes at a time when internal disagreements are also becoming increasingly visible in the Congress unit of Telangana. In recent weeks, differences between Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and other Congress leaders have split into the open.

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Keralam: Video removed, anchor Aparna Kurup forced to apologise for criticising Sunni cleric’s diktat against allowing women in public sphere; BJP slams channel for...

OpIndia Staff - 2 September, 2026

Big TV's Senior Coordinating Editor, Aparna Kurup, has been made to apologise after taking a strong stance against Keralam's grand mufti, Sunni cleric AP Aboobacker Musliyar, over his recent controversial statement in relation to keeping women confined to their homes.

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The Grand Mufti of India cites Quran to defend confinement of Muslim women to homes: Will Rahul Gandhi ‘smash patriarchy’ in the Quran too?

Jinit Jain - 31 August, 2026

Rahul Gandhi wants to “smash patriarchy” when attacking Manusmriti. Will he show the same courage when a Muslim cleric invokes the Quran to confine women to their homes?

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