Rajesh Abraham

Chief Minister V D Satheesan's maiden budget as finance minister was less an exercise in accounting and more a statement of intent.

KOCHI: Kerala's agrarian distress has claimed an alarming human toll, with 24,591 farmers and farm workers dying by suicide between 1995 and 2022. That amounts to an average of 1,069 deaths every year, exposing the deepening crisis in the state's rural economy.

The study later shaped Supreme Court jurisprudence, from the 2010 Arun Kumar Agrawal ruling to its landmark June 11, 2026 verdict recognising unpaid domestic work as economically valuable.

KOCHI: Long before the Supreme Court declared homemakers as “nation builders” and directed that their unpaid domestic work be valued at a minimum of Rs 30,000 a

KOCHI: More than six weeks after the Congress-led UDF assumed office, several influential cabinet-rank and policy-making positions remain vacant, triggering int

TDB begins biggest digital transformation drive with PMU led by retired IAS officer Dr Santhosh Babu to modernise temple management systems.

KOCHI: Nearly three decades after Malayali expatriates emerged as one of the largest contributors to the 1998 Resurgent India Bonds (RIBs) scheme, Kerala's global diaspora is once again at the forefront of a major foreign-currency mobilisation drive.

KOCHI: With rows of long beans climbing trellises, okra plants flowering and cucumber vines spreading across his three-acre farm in Kalady, Binumon K G is racing against time for the Onam harvest. If the weather holds, the award-winning farmer's fields will supply long beans, naadan beans, ladies' finger and cucumbers to festival markets, while elephant foot yam, banana and tapioca add to the farm's diversity.

KOCHI: They put their money into an infrastructure project that did not yet exist. More than three decades later, some of those early backers of Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) are in danger of losing the shares they bought when the ambitious development was still taking shape.

KOCHI: Loknath Behera is unlikely to get another extension as the managing director of Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL), with the UDF government weighing new faces t