Manjeri News

The Muslim Youth League staged a protest at Manjeri Medical College Hospital on Saturday. They condemned police action against temporary employees charged for protesting during Health Minister Veena George’s recent visit. Several protesters were arrested after raising slogans against the Minister and the hospital principal. The case against the employees was filed after their protest allegedly caused a commotion and posed a risk of unrest. It followed a complaint from Medical College Principal Dr K K Anil Raj, who named identifiable contract employees working under the HDIC. The incident took place on Tuesday when the Minister arrived to inaugurate new projects at the hospital. Nurses, nursing assistants, X-ray technicians, cleaning staff and other temporary workers directly approached the minister to complain about not receiving their salaries for two months.

The counting of votes polled for the 1,199 local bodies for which elections were held in two phases in Kerala began at 8 am. Initially, the postal ballots were counted and then the EVM votes were taken up. Initial trends shared by the State Election Commission (SEC) showed the ruling LDF, the opposition UDF and the NDA leading in various grama panchayat, block panchayat, municipality and corporation wards.Counting is being carried out in 244 centres and 14 district collectorates. There were some issues at a few counting centres, including Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad and Vadakara, over giving entry to booth agents and candidates. The results are expected to decide the future course of campaigning of the political parties and fronts in the state for the assembly elections in Kerala in 2026. The oath taking of elected panchayat members and municipal councillors will be held on December 21 at 10 am. Oath taking of corporation councillors will be held on December 21 at 11 am.

When Kerala’s Malabar region began showing the first signs of a post-remittance economy—Gulf incomes plateauing, diaspora priorities shifting, and local ambitions rising—few expected its next chapter to be written in a small town called Manjeri. And even fewer imagined the architect of that shift would be a former Texas gas-station operator who went on to build a billion-dollar fintech infrastructure in the United States.The Texan Malayali Entrepreneur Reshaping Malabar’s Economic Landscape. Sabeer built Zil Money in the U.S. after early years of running gas stations across Texas. Those years taught him the discipline of operating in high-volume environments and the frustration of dealing with fragmented financial systems. That combination—rigor, clarity of purpose, and an instinct for practical reinvention—ultimately shaped both his fintech platform and his worldview on development.