Archive — 13 October 2026

Kerala High Court expects Data Protection Board to be made functional within eight weeks in Digi Yatra PIL

13 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology

Kerala High Court upholds Section 69 of the Indian Succession Act, which revokes a Christian's will on marriage

13 Oct Polity & Governance

Kerala publishes revised eco-sensitive area map, cutting the proposed area to 8,590.69 sq km

13 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance

Kerala tables the Senior Citizens' (Care and Protection of Rights) Bill and refers it to the Subject Committee

13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance

Kerala High Court Division Bench reserves verdict on whether non-parties can appeal the order for an FIR in the CMRL-Exalogic case

13 Oct Polity & Governance

High Court admits State's appeals against ruling that quashed restructuring of police associations

13 Oct Polity & Governance

Kerala Assembly passes Rule 118 resolution seeking removal of Chief Election Commissioner

13 Oct Polity & Governance

Kerala considers extending the Pay Revision Commission's term

13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance

Kerala Police to flag off 164 new vehicles and felicitate Asian Games athletes

13 Oct Awards & Persons Sports

Keralam Senior Citizens (Care and Protection of Rights) Bill, 2026 introduced in the Assembly

13 Oct Polity & Governance

State child rights commission asks duty bearers to follow central child protection guidelines strictly

13 Oct Polity & Governance

Kozhikode district: 2344 sq km, 4 taluks, 70 panchayats and 13 Assembly constituencies

Background Polity & Governance

Palakkad, the district with no coastline that opens Kerala to the rest of India through the 32 to 40 km Palakkad Gap

Background Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate

Pathanamthitta, Kerala's thirteenth revenue district, carved out of three districts with the Sabarimala Sannidhanam area

Background Polity & Governance

Kannur in the freedom struggle: the Pazhassi Raja revolt and the Payyannur Salt Satyagraha

Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance

Kerala publishes a revised cadastral map cutting the proposed ecologically sensitive area to 8,590.69 sq km

13 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance

Excise Minister tells the Assembly cases are registered against three bars over liquor served before the Nedumbassery crash

13 Oct Polity & Governance

Kasaragod, formed from the Hosdurg and Kasaragod taluks of Kannur, and the Nileswaram seat of Kerala's first Chief Minister

Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance

Kerala Forest Research Institute: founded in 1975 at Peechi in Thrissur, a KSCSTE institution since 2002

Background Environment & Climate Science & Technology

Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology: from a small society in 1990 to a national institute taken over by the Union Government

Background Health & Medicine Science & Technology

NIT Calicut: a Regional Engineering College of 1961 that became an NIT in 2002, an institution of national importance under the NIT Act 2007

Background Education & Exams Science & Technology

IIM Kozhikode: the fifth IIM, founded in 1996, with a first batch of 42 and a hill-top campus at Kunnamangalam

Background Education & Exams

Kerala State Planning Board: first constituted in September 1967 with Chief Minister E. M. S. Namboothiripad as Chairperson

Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance

Thrissur, the cultural capital of Kerala and land of Poorams: 3,032 sq km, with literacy of 95.32% in the Census figures

Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance

Keralam Senior Citizens' Bill tabled in the Assembly with a protection unit for every district

13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance

'Kuttu' released as the mascot of the 68th Kerala State School Sports Meet to be held at Kozhikode

13 Oct Education & Exams Sports

Kerala High Court upholds the automatic revocation of a Christian's will on marriage

13 Oct Polity & Governance

Kerala High Court orders the balance post-surgery aid of Rs 21,000 be paid to a transgender person

13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance

CAG puts undue benefit to contractors in Rebuild Kerala roadworks at Rs 67.49 crore

13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance

Kerala tables a Senior Citizens Bill with a protection unit in every district

13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance

Kerala High Court refuses an interim stay of the single Bench order for a Vigilance FIR in the CMRL pay-off case

13 Oct Polity & Governance

Kerala hotels association to stop taking UPI payments above ₹2,000 over the 0.4% merchant fee

13 Oct Economy & Banking

Kerala to act tough against bars that serve liquor to people below the legal age of 23, Excise Minister tells the Assembly

13 Oct Polity & Governance

Malappuram, the land atop the hills: 3550 sq km, 9.13% of Kerala and third in the State by area

Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance

The University of Kerala, founded as the University of Travancore and among the first 16 universities in India

Background Education & Exams Polity & Governance

Malayalam among India's Classical Languages, and the Linguistic Experts Committee that recommends the status

Background Art, Culture & History Education & Exams

Kottayam, the Akshara Nagari that was India's first fully literate town

Background Art, Culture & History Education & Exams

Malappuram, the land atop the hills, and the four rivers that cross it

Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance

Pathanamthitta, the thirteenth revenue district of Kerala

Background Polity & Governance

The University of Kerala, founded as the University of Travancore

Background Art, Culture & History Education & Exams

Kudumbashree, the community network built to work with Kerala's local self-governments

Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance

Keralam sanctions ₹63.37 crore to clear Supplyco's paddy procurement liability

13 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking

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