Fishermen in Rameshwaram have declared to go on an indefinite hunger strike against the government ban on fishing for 45 days from mid-April which will continue throughout the month of May exclusively during the fish breeding season. Notably, this ban is enforced to safeguard the fishes during their breeding season[Read More…]
A 22-year-old youth, who was allegedly subjected to moral policing by a group of men at Azheekel beach, was found dead at his house at Attapady in the district, police said. Aneesh (22) was found hanging from a tree behind his house late last evening, they said. Aneesh and his[Read More…]
Kerala government will launch a registry of sex offenders, the first of its kind in the country, Governor Justice (Retd) P Sathasivam said in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. “It will be the first in the country,” he added. The registry will contain all identification details of sex offenders and would be[Read More…]
Pulsar Suni, the prime accused in the kidnap and alleged molestation of a famous Malayalam actor, was arrested by Kerala Police as he tried to surrender to the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) of Ernakulam. Another accused in the case, Vijeesh, also surrendered to the ACJM. According to multiple media[Read More…]
A major fire broke out on the active SM Street in Kozhikode, a coastal city in the south Indian state of Kerala on Wednesday. As per the police, the fire broke out at a Modern textile shop near Radha theater in the street at around 11 am. Soon after the[Read More…]
Days after the widespread criticism of the deteriorating law and order condition, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan directed the state’s 14 District Collectors to ensure the arrest of 2,010 goons listed by the intelligence wing in 30 days time. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) have demanded that Vijayan should[Read More…]
In another dreadful incident, a BJP worker was allegedly hacked to death in Kerala’s Thrissur district late on Sunday. As per a report in CNN News18, a BJP worker called Nirmal was stabbed to death following a battle during celebrations at a temple in Mukkattukara. The BJP state unit has[Read More…]
A Young man who went to Thiruvanthapuram University College to watch a play alleged that he was beaten up by a group of Students Federation of India (SFI) activists for sitting with girls. Jijesh, the complainant, had gone to the campus for a drama festival along with two students studying[Read More…]
E Ahamed, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) president and former Union minister who died at RML hospital in Delhi early Wednesday was a political stalwart and a skilled diplomat who played pivotal role in India’s diplomatic relation with middle-eastern countries. Ahamed, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly for 18 years[Read More…]
Police on Monday filed a case against celebrity chef and Kerala Law Academy principal Lakshmi Nair on charges of making casteist remarks on Dalit students of the institution. Nair had been at the centre of a campus agitation for the past 20 days, with students demanding her resignation. Police said[Read More…]
A day after a bomb was thrown at the venue of a public meeting addressed by CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in Kerala, the communist party on Friday alleged that it was at the receiving end of violence by Sangh Parivar organisations, contrary to the BJP claim. “This attack by[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram city Corporation plans on implementing complete ban on the sale of plastics by February 2017. Earlier the city had tried limiting the sale of plastics by banning plastic bags with a thickness below 50 microns. As per a News Minute report, on Friday, Thiruvananthapuram Mayor VV Prakash told media[Read More…]
Malayalam Writer Kamal C Chavara, who symbolically cremated his novel in protest against the jingoist nationalism, has alleged he was attacked by a Sangh Parivar activist on Sunday in Kunnamangalam near Calicut in Kerala. Chavara said the attacker approached him and asked whether he was the one who had burnt[Read More…]
Echoing the Perumal Murugan episode from Tamil Nadu in 2015, Malayalam novelist Kamal C Chavara has decided to withdraw his book and burn it in front of the public in Calicut’s Kidson corner on Saturday evening at around 4 pm. Kamal C Chavara, who hails from CPI(M) ruling state, was[Read More…]
Sashi G was an ordinary 59-year-old coconut climber, who is partially paralysed. Sashi was bed-ridden after a fall from a coconut tree 18 years ago in Thiruvananthapuram. Over the years, his right arm and leg were left paralysed and he could walk only slowly. His house was in the rural[Read More…]
The suicide of an 18-year old student on Friday, following the harrasements by the college authorities, has created a wide spread outrage in Kerala. On Friday evening, Jishnu Pranoy, a first year student of Nehru College of Engineering and Research in Thrissur, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the[Read More…]
In a video uploaded on social media sites, Indian priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted from Yemen, was seen begging for life, a day after Christmas. Uzhunnalil was abducted from the port city of Aden, on March 4, by militant group ISIS. The priest appears very weak and at[Read More…]
