3 November 2026
A special voter registration campaign called Campus to Booth has begun in Kerala's educational institutions.
The Election Commission runs the drive, which goes on from 2 to 7 November in colleges and schools.
Anyone who has turned 18 can register, and those who will turn 18 on 1 January 2027 may apply in advance.
Students can finish registration on their phones through the ECI NET app, and the sessions teach them how to use it.
Electoral Literacy Clubs in the institutions are tracing eligible students who are not yet on the rolls.
Institutions that reach full voter registration will be honoured on National Voters' Day, 25 January.
The Alappuzha district launch was held at St. Joseph's College and was inaugurated by District Collector Shaji V. Nair.
Campaign period:
2 to 7 November
App used:
ECI NET
Advance application cutoff:
turning 18 on 1 January 2027
National Voters' Day:
25 January
Why it matters for exams: Names the Campus to Booth voter registration campaign, the ECI NET app, Electoral Literacy Clubs and National Voters' Day on 25 January.
Kerala PSCUPSCSSC
In plain words
ELC Electoral Literacy Club — A club in a school or college that teaches students about voting and helps them enrol.
3 November 2026
Kerala has told holders of the Kalakara Pension to submit fresh papers if they want the monthly pension to continue.
The pension is paid by the Department of Cultural Affairs to artists of the State.
Pensioners must file a life certificate for November along with an income certificate, a copy of their Aadhaar card and a copy of their bank passbook.
The papers must reach the Cultural Affairs Department office by 30 November.
That office works out of Ananthavilasam Palace at Fort in Thiruvananthapuram.
The notice was issued through the Information and Public Relations Department.
A life certificate is the standard yearly proof that a pensioner is alive, and non-submission stops the payment.
Scheme:
Kalakara Pension
Department:
Department of Cultural Affairs
Last date:
30 November 2026
Office:
Ananthavilasam Palace, Fort, Thiruvananthapuram
Why it matters for exams: Names the Kalakara Pension of Kerala's Department of Cultural Affairs and the documents and 30 November deadline fixed for its continuance.
Kerala PSCSSC
In plain words
Life certificate Life certificate — A yearly document proving a pensioner is alive, without which the pension stops.
3 November 2026
Kerala has launched a digital system to register and follow up public complaints that reach the Home Minister directly.
Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala inaugurated it at Thiruvananthapuram.
Under the system a complaint is registered at once, the complainant is told what action follows, and the status can be checked online.
Alongside it the Home Department will run a project called HOMeS, which puts a dashboard in the minister's office for real-time monitoring of matters such as missing-persons cases and fraud cases.
The minister said the system will be used only to track the progress of investigations and improve coordination between wings, and will not interfere with police investigations.
The dashboard will also let the office watch how first information reports are being registered.
The aim is to make the working of the police more open to the public.
Project alongside:
HOMeS
Launched by:
Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala
Monitored at:
A dashboard in the Home Minister's office
Why it matters for exams: Names the HOMeS project of Kerala's Home Department and the digital complaint system launched by Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala to monitor complaints and FIR registration.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
FIR First Information Report — The first written record a police station makes of information about a cognizable offence.
3 November 2026
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has set aside a single judge's interim order that had let suspended students of the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit at Kalady sit their examinations.
Justices Anil K. Narendran and S. Muralikrishna held that the single judge's order ran contrary to the rules.
Ten of the suspended students will therefore not write the examinations that begin the next day.
The appeal was filed by Vice-Chancellor Ciza Thomas, who had taken the position that the students who joined the protest did not have the attendance the rules require.
The Division Bench accepted the attendance requirement as the basis for keeping them out.
The students had been suspended over a protest on the campus.
The single judge had earlier allowed them to appear, and the university took that order in appeal.
University:
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady
Bench:
Justices Anil K. Narendran and S. Muralikrishna
Appellant:
Vice-Chancellor Ciza Thomas
Why it matters for exams: Settles that a university's minimum attendance rule can keep suspended students out of examinations, in the appeal filed by the Vice-Chancellor of the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
Division Bench Division Bench — A bench of two or more judges of a High Court, which can hear appeals from a single judge.
3 November 2026
Kerala has invited applications for an online batch of a Communicative English course.
The course is run by Reach, the finishing school of the Kerala State Women's Development Corporation.
Candidates who have passed Plus Two or hold a degree may apply.
