In the wake of Gulf crisis, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday sought the Centre’s intervention to ensure the safety of 6.5 lakh Indians, including Keralites, residing in Qatar. Vijayan wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Vijayan said he was writing the letter[Read More…]
June 5 isn’t just a day to read about the problems affecting the countryside, it is all about action and physically getting off your chair to do something to help preserve nature. As the world celebrates the World Environment Day on Monday, Kerala government is taking a significant initiative in[Read More…]
BJP President Amit Shah, while addressing the Intellectuals and Eminent Citizens Meet in Trivandrum, Kerala, on Saturday said that the BJP party which is the only party which doesn’t aim to form a government but wants to see India reach the zenith in the world. Amit Shah arrived in Trivandrum[Read More…]
Where school application forms usually have a mandatory column for religion, two Kerala leaders have set a precedent by refusing to give a default religion to their children. As the country seems to be polarised on religious lines, these leaders give a fresh dash of hope in the younger generation.[Read More…]
In Nilambur Kerala, a temple was vandalised in an attempt to create communal tension. The perpetrator, Rajaram Mohandas, was arrested due to a timely intervention by the Kerala Police Department. Soon after the details of the incident were public, a Reddit user wrote an “open letter to all Indians from[Read More…]
#DravidaNadu has been trending on Twitter since the last two days, 50 years after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) dropped its demand for the Dravida Nadu, an independent nation comprising four southern states. #DravidaNadu was trending from Kerala, after the state refused to comply with the Centre’s decision to ban[Read More…]
Kerala Youth Congress organised a public slaughtering of an ox in Thayetheru, in Kannur district of Kerala on Saturday, protesting against the centre’s decision to ban sale and purchase of animal slaughter. The youth Congress workers raised slogans against the Centre and PM Narendra Modi before killing the cow. BJP[Read More…]
The Centre’s move to ban the sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter through animal markets has triggered severe criticism from the state of Kerala. From the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) to the opposition, all have condemned the government’s decision. “We will seek legal resort against this. The Centre[Read More…]
In what is considered a great move, Kerala has become the first Indian state to make sanitary napkin vending machines compulsory in all higher secondary schools. As only a week is left for the schools to reopen after summer vacation, the government has directed that all schools should have vending[Read More…]
The Kerala swami, who had been accused of repeated rape by a young woman in Kerala has claimed that he himself and not the girl, had cut his sexual organ as it was not ‘useful’ to him. His comments are from the statement he gave to the Kerala Police after[Read More…]
In what is considered to be a bold move, a young woman in Kerala tried to chop off the penis of a Swami, which according to her, was an act of self-defence. The parents of a 23-year-old woman were followers of a swami from an ashram at Padmana in Kollam,[Read More…]
In Kerala, a newly formed all-women organisation called Women Collective in Cinema put forward some demands to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. These demands take account of the inclusion of the film industry under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and calls for a[Read More…]
On Monday, Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy called the “murder” of 14 BJP supporters in Kerala in recent months disturbing and accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of failing to maintain law and order. The Minister, who will travel to Kerala this week to meet the family of an RSS activist[Read More…]
In Thiruvananthapuram, lakhs of bricks used by women to perform rituals for the Attukal Pongala, will be re-used to construct houses for the poor. Attukal Pongala is the most important festival of Attukal Bhagavathy Temple. The offering of Pongala is a very special temple practice in the southern part of[Read More…]
After the Supreme Court order of shifting all liquor shops lying along the National as well as state highways, there has been a notable fall in the sale of liquor in the state of Kerala. According to the figures released by the Beverages Corporation (Bevco), in the month of April,[Read More…]
After the cases of the authorities allegedly forcing a girl to remove the button of her jeans and another to remove her bra in an effort to stop cheating and irregularities during National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) exam in Kerala surfaced, many politicians across the nation has demanded probe[Read More…]
Ward number 15 of Aymanam grama panchayat in Kerala’s Kottayam has become India’s first digitalised panchayat ward. Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment Krishan Pal Gurjar inaugurated the website http://www.digitalaymanam.com at a function held at a temple premises in the village. This small panchayat ward in Kerala[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the curative petition filed by the Kerala government which sought the reinstatement of the death penalty on Govindachami, the man who was convicted of raping 23-year-old Soumya in 2011. Responding to the verdict, Soumya’s mother told media that Govindachami’s death would alone invite justice[Read More…]
After the leak of Aadhaar data of 14 lakh people in Jharkhand, the details of 35 lakh of pensioners are made public in Kerala in severe violation of the Aadhaar Act. The pensioners, whose data have been compromised, had linked their Aadhaar details and bank account as required by the[Read More…]
Malayalam actor Nivin Pauly’s latest short film, No Go Tell, directed by Jude Anthany Joseph teaches kids the difference between good touch and bad touch. The six-minute-long video creates awareness among children about the possibility of being sexually assaulted and what has to be done in such situations. In the[Read More…]
As per the results of the Malappuram bye-poll, Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator candidate PK Kunhalikutty bagged a clear win by 171,038 lakh votes. The election was held on April 12. The winning party remains ahead of the closest opposition the Communist Party[Read More…]