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Kerala Council of Ministers
Kerala Council of Ministers (മന്ത്രിസഭ), the executive body of the Government of Kerala headed by Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan since May 2026: 21 UDF ministers under Articles 163-164, capped at 15 percent of the Assembly, with Congress core portfolios and IUML holding five.
Kerala Crime Files
Kerala Crime Files (കേരള ക്രൈം ഫയൽസ്) is a Malayalam crime thriller web series, Disney+ Hotstar's first Malayalam original, directed by Ahammed Khabeer, starring Aju Varghese and Lal; Season 1 premiered June 23, 2023, Season 2 on JioHotstar June 20, 2025.
Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court, formally the High Court of Kerala, is the High Court of the Indian state of Kerala, seated at Kochi and established in 1956.
Kerala Legislative Assembly (കേരള നിയമസഭ)
The Kerala Legislative Assembly (കേരള നിയമസഭ) is Kerala's 140-member unicameral state legislature, first constituted in 1957; women have never exceeded 10% of its members, with 11 women in the 16th Assembly sworn in May 2026.
Kerala model
Kerala model: development pattern named after Kerala, India (term from the 1975 CDS/UN study led by K. N. Raj). High literacy, life expectancy, and health at low income via land reform, public healthcare, and education, with criticized fiscal and industrial limits.
Kerala Motor Vehicles Department
Kerala Motor Vehicles Department (MVD): Kerala state agency, formed 1958, enforcing the Motor Vehicles Act 1988; handles registration, licenses, permits, road tax, and enforcement via VAHAN, SARATHI, and Virtual Check Post systems.
Kerala Paniniyam
Kerala Paniniyam (കേരളപാണിനീയം) is a treatise on Malayalam grammar and rhetoric by A. R. Rajaraja Varma, known as Kerala Panini, and a foundational reference for Malayalam grammatical study.
Kerala Police (കേരള പോലീസ്)
Kerala Police (കേരള പോലീസ്) is the state police force of Kerala, India, formed in 1956, headquartered in Thiruvananthapuram, headed by DGP Ravada Azad Chandra Sekhar, with 19 police districts, ERSS 112, and the 2026 Operation Toofan anti-narcotics drive.
Kerala Public Service Commission (കേരള പബ്ലിക് സർവീസ് കമ്മീഷൻ)
Kerala Public Service Commission (കേരള പബ്ലിക് സർവീസ് കമ്മീഷൻ), KPSC, is Kerala's constitutional recruitment body under Article 320, headquartered at Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram, formed 1956 from the Travancore-Cochin PSC; it recruited 18,964 candidates in late 2023 and faced a 2026 exam-valuation probe.
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി) is an annual literary prize given by the state literary academy in Thrissur for the best Malayalam books, first awarded in 1958 to Uroob's Ummachu.
Kerala Sahitya Charitram
Kerala Sahitya Charitram (കേരള സാഹിത്യ ചരിത്രം, History of Kerala Literature) is a five-volume history of Malayalam literature by the poet Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, published by the University of Kerala between 1953 and 1957.
Kerala School Kalolsavam (കേരള സ്കൂൾ കലോത്സവം)
Kerala School Kalolsavam (കേരള സ്കൂൾ കലോത്സവം), also called State School Youth Festival, is Kerala's annual school arts festival run by the General Education Department from school to state level since 1957, described as Asia's largest school youth festival.
Kerala State Electricity Board
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is the government-owned power utility of Kerala, India, established in 1957 and restructured as Kerala State Electricity Board Limited in 2014.
Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor
Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor: annual Government of Kerala acting honor for Malayalam cinema, first given in 1969 to Sathyan for Kadalpalam; Mammootty holds the record with seven wins, most recently for Bramayugam.
Kerala State Film Awards
Kerala State Film Awards: annual Government of Kerala honors for Malayalam cinema, begun 1969, run since 1998 by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy; jury-selected, includes J.C. Daniel lifetime award; 55th edition (2024) won by Manjummel Boys.
Kerala State Lotteries
Kerala State Lotteries, the Kerala government paper lottery run by the Directorate of State Lotteries since 1 September 1967, first in India; seven weekly and six bumper draws, Rs 12,530 crore revenue in 2023-24, agent-only offline sales.
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (കേരള സംസ്ഥാന റോഡ് ട്രാൻസ്പോർട്ട് കോർപ്പറേഷൻ)
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation, also known as Kerala RTC, is the state-owned corporation operating scheduled bus services across Kerala, India, with roots in a 1938 Travancore transport service.
Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies
Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Kochi, established 2010 by delinking from Kerala Agricultural University; India's first state fisheries university, Panangad campus, BFSc flagship, NAAC A grade, NIRF Agriculture #31 (2025).
Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran
Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran (കേരളവർമ്മ വലിയ കോയിത്തമ്പുരാൻ; 1845–1914) was a poet, Sanskrit scholar, and member of the Travancore royal household, consort of Rani Lakshmi Bayi.
Kerala-no-dhoro
Kerala-no-dhoro is a Harappan archaeological site at Padri village, Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India, excavated from 1990 to 1996 and interpreted as a coastal salt processing and trading center.
Keralolpathi
Keralolpathi (കേരളോല്പത്തി), literally "the origin of Kerala," is a Malayalam prose chronicle of legends about Kerala's origins, existing in multiple palm-leaf manuscript tellings and printed by Hermann Gundert in 1843.
Keralolpatti
Keralolpatti (കേരളോൽപ്പത്തി), "The Origin of Kerala," is a Malayalam chronicle tradition narrating Kerala's legendary origin, its Perumal kings, and the land's partition among the Zamorin and local chiefs.
Kerama Ridges
Kerama Ridges, an undersea ridge in the Kerama Gap southwest of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Arc, Philippine Sea; GEBCO gazetteer feature, 75 x 90 km, relief 3,010 m, discovered 1997 by survey vessel Takuyo.
Kerameikos (Κεραμεικός)
Kerameikos (Κεραμεικός), the potters' quarter and principal cemetery of ancient Athens on the Eridanos river, with the Dipylon and Sacred Gate, the Demosion Sema public graveyard, and the 1938 Kerameikos Archaeological Museum.
Kerameis
Kerameis (Κεραμεῖς) was an Athenian deme of the phyle Akamantis, named after its potters on the Eridanos river near the Dipylon and Sacred Gates; it gave its name to the Kerameikos district and cemetery.
Kerang Wetlands
Kerang Wetlands, a Ramsar site (no. 265) of 23 lakes, marshes and swamps near Kerang, Victoria, listed 15 December 1982, 9,784 ha, supporting over 20,000 waterbirds and threatened species.
Keras
Keras is an open-source deep learning API written in Python, created by François Chollet at Google and first released in 2015; it runs on JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
Keratan sulfate
Keratan sulfate is a sulfated glycosaminoglycan with no uronic acid, first identified in the cornea in 1939, where it helps maintain transparency and serves as a disease marker.
Keratectomy
Keratectomy is a corneal surgical procedure that removes corneal tissue to correct refractive error or treat anterior corneal disease, including laser forms PRK and PTK.
Keratin
Keratin: family of fibrous intermediate-filament proteins of epithelia, hair, nails, horns, and feathers. 54 functional human genes in type I (acidic) and type II (basic) classes that obligately pair into 10–12 nm heteropolymer filaments; mutations cause epidermolysis bullosa simplex.