Applications close on 9 November.
Those interested can apply through the Reach website or call the numbers given in the notice.
A finishing school of this kind trains candidates in language, communication and workplace skills rather than in an academic subject.
The Kerala State Women's Development Corporation is the State undertaking that runs skilling, credit and welfare programmes for women.
The notice was issued through the Information and Public Relations Department.
Course:
Communicative English, online batch
Run by:
Reach, finishing school of the Kerala State Women's Development Corporation
Eligibility:
Plus Two or degree
Last date:
9 November
Why it matters for exams: Names Reach as the finishing school of the Kerala State Women's Development Corporation and its Communicative English course, open to Plus Two and degree holders.
Kerala PSCSSC
In plain words
Finishing school Finishing school — An institution that trains candidates in language, communication and workplace skills rather than an academic subject.
3 November 2026
Kerala has invited applications for a diploma and post graduate diploma in Advanced Journalism and Media Strategies.
The course is offered by Keltron, a public sector undertaking of the State government.
Candidates who have passed Plus Two or hold a degree may apply, and the last date is 10 November.
Applications are taken at the Keltron centres in Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram.
The training covers journalism, news presentation, social media content creation, videography and video editing.
It spans print, television and digital media and takes in the use of artificial intelligence.
Keltron is better known for electronics manufacturing and public utility projects, and also runs training centres across the State.
The notice was issued through the Information and Public Relations Department.
Course:
Advanced Journalism and Media Strategies, diploma and post graduate diploma
Offered by:
Keltron, a Kerala government public sector undertaking
Centres:
Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram
Last date:
10 November
Why it matters for exams: Names Keltron, a Kerala government public sector undertaking, as the institution offering the Advanced Journalism and Media Strategies post graduate diploma, with centres at Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram.
Kerala PSCSSC
In plain words
PSU Public Sector Undertaking — A company owned by the central or a state government.
3 November 2026
Kerala's Handloom Textiles Directorate and the Alappuzha District Industries Centre are holding a drawing competition for school students to promote the use of handloom cloth.
It is open to students in Alappuzha district in the lower primary, upper primary and high school sections.
There are three categories: crayons for the lower primary section, a separate upper primary category, and watercolour for the high school section.
The competition runs at district and state level, and students placed first or second in the district round go on to the state round.
The district round is on 28 November at the conference hall of the Government Girls High School.
Applications certified by the school head must reach the District Industries Centre by 5 pm on 16 November.
The Handloom Textiles Directorate is the State department that oversees handloom and powerloom work in Kerala, while a District Industries Centre is the district office for small industry promotion.
Organisers:
Handloom Textiles Directorate and Alappuzha District Industries Centre
Sections:
Lower primary, upper primary and high school
District round:
28 November
Application deadline:
5 pm on 16 November
Why it matters for exams: Names the Kerala Handloom Textiles Directorate and the District Industries Centre as the bodies behind the handloom promotion drawing competition, and what each of them does.
Kerala PSCSSC
In plain words
DIC District Industries Centre — The district-level office that promotes and assists small and medium industry.
Handloom Handloom — Cloth woven on a loom worked by hand and foot, without power.
3 November 2026
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla opened the All-India Conference of Chairpersons and Members of Public Accounts Committees at the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
Delegates and officials from 26 states are taking part, and the two-day plenary sits in the Assembly Hall.
Its theme is "Audit, Accountability and Good Governance: Evolving Role of the PAC".
K.C. Venugopal, who chairs Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, called the PAC the biggest tool of parliamentary financial control and asked that one PAC report be taken up in every session of Parliament.
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan proposed a special campaign to clear pending PAC files.
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson Harivansh Narayan Singh and Kerala PAC chairperson K.N. Balagopal also took part; the conference closes on 4 November.
Venue of the inaugural session:
R. Sankaranarayana Thampi Members' Lounge, Kerala Legislative Assembly
States represented:
26
Conference theme:
Audit, Accountability and Good Governance: Evolving Role of the PAC
Why it matters for exams: Names the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee chairperson K.C. Venugopal, Kerala's PAC chairperson K.N. Balagopal and the Kerala Assembly as host of the all-India PAC conference.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
PAC Public Accounts Committee — The committee of a legislature that examines audited government accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General's reports.
