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Fire breaks out at two-wheeler showroom in Thiruvananthapuram city in Kerala

Around three vehicles in the showroom and possibly some in the service centre are believed to be damaged or destroyed

7 Jun 2025 9:36 am
A sunken ship and a sea of worries

On May 25, a container ship sank off the coast of Kerala. While all the 24 crew members were rescued, some of the ships containers with hazardous cargo have either gone down with the vessel or have washed ashore. While the world worries about environmental pollution from this particular incident, John L. Paul finds that the fisher folk are more concerned about indiscriminate mining and the dumping of untreated pollutants

7 Jun 2025 3:12 am
State public health lab develops molecular tests to identify deadly amoeba

This is the firsttime that the lab has managed to identify and give confirmatory diagnosis of the causative organism of amoebic encephalitis in a human sample using moleculardiagnostic tests developed in its own lab. The lab has developed tests to identify five species of amoeba which are commonly found to cause serious disease in humans

6 Jun 2025 11:00 pm
Railways take lead in holding series of sustainability initiatives

A total of 35 sapling plantation programmes were held at various stations, resulting in the planting of 1,210 saplings. Additionally, 32 sapling distribution programmes enabled the distribution of 1,131 saplings to railway employees, passengers, and public

6 Jun 2025 9:03 pm
6 Jun 2025 8:46 pm
Longest elevated highway taking shape

Though the ongoing construction has turned the corridor into a major bottleneck, it is making progress with 65% of the work completed. Once finished, it will be the longest flyover in the country under the NHAI.

6 Jun 2025 8:45 pm
Thiruvananthapuram Corporation shifts family found to be living in a dilapidated house to a flat

Following media reports about the familys plight, Mayor Arya Rajendran visited the family on Friday morning and issued orders to the officials concerned to allot the vacant flat to the family

6 Jun 2025 8:27 pm
Cooperative museum project hits a roadblock

Karassery bank plans to lease out part of the building to raise funds

6 Jun 2025 8:24 pm
K-Homes remains a non-starter despite being in demand

The project, announced in the latest Kerala Budget, envisages renting out unoccupied houses in tourist destinations as holiday homes. Not a single house has been rented out yet. Kerala Tourism says guidelines are being drafted

6 Jun 2025 8:21 pm
Supply shortage forces SCTIMST doctors to call off neuro-interventional procedures indefinitely

Supply issues arose because the rate contract for medical supplies was not renewed after 2023. Sources say the Union government wants all public procurement to go through the Government e-Marketplace portal, but there are several quality concerns

6 Jun 2025 8:02 pm
Heavy rain destroys crops in Kozhikode; farmers await compensation

According to preliminary estimates, nearly 2,000 farmers in the Kozhikode district suffered significant losses

6 Jun 2025 7:34 pm
CPI MP writes to President alleging misuse of Governors office in Opposition-ruled States

P. Sandosh Kumar mentions recent incident in which State Agriculture Minister boycotted a function at Raj Bhavan citing the use of a particular version of the Bharat Mata image

6 Jun 2025 7:04 pm
Producer Sandra Thomas alleges death threat

She says police have not taken any action against Reni Joseph who threatened her over phone

6 Jun 2025 6:54 pm
Aabhyanthara Kuttavaali movie review: A one-sided pamphlet against Section 498A

Aabhyanthara Kuttavaali falters when it generalises a few instances of women misusing Section 498A, while closing its eyes to the numerous cases of domestic abuse and dowry harassment and deaths of women which necessitated the framing of such a law

6 Jun 2025 5:50 pm
Malayalam writer Benyamin: Our scriptures have a lot to tell us

In The Second Book of Prophets, the English translation of the 2007 Malayalam novel Pravachakanmarude Randaam Pusthakam, the author, Benyamin, delves into the 1940s-50s discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library

6 Jun 2025 3:52 pm
Political row brews over Bakrid holiday in Kerala

Indian Union Muslim League accuses Kerala government of attempting to implement communal agenda and fascism in the State

6 Jun 2025 1:32 pm
Clam sector plumbs new depths

The Vembanad Lake ecosystem and clam fishery are facing an unprecedented crisis. The deteriorating water quality and plummeting clam production have hit the lives of a large number of people who once survived on clam fishery. Hiran Unnikrishnan and Sam Paul A. find out what is worrying the ecologists as well as fishers of the region

5 Jun 2025 11:37 pm
Vote splitters set to play spoilsports as LDF, UDF clash in Nilambur byelection

The contest between UDFs Aryadan Shoukath and LDFs M. Swaraj has garnered special attention due to the presence of three other key players: All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) State convener P.V. Anvar, who is contesting as and Independent; BJPs Mohan George; and Social Democratic Party of Indias (SDPI) Sadik Naduthodi. These candidates can potentially siphon off crucial votes, impacting the outcome in a closely contested election.

5 Jun 2025 9:02 pm
Keralite at the helm of the worlds biggest container ship

As the worlds largest container vessel MSC Irina is set to berth at Vizhinjam, its captain, a native of Thrissur, says the international port should have materialised much earlier. He sees the port helping the country achieving an economic leap.

5 Jun 2025 8:43 pm
Govt. nod for 643.88-crore organ transplant institute in Kozhikode

The institute is envisaged as an umbrella organisation, which will bring together scientists, researchers and expert clinicians and coordinate all activities related to organ donation and transplant in the State, including treatment and rehabilitation. The institute will come up on 20 acres at Chevayur in Kozhikode

5 Jun 2025 8:42 pm
Its a rocky journey for children from Kallakkuttykudy to reach their school

The students have to use a temporary bamboo bridge to cross the Nallathanni river during the rainy season. The original bridge over the river was swept away in the 2018 floods and has not been reconstructed till now

5 Jun 2025 8:39 pm