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Overcoming a slew of political controversies that rocked the state in the last few months, the Left Democratic Front has made clear gains in the crucial Kerala local body elections, considered a curtain raiser for the Assembly elections due next year.
Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac has proposed a handful of welfare schemes in the state Budget today. We will do a short analysis of the LDF governments final budget along with a top bank executive S Adikesavan.
The political fronts the ruling Left Democratic Front, UDF and BJPled NDA have claimed that this election will be crucial and a turning point for the southern state, which Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had earlier described as the last fort of secularism.
Prasanth is the LDF candidate in Vattiyoorkavu. He has been maintaining a consistent lead since the counting began on Thursday morning. Now, he is all set to register an upset victory. Prashants popularity surged after he coordinated flood relief activities recently. His team sent truckloads of relief materials to the landslidehit Malappuram and Wayanad districts. His efforts won him plenty of accolades on social media.
The suspense over Kerala assembly byelection is set to end soon. Will the ruling Left Democratic Front emerge winners How many seats will the opposition United Democratic Front get Will National Democratic Alliance prove its strength this time We will get answers in a few hours.
Janeesh is a novice in electoral politics. Political pundits did not give him a chance for victory. Many expected that the ire of the Hindu Nair community against the ruling LDF government would work against him. Internal squabbling also appears to have dented the UDF chances.
Kerala is all set to welcome the southwest monsoon. In this episode of Lets Talk podcast, renowned weather scientist Dr S Abhilash explains the history of monsoon, differences between southwest monsoon and northeast monsoon, different models used to predict the onset of monsoon, reasons for forecast variations, temporal and spatial differences of rainfall and the chances of another floods in Kerala.
From 1996 to 2016, Congresss Adoor Prakash had been continuously winning from Konni. Making it his personal fort. But things changed in 2019 when CPMs KU Jenish Kumar defeated Congress candidate Mohanraj by nearly 10,000 votes in the bypoll.
The election results are finally out and we know that the Pinarayi Vijayan is going to create history in Kerala by becoming the first chief minister to continue in power. An analysis of the LDFwin with Onmanorama reporters on what went behind this historic victory and what is there to look forward.
Balagopal estimates tax revenues to grow by 58.6 percent. This could probably even be a printing error as in the last seven fiscals states own tax revenue had never gone above 10 percent and never ever has annual growth in collections crossed 26 percent.
The United Democratic Front won three out of the five constituencies in the Kerala assembly bypolls today. LDF performed well as it wrested power in Congress bastions of Vattiyoorkavu and Konni. Both with a margin of around 10,000 votes. In Onmanoramas special election results coverage, Ajish George is joined by Haritha Benjamin, TA Ameerdheen and Ronnie Kuriakose to analyse the bypoll results.
On top of Keralas priority list this time is a request to expand its borrowing limit. A state can borrow 3 per cent of its GDP from the open market each fiscal. Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac had been constantly demanding to push the limit to 3.5 per cent of the GDP.
Dr Aravindan retired as the head of pathology department from the Government Medical College Kozhikode. He was the former president of Keralas people science movement, Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad.
Dr T V Sajeev, who works with the Kerala Forest Research Institute, explains what is Athirappilly hydro electric power project, how it will negatively impact the biodiversity, how the governments approved the project and history of mass protests against controversial projects and environmental consciousness of Keralites.
Dale, who researched on the Malabar Rebellion in the 1970s, is the author of a seminal book on the rebellion Islamic Society on the South Asian Frontier: The Mappilas of Malabar which is often quoted in books and discussions dealing with the incident.
Some researchers and doctors have started using plasma from those who recovered from COVID19 to treat critically ill new patients. Onmanorama spoke to Dr Mahesh B, the head of Critical care medicine at Aster MIMS in Kozhikode, to learn more about convalescent plasma therapy.
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With the rapid increase of COVID19 in the country and the world, panic has started gripping peoples mind. Medical names and terms like Coronavirus, COVID19, quarantine etc have become the most used terms these days.
With the COVID19 cases spiking in many countries, its clear that the pandemic not going to end anytime soon. And hence, people are pinning their hopes on a vaccine. We have been hearing a lot about the status of vaccines and treatments for the novel coronavirus, but how close are we to getting an effective vaccine
S Sreesanth, who is aiming for a comeback after the end of his sevenyear ban from cricket this September, tells about how he is preparing to play for Kerala in the Ranji Trophy.
With the COVID19 cases spiking in many countries, its clear that the pandemic not going to end anytime soon. And hence, people are pinning their hopes on a vaccine. We have been hearing a lot about the status of vaccines and treatments for the novel coronavirus, but how close are we to getting an effective vaccine
India had realised James uncanny knack in data analysing after the demonetisation in 2017. That time, his insightful tweets and sharp blog posts educated thousands of people about the long and short term impacts of the governments decision.
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