India, Dec. 18 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ended months of uncertainty over the appointment of vice-chancellors (VCs) to two state universities in Kerala, expressing hope that future deadlocks between constitutional authorities - the Kerala governor and chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan - would be resolved through dialogue in the larger national interest.

A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan, hearing a petition filed by Kerala governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar over the stalemate on the appointment of VCs for APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology, said that in the "crossfire", it is the students, teachers and parents who ultimately get impacted. ...