Bharat Express

Kerala Assembly

The devastating landslide that struck Wayanad on July 30 has prompted mounting calls for the event to be declared a national disaster.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan proposed the resolution and urged the central government to alter the name of the state to "Keralam" in all languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.

Senior legislator and former home minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan was pushed, and MLA K K Rema's hand was twisted and dragged on the floor by four-five women marshals, they alleged.

A day after state Finance Minister K N Balagopal refused to withdraw the budget proposals, the Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly, V D Satheesan, led the foot march...