Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan (left) greets former Kerala High Court judge P.K. Shamsuddin during a seminar at St. Albertâs College in Kochi on August 17, 2024 | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat India exporting arms to Israel amounts to assisting genocide and violation of the fundamental rights enshrined in Article 21…
Actor Mammootty | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT Filmmaker M.B. Padmakumar, a jury member of the South panel for the 70th National Film Awards, has stated that none of the movies starring senior actor Mammootty were submitted before the jury. âIt is painful to say that none of the movies of the actor released in the…
Kerala recently witnessed massive landslides in the Wayanad district claiming hundreds of lives But this isnât the first time that the âGodâs own countryâ is facing a natural calamity of this scale. Nearly 100 years ago, the state was ravaged by an even deadlier disaster –Â the Great Floods of 1924. An article that appeared in…
The Hema Committee report being submitted to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by the panel members on December 31, 2019. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The release of the Hema Committee report on issues of sexual harassment and gender inequality in the Malayalam film industry is set to be delayed further with the Kerala government…
The Kerala police team led by Additional Director General of Police M.R. Ajithkumar on the newly built Bailey bridge at Chooralmala. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The police have been working tirelessly, round the clock, in the disaster-affected areas of Punchirimattom, Mundakkai, and Chooralmala in Wayanad, providing a beacon of hope to those affected by…
The Kerala government on Friday issued formal orders and guidelines for the âsalary challengeâ for government employees aimed at mobilisation of aid in connection with the July 30 Wayanad landslides. Employees have been urged to contribute not less than five daysâ salary to the Chief Ministerâs Distress Relief Fund, the Finance department order said. It…
Image for representation purposes only. File | Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert of very heavy rains in two districts â Pathanamthitta and Idukki â and a yellow alert for the remaining districts across Kerala on Friday. It has forecasted isolated heavy rains. According to a weather bulletin…
People who were stranded at Attamala after the landslide being evacuated through a temporary bridge on July 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat A team of geologists who surveyed the landslide-hit zone in Wayanad on Thursday (August 15, 2024) said a heavy rainfall-induced âdamming effectâ in a densely forested and uninhabited uphill region had…
Asif Ali and Madhoo in Vilpana, a film in the series Manorathangal M.T. Vasudevan Nair and Aswathy V. Nair, with her son Madhav With his screenplays, M.T. Vasudevan Nair bridged the gap between the commerce and the art in Malayalam cinema like nobody else could before him. He penned some of the most unforgettable films…
The Hema Committee, headed by former Kerala High Court Judge K. Hema, was constituted in the wake of the sexual assault of an actor in 2017. | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (August 13, 2024) dismissed a writ petition challenging the State Information Commissionâs (SIC) order directing the Kerala government to…
