NEW DLEHI: Massive landslides have struck various hilly areas near Meppadi in Wayanad district, Kerala, early on Tuesday, causing concerns that hundreds may be trapped. The Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) has deployed Fireforce and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams to the affected areas, with an additional NDRF team on its way to…
NEW DELHI: Even as the world grapples with the challenge of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), instances of which have been reported sporadically from countries using the oral polio vaccine, including India, a case has been reported from Kerala where the VDPV was transmitted from an immune-deficient child to his healthy father.The discovery was made during an…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the central government and the secretaries to the governors of West Bengal and Kerala regarding separate petitions filed by the two state governments. The petition challenges the decisions of their governors to keep several bills pending for an extended period, withhold assent, or reserve them…
NEW DELHI: The Economic Survey has questioned the conclusions that higher work generation and fund use under the job scheme implies rural distress, arguing that if it was so, then poorer states with higher unemployment should be leading the performance in MGNREGA as against the fact that richer states have a better record of tapping…
NEW DELHI: Justice S VN Bhatti, a Supreme Court judge on Monday while hearing a court batting for ‘hygiene at eateries‘ talked about his personal experience of regularly visiting a vegetarian restaurant owned by a Muslim in Kerala as it maintained international standards.The remarks were made when Justice Bhatti and Justice Hrishikesh Roy, were on…
KOZHIKODE/ DELHI: A 14-year-old boy from Kerala’s Malappuram district who had tested positive for Nipah infection died while undergoing treatment at Kozhikode govt medical college on Sunday morning even as the state govt has intensified preventive measures including curbs in Pandikkad and Anakkayam panchayats in the affected district and has stepped up contact tracing.This is…
KOZHIKODE: The 14-year-old boy from Pandikkad in Malappuram, who tested positive for Nipah infection on Saturday, died while under treatment at the Kozhikode government medical college on Sunday morning. The state government has intensified preventive measures, including curbs in Pandikkad and Anakkayam panchayats, and has stepped up contact tracing efforts.Health Minister Veena George said in…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Actor-politician Suresh Gopi who was sworn in as a minister into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government a day ago has indicated that he could soon be “relieved from the Cabinet.”The actor-politician won from the Thrissur constituency in the 2024 parliamentary elections creating history as the first Lok Sabha MP of the BJP from Kerala.Gopi…
KOTTAYAM: ZamngIchan Chandini has witnessed horror and endured hardships that few 14-year-olds can imagine. Hailing from a violence-hit district in Manipur, Chandini, who lost her home in the ethnic conflagration that engulfed the northeastern state and was unable to continue her education, is now back in school, in Kerala, along with 46 other students who…
KOTTAYAM: ZamngIchan Chandini has witnessed horror and endured hardships that few 14-year-olds can imagine. Hailing from a violence-hit district in Manipur, Chandini, who lost her home in the ethnic conflagration that engulfed the northeastern state and was unable to continue her education, is now back in school, in Kerala, along with 46 other students who…
