The amount will be paid from the Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF).
The Accredited Social Social Activists (ASHA) on Tuesday intensified their protest here demanding higher wages even as the Kerala government continued to ignore their one-month long strike.
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Ernakulam Bench, on Friday ordered IAS officer B Ashok to continue as principal secretary to the Government (Agriculture) and as Agricultural Production Commissioner in Kerala government.
The Kerala government has extended the suspension period of IAS officer Prasanth N by 120 days, effective from 10 January, following recommendations from the suspension review committee
The Central Government on Monday declared the Wayanad landslide a disaster of "severe nature," five months after the calamity claimed 254 lives and left 128 people missing.
With the dumping of medical and other solid wastes into Tamil Nadu villages along the inter-state border creating a political furor, the Southern Bench of the NGT on Thursday directed the Kerala government to dispose them off within three days.
"Such activities cannot be permitted. Do not assume that the TDB owns the temples; it is merely a trustee managing them," the court said.
The Kerala government on Friday opposed the plea seeking CBI probe into the death of former Kannur Additional District Magistrate(ADM) Naveen Babu.
Apart from the Chief Minister, State Law Minister, Revenue Ministers, Minister in-charge of Waqf V Abdur Rahman and Chairman Waqf Board will attend the meeting to be held online.
The decision came after a meeting between Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the state police chief.
