# 2018 in Kerala

Events in the year 2018 in Kerala.

## Incumbents

Governors of Kerala - P. Sathasivam
Chief ministers of Kerala - Pinarayi Vijayan

## Events
### January - March

* January 12 - First edition of Loka Kerala Sabha held at Thiruvananthapuram.
* January 13 - Jayamol a lady from Kollam Killed her son by strangling
* January 31 - 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.
* February 22 - Madhu, a 30 year old Adivasi man from Attappadi died following mob lynching at Palakkad district.
* March 8 - Supreme Court of India set asides Kerala High Court verdict in Hadiya case.
* March 22 - A college student from Erumely named Jesna Maria James goes missing.

### April - June

* April 1 - Kerala football team defeats West Bengal in Santosh Trophy Final held at Salt Lake Stadium through Penalty shootout.
* May 2 - Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala at Perambra.
* May 27 - 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.
* May 29 - Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kummanam Rajasekharan becomes Governor of Mizoram.
* June 27 - 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.

### July - September

* July 2 - 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.
* August 16 - 2018 Kerala floods the largest flood after Great flood of 99 occurred.
* September 8 - A group of Nun protests at Kochi against attempt by Kerala Police and Catholic Church to protect rape accused bishop Franco Mulakkal.
* September 28 - Sabarimala verdict by Supreme Court of India allows entry of women to the temple.

### October - December

* October 31 - Massive fire
* November 1 - Save Alappad protests against mining of rare earths and ensuing coastal degradation of Alappad started.
* November 5 - 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.
* November 8 - 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.
* November 13 - Deputy superintendent of police Neyyattinkara, Harikumar the key accused in Sanalkumar murder case committed suicide in his house at Kallambalam.
* November 15 - 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.

## Deaths

* May 2 - Kottayam Pushpanath, 80, writer.
* May 13 - E. C. George Sudarshan, 86, theoretical physicist.
* July 8 - M. M. Jacob, 91, Former governor of Meghalaya.
* October 2 - Balabhaskar, 40, violinist.
* December 19 - Athippatta Moideen Kutty Musliyar Islamic scholar.
* December 31 - Simon Britto Rodrigues, 64, politician.