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Controversy erupted in Kerala after the CPI(M)-led LDF government Friday submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court claiming 51 women in menstrual age entered the Sabarimala temple.

Protests broke out at Neelimala in Kerala on Wednesday morning after two women aged below 50 began trekking up the hill to visit the Sabarimala temple.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed the CPI(M)-led LDF government in Kerala and Congress-led UDF opposition over the Sabarimala women entry issue and said both fronts were two sides of the same coin.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially declared open the much-awaited Kollam bypass on National Highway-66 here on Tuesday. The 13-km-long, two-lane bypass,

Coming February, Kerala will be ready to welcome marketing, advertising and media professionals. As this year, the International Advertising Association (IAA) will be hosting.

India got its largest startup ecosystem on Sunday when Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated here a 1.8-lakh-square-feet facility housing incubation set-ups across a string of segments in modern technology.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who had earlier argued that all women should be allowed to enter the Sabarimala temple, on Saturday said he cannot take an “open-and-shut” position.

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan briefed Governor P Sathasivam on the law and order situation in state after violence erupted in region following the entry of two women of menstruating age inside the premises of Sabarimala temple on January 2.

Parts of Kerala continued to be in disarray Wednesday with trains blocked and a SBI branch vandalised while in Karnataka an effigy of the Prime Minister was burnt but rest of the south was largely peaceful on the second day of the two-day nationwide stir.

A nun, who published poems, bought a car and took part in a protest against former bishop of Jalandhar diocese in connection with a rape case, has been issued notice by her congregation based in Aluva near here, for leading a life ‘against principles of religious life’.