Top news developments in Kerala today
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Key news developments from Kerala on December 19, 2022
Here are the key news developments in Kerala to watch out for today:
1. Kerala State conference of CITU concludes today at Kozhikode. New State functionaries to be chosen, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will address a public gathering in the evening.
2. Booker Prize winner writer Geetanjali Shree to attend various events in Kozhikode today. This is her first visit to Kerala after winning the prize.
3. Farmers launch protest in the rural areas of Kozhikode against the newly released satellite survey report on the buffer zone around protected areas.
4. A suo motu contempt of court case initiated against the Popular Front of India and its state secretary A. Abdul Sathar for holding a flash strike on September 23 is likely to come up for hearing in the Kerala High Court today.
5. VP Zuhra, president of Muslim women’s forum NISA to explain the organisation’s stand on Muslim women’s property rights in Kozhikode today.
6. The Opposition councillors in the Kozhikode Corporation council will stage a protest before the Corporation office today in connection with the alleged attack against them in the council hall by LDF councillors while they were protesting against the funds embezzlement issue.
Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten stated that “not so great decision making” contributed to his side’s defeat to India in the Group-A T20 World Cup clash here on Sunday. The batting unit came apart in the chase, after being well placed at 72 for two. With 48 runs needed from eight overs, Pakistan found a way to panic and lose. “Maybe not so great decision making,” Kirsten said at the post-match press conference, when asked to explain the loss.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.