Actors Urvashi, Shweta Menon | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A day after the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) leadership made a guarded response to the Hema committee report on issues within the industry, the organisation found itself in the crosshairs with its own women members demanding more serious actions. Questions were also raised in…
The producers have been told to help the complainants lodge police complaints on criminal actions, including sexual assaults, in film locations. | Photo Credit: R.K. Nithin The Kerala Film Producers’ Association (KFPA) has welcomed the Kerala High Court’s directive to the Government to submit the entire K. Hema Committee report on the problems faced by…
Riders riding motorcycle on Kerala’s only drive-in beach, Muzhapilangad beach in Kannur which stretches across four kilometres of sand. File | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat Public Works and Tourism Minister P.A Mohamed Riyas has said that Muzhapilangad beach, Asia’s largest drive-in beach, will undergo renovations and be presented as a New Year gift to Kerala….
Industries Minister P. Rajeeve has said that the State government has little role in redacting portions of the K. Hema Committee report, which was released on Monday. He was talking to reporters in Kochi on the sidelines of Kerala’s maiden Robotics Round Table organised by the Kerala State Industries Development Corporation in association with the…
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan (file) | Photo Credit: ANI Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has highlighted Kerala’s growing appeal among international students even as the State undertakes significant reforms in its higher education sector. Speaking at the foundation stone-laying ceremony for Pinarayi Education Hub here on Friday (August 23, 2024), Mr. Vijayan said only a…
CPI leader Annie Raja (file) | Photo Credit: PTI Annie Raja, a Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretariat member and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW), expressed deep scepticism about the Kerala government’s decision to hold a cinema conclave in Kochi in November. Ms. Raja told reporters in New Delhi…
A district-level advocacy meeting on seeking the support of stakeholders in reducing and preventing violence against sex workers has underlined the need to ensure dignity of those who wish to continue with sex work. The meeting, organised by two community-based organisations Mythri and Aiswarya Suraksha, Thiruvananthapuram District Legal Services Authority, National Network of Sex Workers,…
The landslide-hit Chooralmala in Wayanad district. | Photo Credit: ANI A collective of environmental organisations and people’s representatives in the district has urged the government to constitute a rehabilitation mission for the survivors of the Chooralmala landslides. Wayanad district panchayat president Samshad Marakkar said rehabilitation was not a bounty or generosity of a government but…
The Cheemeni police on August 22 (Thursday) arrested Vipindas, who allegedly stabbed and seriously injured his brother over a property row at Thazhaechembrakanam in Cheemeni on Wednesday night. According to the police, Varundasi, 26, sustained severe lung injuries and was rushed to a hospital in Mangaluru, where he remains in critical condition. His father, Vipradas,…
Thiruvananthapuram On Thursday, Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal appeared to contradict the government’s refrain that the absence of a specific complaint from those who deposed before the Justice K Hema Committee had precluded the State from initiating prosecution based on the panel’s incriminating findings, including instances of pervasive sexual exploitation of women and minors. Speaking to…
