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According to official figures, the state has 4.7 lakh homeless families.

The participants, painted as tigers and hunters in yellow, red and black, danced to entertain a large crowd in Thrissur. Before this, Pulikali had always been a street performance staged exclusively by men.

According to the chargesheet, an inebriated migrant worker Amirul stabbed the victim multiple times when she resisted his attempt to sexually assault her.

“Kerala’s biggest contribution to the world is the great Hindu sanyasi Sree Narayana Guru. He, who had reformed Hindu dharma, was the greatest revolutionary as well,” the BJP’s Kerala unit said in a Facebook post.

In fact, the Kerala Film Chamber challenged the directive in the Kerala High Court and obtained a stay on the order last month.

Eminent lawyers would argue the case to ensure justice for Soumya and her family, said Vijayan.

Onam tweet: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan calls it humiliating, demands apology; BJP says Vaman Jayanti celebrated in TN, Andhra, Karnataka.

The woman, a law student, had filed a police complaint that the preacher, Naushad Ahsani, had insulted her for shaking hands with Finance Minister Thomas Isaac at a public event.

The incident occurred nine months after Baiju got a government job. His wife Shiny, also an ayurveda practitioner, was Baiju’s classmate.

An article in the latest edition of ‘Kesari’, the RSS’s Malayalam mouthpiece, contends that instead of Mahabali, the mythical Asura (or demon) king, Onam should welcome Vamana or Lord Vishnu.

The Devaswom Department (temple affairs body) has prepared a draft of the order, which would ban RSS training sessions in temple premises.

There has been attacks on offices of both the BJP and CPM in Thiruvanathapuram in the last one week.

M P Leelamma (72) was cremated Sunday on the premises of her house in Uzhava in Alappuzha district.

Babu, a close confidant of former chief minister Oommen Chandy, had quit as minister after a court ordered the registration of an FIR against him in the bar bribery scam.

Kerala has reported a string of dog bite cases, setting off a debate on whether this calls for drastic measures such as culling.

The actor, who is also a businessman, was arrested after a complaint from the school principal.

How the beginning has been for govts in Assam, Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which have either reached or are on the verge of reaching a landmark.

The comparisons became all the sharper Thursday when Vijayan addressed people on radio, similar to the Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat.

10 months after husband died, police conclude wife poisoned him with cyanide, arrest her along with friend; all three from Kollam with jobs in Melbourne

The BJP rubbished the allegations and slammed the LDF government’s “anti-Hindu” stance.

CPM veteran V S Achuthanandan also demanded a comprehensive probe into the alleged attempt to “sabotage” the case during the previous Congress-led UDF rule.

Reeling under a financial crisis and the deserting of its students, India’s only circus academy in Thalassery, Kerala, has shut down.

The stray dog menace came into the spotlight after a woman was mauled to death by a pack of dogs at Pullivilla near Thiruvananthapuram last week.

Police said the attack seemed to be a sequel to tension prevailing in the area since the processions on Wednesday.

SBT was virtually bulldozed into the merger plan without following the due process, claimed an official.

With tension prevailing between workers and activists of the two parties in many parts of the district, police in Kannur assigned separate routes for CPM and BJP processions.

Many workers’s residency permit (Ikama) has also expired.

Posing as Vigilance officials, the gang allegedly stole 60 sovereigns of gold and Rs 50,000 in cash from the businessman’s house in Perumbavoor on Friday.

The arrests followed an alert to the police from authorities at a regular school, where the children studied during the day time.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavan Sangamam in Kochi, Antony said the Congress has lost its mass base in Kerala due to infighting.

The victim, Shiluvamma, was mauled by about 50 stray dogs when she went to the Chembakaraman Thura seashore in the evening, police said.

Liquor outlets in Kerala are known for long queues. At many places, buyers queue up even before the outlets open for the day.

Moitheen said the existing liquor policy, introduced by the previous UDF government in 2014, was a severe setback to the tourism industry.

Bishop Acquinas and the priests — Kulantha Raj, Madalai Muthu and Lawrance Melcure — were held under IPC Sections 201 (destroying evidence or giving false information) and 202 (intentionally omitting information).

Aslam was among 17 IUML workers who were acquitted by a trial court two months ago in the murder case of CPM worker Shibin Bhaskaran.