3 November 2026
Kattum Velichavum, made by students of SK Higher Secondary School, Mattathur in Thrissur, has won the first prize in the short film competition of Kerala's Thoofan anti-drug campaign, worth one lakh rupees with a certificate.
Elippetti of St. Thomas High School, Manikkadavu in Kannur came second and Nool of the Government Higher Secondary School, Puthur in Kollam third.
The State Institute of Educational Technology ran the competition with the Home Department for high school, higher secondary and vocational higher secondary students.
More than 300 films were entered, and the best three from each district, 42 in all, reached the state-level selection.
General Education Minister N. Shamsudheen gave away the awards at the State Science and Technology Museum in Thiruvananthapuram, with SCERT Director K.K. Mashood presiding.
Best Director went to E.P. Nachiketh of MD Seminary Higher Secondary School, Kottayam, and the minister said the films will be shown in schools and at Home and Excise Department orientation programmes.
First prize film:
Kattum Velichavum
First prize amount:
Rs 1 lakh
Organiser:
State Institute of Educational Technology with the Home Department
Films at state level:
42
Why it matters for exams: Names the Thoofan anti-drug campaign of Kerala, the State Institute of Educational Technology that ran its short film competition, and Kattum Velichavum as the first prize winner.
Kerala PSCSSC
In plain words
SIET State Institute of Educational Technology — The Kerala body that produces educational media for schools.
SCERT State Council of Educational Research and Training — The State body that frames school curriculum and textbooks and trains teachers.
Background
With the capital hosting a conference of Public Accounts Committee chairpersons this week, the Legislature's own teaching arm is worth knowing.
The Kerala Legislature Secretariat runs the Kerala Legislative Assembly Media and Parliamentary Study Centre, shortened to K-LAMPS, from the Assembly Building in the Legislature Complex, Vikas Bhavan P.O., Thiruvananthapuram.
It grew out of the Centre for Parliamentary Studies and Training, which the Secretariat set up in 2011.
The centre states its mission as fostering democracy by strengthening the institution of the Legislature.
It offers a Post Graduate Diploma in Parliamentary Studies and a Certificate Course in Parliamentary Practice and Procedure.
The certificate course runs six months by distance education, with printed self learning material, assignments, workshops and five or six days of contact classes.
A pass in Higher Secondary or an equivalent qualification is enough, there is no age limit, seats are ordinarily capped at five hundred a session and a batch needs at least ten students.
Contact classes and examinations are ordinarily held at Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and Kozhikode, and the medium is English and Malayalam.
Run by:
Kerala Legislature Secretariat
Location:
Assembly Building, Legislature Complex, Vikas Bhavan P.O., Thiruvananthapuram
Predecessor set up in:
2011
Certificate course length:
Six months
Seat cap a session:
500
Why it matters for exams: K-LAMPS is the Kerala Legislative Assembly Media and Parliamentary Study Centre, run by the Kerala Legislature Secretariat at Vikas Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram, successor to the Centre for Parliamentary Studies and Training set up in 2011.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
K-LAMPS Kerala Legislative Assembly Media and Parliamentary Study Centre — The Kerala Legislature Secretariat's own centre for parliamentary studies, training and internships.
Background
This background goes with the all-India conference of Public Accounts Committee chairpersons being hosted this week at the Kerala Legislative Assembly, where both presiding officers of the House took part.
Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan is the Speaker of the Kerala Legislature. He represents the Kottayam constituency, was born on 26 December 1949 and holds BA and LLB degrees.
Shanimol Osman is the Deputy Speaker. She represents the Aroor constituency and belongs to the Indian National Congress.
The Speaker presides over sittings of the House, rules on points of order and names the members of its committees.
The Deputy Speaker presides when the Speaker is not in the chair.
The Legislature's own website lists both offices with their holders, their constituencies and their office contacts in the Assembly building.
The Assembly's business records also keep a separate list of resolutions moved for the removal of a Speaker, which shows that the office can be vacated only by the House itself.
Speaker:
Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan
Speaker's constituency:
Kottayam
Deputy Speaker:
Shanimol Osman
Deputy Speaker's constituency:
Aroor
Why it matters for exams: Names the Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan of Kottayam, and the Deputy Speaker, Shanimol Osman of Aroor, as the Legislature's own website lists them.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
Point of order Point of order — An objection raised in the House that the rules of procedure are not being followed.