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The administration in Lakshadweep on Monday appealed to the Kerala High Court to lift the interim pause on the implementation of a ban on meat items from midday meals in schools and shutting down dairy farms in the Union Territory, reported The Indian Express.On June 22, the Kerala High ...

Filmmaker Aisha Sultana on Monday approached the Kerala High Court seeking anticipatory bail plea in a sedition case filed against her in Lakshadweep, reported the Hindustan Times.On June 10, the police booked Sultana for saying that the Centre was using the Union Territory’s administrator Praful Khoda Patel as a ...

Several Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and workers in Lakshadweep on Friday resigned in protest against the sedition case filed against filmmaker Aisha Sultana, NDTV reported.During a debate on a Malayalam news channel, Sultana had blamed administrator Praful Khoda Patel for the surge in coronavirus cases in the Union Territory. ...

Residents of Lakshadweep on Monday held a 12-hour-long hunger strike and staged demonstrations at beaches and their homes in protest against a set of proposed regulations, reported the Hindustan Times.A slew of regulations introduced by administrator Praful Khoda Patel has triggered a massive outcry among the residents of the ...

Nationalist Congress Party leader and Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal on Monday said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah had assured him that local representatives will be consulted before the draft laws are implemented in the Union Territory, reported PTI.The Union Territory’s Administrator Praful Khoda Patel, a Bharatiya Janata Party ...

Amid criticism of a slew of measures taken by the Lakshadweep administration in the past few months, the island’s Collector S Asker Ali on Thursday alleged a “misinformation campaign”, The Indian Express reported.“Outside Lakshadweep, people are protesting with vested interests and propaganda,” Ali said, while speaking to reporters in ...

Lakshadweep administrator and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Praful Khoda Patel on Thursday defended the tourism projects in the Union Territory and the new preventive detention law, saying that these were efforts to develop the region and help its residents, reported The Hindu.Patel has introduced a slew of regulations in ...