Thiruvananthapuram: Efforts to resolve the standoff between the Kerala government and the Governor over Vice-Chancellor (VC) appointments collapsed after high-level talks in Thiruvananthapuram, pushing the issue closer to judicial intervention.

Kerala Law Minister P Rajeev and Higher Education Minister R Bindu met Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar at Lok Bhavan on Wednesday to reach a consensus on VC appointments to APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) and Kerala University of Digital Sciences (DUK). The meeting lasted for over an hour but ended without agreement.

The talks were held a day before the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court of India, which had directed both sides to jointly select candidates from a panel prepared by a court-appointed committee led by a ret

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