Oommen Chandy is an Indian statesman and senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. He served as the Chief Minister of Kerala for two terms, from 2004 to 2006 and again from 2011 to 2016. He was also Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011. He has represented Puthuppally as MLA in the State Assembly since 1970.
On 6 June 2018 Congress President Rahul Gandhi appointed him as General Secretary of All India Congress Committee in charge of the crucial state of Andhra Pradesh. He is now the Congress Working Committee member.
The Church Missionary Society College High School is situated in Kottayam, Kerala, India.
Mar Thoma I, also known as "Valiya Mar Thoma", is the first native democratically elected/selected Metropolitan bishop of the St Thomas Christians or Malankara Church. He was the last Archdeacon of the undivided St.Thomas Christians of Malabar. After the death of Archdeacon George of the Cross(കുരിശിങ്ങൽ ജോർജ്)( Kurisingal being his house name), on 25 July 1640, Parambil Thoma kathanar was elected and enthroned as new Archdeacon, when he was less than 30 years old. He led the Church to the Coonan Cross Oath on 3 January 1653 and to the subsequent schism in Saint Thomas Christians Church. After the Coonen Cross Oath, he was elected as a Bishop by Malankara (Yogam) Association and consecrated as a Bishop at St. Mary's Church Alangad, by laying hands of 12 priests on 22 May 1653. Only two Southist churches of Kaduthuruthy and Udayamperoor and a very few people elsewhere refused to recognise him as Bishop. Any how, the archdeacon began to exercise powers of episcopal order, though he openly tried to regularize his episcopal consecration as a Bishop from the Church of Antioch. His episcopal consecration as a Bishop was regularized in the year 1665 by Mar Gregorios Abdal Jaleel the Patriarchal delegate of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.(The exact date and place of this event is anonymous).
Kanianthra Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989. He also served as Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology.
Runway (Malayalam : റൺവേ)is a 2004 Indian Malayalam-language crime film written by Udayakrishna and Siby K. Thomas and directed by Joshiy. It stars Dileep, Indrajith Sukumaran, Murali, Kavya Madhavan and Harisree Ashokan.
Potassium intermediate/small conductance calcium-activated channel, subfamily N, member 4, also known as KCNN4, is a human gene encoding the KCa3.1 protein.
Potassium voltage-gated channel, shaker-related subfamily, member 3, also known as KCNA3 or Kv1.3, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA3 gene.
Justice Anna Chandy (1905-1996), also known as Anna Chandi, was the first female judge in India. She was also the first woman in India to become a High Court judge. In fact, she was the first woman judge in the Anglo-Saxon world, decades before Elizabeth Lane.
Kerala Congress (B) is a registered-unrecognized political party in Kerala, formed by R. Balakrishna Pillai, a former minister of the government of Kerala. At present, the party has one MLA in the state Legislative Assembly, namely K. B. Ganesh Kumar, a well-known film actor and son of R. Balakrishna Pillai, who has been representing the Pathanapuram constituency in Kollam District since 2001. The Kerala Congress (B) was a constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) until 2016 and is now part of Left Democratic Front. K B Ganesh Kumar served as a minister in the UDF government led by Oommen Chandy beginning May 18, 2011 until his resignation on April 1, 2013.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee is the state unit of the Indian National Congress — one of the world's largest political organizations — working in the state of Kerala. Its head office is situated at Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram). It first met in 1921 at Ottapalam, the banks of the River Bharathappuzha. Mullappally Ramachandran is the current president of k.p.c.c. Ramesh Chennithala is the current parliamentary party leader.
Following is the list of 20 government ministers serving under Oommen Chandy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Kerala, from August 2004 through May 2006.
Aryadan Muhammed is a veteran Indian National Congress party leader and the former Minister for Electricity and Transport in the Oommen Chandy Ministry. He represented the Nilambur constituency in Kerala after winning in the 2011 State Election.
Dr. M. K. Muneer is a politician, doctor, social worker, singer, poet and author from Kerala. He was the Minister for Social Welfare and Panchayat in the last UDF Ministry of the South Indian state of Kerala, headed by Oommen Chandy and represents the Kozhikode South constituency in the legislative assembly. He was also the Minister for Public Works in both A K Antony Ministry 3 and the previous Oommen Chandy Ministry. Muneer is a State secretary of the Indian Union Muslim League and was the Chairman of the Malayalam TV channel Indiavision. He is a known singer and writer, who has written ghazals and books including Fascism and the Sangh Parivar. He is a qualified medical doctor and patron of MCC-THAS-Haemophilia Society. He did his MBBS in Bangalore Medical college in Karnataka, with a special order by the Government of Kerala post his father's death, he was allowed a transfer to Government Medical College, Kozhikode and eventually completed his course from there.
Oru Maravathoor Kanavu is a 1998 Malayalam comedy-drama musical film directed by Lal Jose and written by Sreenivasan. It stars Mammootty, Biju Menon, Mohini, Divya Unni, Sreenivasan, Kalabhavan Mani, Sukumari and Nedumudi Venu. The music was composed by Vidyasagar.
Kizhakkayil Mathew Chandy is the ex-governor of the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
Kizhakkan Pathrose (Malayalam: is a 1992 Malayalam film directed by T. S. Suresh Babu, starring Mammootty in the title role.
Thomas Chandy is the Member of Legislative Assembly from Kuttanad,Kerala,India. He was the transport minister of the state of Kerala representing the Kuttanad constituency and a prominent business man based in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He resigned from his minister's office on 15 November 2017 due to an allegation regarding his resort in Alappuzha. The allegation raised were not proved but Mr Chandy voluntarily gave his resignation from his office as minister of state following the allegation. Mr Chandy is also the state president of the Nationalist Congress Party in Kerala.
Jacob Chandy was an Indian neurosurgeon and teacher of medical sciences. As the first neurosurgeon in India, he is widely regarded as the father of modern neurosurgery in India. In 1964, the Government of India honoured him with their third highest civilian award, Padmabhushan, for his services in the fields of neurosurgery and medical education.
Baldev Singh was an Indian neurologist. He was best known for collaborative works with neurologists Jacob Chandy, Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi and S. T. Narasimhan and together they have been credited to be pioneers in development of epilepsy surgery in India. They also helped in establishing the Neurological Society of India in 1951 at Madras. After training in the United States of America, he returned to India and established himself at Delhi. He was presented with the Padma Bhushan in 1972 for his contributions in the field of medicine.
