2018 in Kerala
List of events
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Events in the year 2018 in Kerala.
Incumbents
Events
January - March
- 12 January - First edition of Loka Kerala Sabha held at Thiruvananthapuram.
- 13 January - Jayamol a lady from Kollam Killed her son by strangling
- 19 January - State Transport Commissioner issues orders for implementing uniform colour code for private stage carriage buses in Kerala from 1 February.[1]
- 31 January - Sreejith a youth from Parassala ends his 782 days long solitary protest in front of Kerala Government Secretariat following Central Bureau of Investigation probe in his brother Sreejev's custodial death in 2014.[2]
- 22 February - Madhu, a 30 year old Adivasi man from Attappadi died following mob lynching at Palakkad district.[3]
- 8 March - Supreme Court of India set asides Kerala High Court verdict in Hadiya case.
- 22 March - A college student from Erumely named Jesna Maria James goes missing.[4]
April - June
- 1 April - Kerala football team defeats West Bengal in Santosh Trophy Final held at Salt Lake Stadium through Penalty shootout.[5]
- 2 May - Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala at Perambra.[6]
- 27 May - Kevin, a 23 year old Dalit Christian from Kottayam district was abducted and murdered in an act of Honor killing for marrying a girl named Neenu Chacko from an affluent Christian family.[7]
- 29 May - Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kummanam Rajasekharan becomes Governor of Mizoram.
- 27 June - Several key members of Women in Cinema Collective resigned from Association of Malayalam Movie Artists following their decision to bring back rape accused Dileep back to the association.[8]
July - September
- 2 July - A student of Maharaja's College, Ernakulam and Students' Federation of India activist Abhimanyu stabbed to death by Campus Front of India activists inside college campus.[9]
- 16 August - 2018 Kerala floods the largest flood after Great flood of 99 occurred.
- 8 September - A group of Nun protests at Kochi against attempt by Kerala Police and Catholic Church to protect rape accused bishop Franco Mulakkal.[10]
- 21 September - Bishop Franco Mulakkal arrested following rape allegations.[11]
- 28 September - Sabarimala verdict by Supreme Court of India allows entry of women to the temple.[12]
October - December
- 31 October - Massive fire in Family Plastics factory at Thiruvananthapuram.[13]
- 1 November - Save Alappad protests against mining of rare earths and ensuing coastal degradation of Alappad started.[14]
- 5 November - Sanalkumar, a 32 year old electrician from Neyyattinkara was killed after being pushed by Deputy superintendent of police Neyyattinkara in front of a moving vehicle following an altercation.[15]
- 8 November - Protests in Kayamkulam by Jacobite Church members following denial of burial of a 95 year old man at a church controlled by Malankara Orthodox faction.[16]
- 13 November - Deputy superintendent of police Neyyattinkara, Harikumar the key accused in Sanalkumar murder case committed suicide in his house at Kallambalam.[17]
- 15 November - Kerala State Road Transport Corporation launched 10 Electric buses and becomes the first South Indian state to roll out Electric vehicles for Road Transport Corporations.[18]
Deaths
- 2 May - Kottayam Pushpanath, 80, writer.
- 13 May - E. C. George Sudarshan, 86, theoretical physicist.
- 8 July - M. M. Jacob, 91, Former governor of Meghalaya.
- 2 October - Balabhaskar, 40, violinist.[19]
- 19 December - Athippatta Moideen Kutty Musliyar Islamic scholar.[20][21]
- 31 December - Simon Britto Rodrigues, 64, politician.
