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Kerala government may move the courts if the Chief Electoral Office continues to stall distribution of drinking water in tankers over code of conduct for the elections, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here on Monday.
Speaking to the media after a meeting of the Cabinet, the Chief Minister said that the Chief Secretary would write again to the Election Commission of India to reconsider the matter urgently and grant clearance which had been refused earlier. If clearance is not forthcoming by tomorrow, the Cabinet would meet in the afternoon to consider legal and other course of action.
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Police is enquiring all angles regarding the death of actor Kalabhavan Mani on March 6.
Police are not confirming yet whether it is murder or suicide, though pesticide chlorpyrifos has been detected on analysis of viscera.
The police are enquiring how pesticide bottles reached the outhouse where Mani was staying. Whether Mani drank any spurious kind of liquor is also being examined. Police have taken several people into custody.
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KPCC president V. M. Sudheeran today demanded withdrawal of government notification excluding the top secret section of the Vigilance and Anti-corruption Bureau dealing with inquiries against present and former ministers, all India service officers and members of Assembly and Parliament from the purview of RTI Act.
Updated report with response of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and copies of the relevant orders.
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Thiruvananthapuram: The selection committee constituted for appointment the State Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners recommended retired Director General of Police Vinson M. Paul for the post of Chief Information Commissioner in preference to Chief Secretary Jiji Thomson and others.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Former State president of BJP V. Muraleedharan said here on Friday that the government was trying to protect corrupt ministers and bureaucrats by classifying the vigilance enquires against them as top secret and excluding information on them from right to information though a notification.
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