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The Kerala State film Awards ceremony has been postponed due to the red alert issued for heavy rain in Thiruvananthapuram. Kerala Culture Minister VN Vasavan informed about the postponement of the 52nd State Film Awards ceremony in a Facebook post. The minister mentioned that the award distribution ceremony has been postponed due to the red alert issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) for eight districts of the state. The minister said that the revised date for the ceremony will be announced soon. “Due to the red alert that has been imposed in districts including Thiruvananthapuram, the Kerala State Film Award ceremony that was scheduled to be held at the Nishagandhi theatre has been postponed. The revised date will be announced soon,” Vasavan said in his Facebook post. Here is the full list of the awardees for the 52nd Kerala State Films Awards: Best Director – Dileesh Pothan (Joji) Best Story – Shahi Kabir (Nayattu) Best Screenplay (Original) – Krishand … [Read more...] about 52nd Kerala State Film Awards Ceremony Postponed

(The Political Line newsletter is India’s political landscape explained every week by Varghese K. George, senior editor at The Hindu . You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox every Friday.) SC ruling on money-laundering The Supreme Court of India has upheld the validity of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) that gives sweeping powers to the Enforcement Directorate, leaves the accused with no bail, forces them to self-incriminate, and shifts the burden of proof to the accused. The ED is frequently using PMLA against political opponents of the ruling BJP, but the Court agreed with the government’s reasoning that the Act came out of an international commitment. Justice A.M. Khanwilkar wrote the judgment for the Special Bench that also included Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C.T. Ravikumar. The judiciary is the last resort of the citizen to seek protection from the highhandedness that the executive often displays, and the PMLA has been a strong and … [Read more...] about Political Line | Foreign hand, domestic rights in PMLA, FCRA judgments

A meeting of Malankara Syrian Christian Association held at Pathanamapuram on Thursday elected Ronnie Varghese Abraham as new lay trustee and Thomas Varghese Amayil as clergy trustee of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. While Fr.Thomas Varghese defeated M.O.John, Mr.Abraham defeated C A. George Mathai Nooranalil. As many as 4,203 members, including 1,381 priests, attended the event. Ronnie Varghese Abraham The association meeting formally began with special prayers at the Mount Tabore Dayara here in the morning. Later, Baselios Marthoma Mathews III, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, was accorded a reception to the venue. The Catholicos was followed by other Metropolitans and members of the outgoing managing committee. Calling the meeting into order, the Catholicos urged the participants to help victims of natural calamities and to convert the barren places of the church’s ashrams and institutions into agricultural farms. The Catholicos also extended … [Read more...] about Orthodox Church gets new laity and clergy trustees

A fashionable school of soundbite intellectualism seeks to reduce the outcome of the election to the 17th Lok Sabha into the success of one individual and the failure of another. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s oratory, marketing, cunning, etc. and the massive funds available to him were factors in his success while Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s untrained oratory and ineffective command over the limited human and material resources under him were factors in his defeat. But the Modi-Gandhi binary is ahistorical, as 2019 has been in the making for a century — the advance of Hindutva through meticulous organisation building and ideological training, and a corresponding retreat of the Congress on both counts. The contest between the themes, Mr. Gandhi’s ‘love all’ and Mr. Modi’s ‘I will hit you at home’, could not have been timed worse for the former historically, though this slogan was never an irresistible one. That creed cost Mahatma Gandhi his life; ‘death to Gandhi’ was a slogan of … [Read more...] about The idea of Congress-free India