Month: September 2025

The State government’s intensive campaign aimed at mitigating human-wildlife conflict elicited nearly 18,000 petitions, collected from across Kerala during its initial phase. The complaints pertain to nine categories including wildlife conflict mitigation, compensation, tree cutting in plantation lands, and land-related issues. In a statement, Forests Minister A.K. Saseendran said that two review meetings were held […]

Printu Mahadevan, former State president of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) teachers’ cell State convener, who made a death threat to Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during a television debate, surrendered before the police on Tuesday evening. The Kunnamkulam Judicial First Class Magistrate later granted […]

Ajin Elias , a native of Angamaly, and 13-year-old Avani Krishna, a native of Kollam, who underwent heart transplants at Lisie Hospital in Kochi, were discharged on Tuesday (September 30, 2025). The heart of Kottarakkara native Isaac George, 33, beats in Ajin, and the heart of Angamaly native Biljith, 18, beats in Avani. Both the […]

As many as 4,601 people have been trained in CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) in the district so far under the State government’s project ‘Hridayapoorvam’, a campaign aimed at saving lives and reducing cardiac mortality rates. The training was conducted with the support of members of the district’s Rapid Action Force, trained health workers, the Kerala Government […]

Augmentative and alternative communication devices were distributed to 30 children with communication difficulties at a programme organised by the Kerala Rehabilitation Institute for the Physically Affected and Alpha Paediatric Rehabilitation and Child Development Centre on Tuesday (September 30, 2025). The programme was organised ahead of World Cerebral Palsy Day which falls on October 6. Published […]

A man from Rajasthan was arrested by the Thadiyittaparambu police for his alleged involvement in a cyber fraud in which an expatriate from Vazahakulam lost ₹27 lakh. Lakshaman Lal Kumavath, 27, was arrested from a village in Gujarat, the police said. According to the police, a gang led by the accused befriended the Vazhakulam native […]

Oil sardines had witnessed a steep decline, from a record catch of four lakh tonnes in 2012 to just 3,500 tonnes in 2021. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Monsoon rainfall trends caused the sudden surge of juvenile Indian oil sardines along Kerala’s coast in 2024 and the subsequent ecological and economic fallout, according to a […]

Kerala has emerged as a leader in chargesheeting rates for criminal cases but is also witnessing an alarming spike in suicides, according to the data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2023. According to the Crime in India 2023 report, the State has reported the highest chargesheeting rate under Indian Penal Code (IPC) […]

Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSCPB) has claimed that only two of the 20 bonemeal units, chicken waste rendering plants, and rubber processing units in the Edayar industrial area were left to comply with the directives issued to check uncotrolled emission into the atmosphere. These 20 units were served closure or closure-intention notices for violation […]

Congress workers staging a road blockade at Irumpupalam near Adimaly on Tuesday over disruption of road widening works on the Neryamangalam-Valara stretch of the Kochi-Dhanushkodi National Highway | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT With another local body election around the corner, the disruption of road widening works on the Neryamangalam-Valara stretch of the Kochi-Dhanushkodi National Highway […]