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North Kerala on high alert after shigella bacterial infection claims one life
State health minister K K Shailaja said the health department will conduct a health camp in the area in a couple of days and investigation is on to locate the main source of the infection. She said health experts have said the infection spreads through water and food and keeping good hygiene was primary to check the spread.
Updated on Dec 20, 2020 02:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
Heavy downpour adds to Kerala’s Covid-19 woes
Red alert has been declared in three districts, Kozhikkode, Wayanad and Idukki, and orange alert in five other districts.
Updated on Aug 06, 2020 07:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
Kerala reports 11 new Covid-19 cases
The state has reported 587 Covid-19 positive cases so far, of which 87 are still active. North Kerala’s Wayanad and Kasaragod have emerged as hotspots.
Updated on May 16, 2020 08:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu
Covid-19: Kerala reports one solitary case, 78,980 under observation
The lone positive case was reported from Kozhikode district in north Kerala. Out of 395 positive cases in the state 255 have discharged and in one week more than 50,000 were taken out of the observation list, the CM’s office said.
Updated on Apr 17, 2020 08:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
Few new Covid-19 cases and more recoveries in Kerala, experts see light at the end of the tunnel
Among the seven fresh cases, two are Nizamuddin-returned Tablighi Jamaat members, both from Malappuram. 17 of the 212 Jamaat members found to have attended the Delhi event have tested positive.
Updated on Apr 10, 2020 09:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
Two arrested in Kerala for jumping home quarantine, later released
The Kerala government has warned of action, including a 6-month jail term, and asked district officials to deal with those skipping home quarantine sternly.
Updated on Mar 20, 2020 07:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthpuram | HT Correspondent
K Surendran assumes charge as Kerala BJP president
The state unit was divided into two prominent factions, one led by Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and the other by P K Krishnadas. The two factions later came together after the party leadership issued an ultimatum.
Updated on Feb 22, 2020 04:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
3-year-old mystery behind severed body parts in north Kerala cracked
When the local police could not make any headway, the case was handed over to the crime branch after six months. Police said they later found that the severed body parts were of a small-time criminal M Ismail, who was involved in many crimes.
Published on Jan 17, 2020 10:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
Christian girls are targeted by ‘love jihad’, says Kerala church
Many reformist groups in the church, meanwhile, said that the issue has been raised “at a wrong time”.
Updated on Jan 15, 2020 05:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
‘Saw beautiful ring of fire’: Kerala students after watching solar eclipse
The state turned it into a big celebration. Almost all district headquarters made special arrangements to view the spectacle.
Updated on Dec 26, 2019 04:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu
Man sentenced to life term in jail for raping minor Dalit girl in Kerala
After the verdict, the public prosecutor said this was the first judgment in South India after the amendment in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act passed by Parliament in August this year.
Updated on Dec 04, 2019 06:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
‘Moving towards an authoritarian state’: Rahul Gandhi on FIR against celebs
The Congress leader is in Wayanad to express solidarity with protestors who are on a fast against the night traffic ban along the Kozhikode-Bengaluru National Highway 766.
Updated on Oct 04, 2019 09:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu
Kerala HC asks CBI to probe killing of two Youth Congress workers
The court accepted the contention of the petitioner and said key evidence had been overlooked and investigators took the statements of the accused as “gospel truth”.
Updated on Sep 30, 2019 09:35 PM IST
Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
Rain fury abates: Rahul Gandhi rushes aid to flood-hit Wayanad as death toll rises to 110
Party leaders said the fresh consignment had 50,000 kgs of rice and other essentials like sugar, salt and different varieties of pulses. Besides food, the consignment also carried bed sheets, blankets and mats for the flood-hit people.
Updated on Aug 17, 2019 01:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
Kerala flood aftershocks: Unusual soil piping phenomenon adds to misery
Soil piping and lateral spread-- soils movement downhill-- visible in Kerala are recipes for major disasters say geoogists. Soil piping is indicative of serious destabilising inside earth in extreme conditions.
Updated on Aug 14, 2019 09:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu
EC orders re-polling in 4 Kerala booths over complaints of bogus voting
The re-polling will be conducted in three booths in Kasargode.
Published on May 16, 2019 07:21 PM IST
Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
Video of false voting in Kerala goes viral, polling officer orders probe
In the video, which was later picked up by Malayalam news channels, some people were seen indulging in bogus voting with the connivance of poll officials.
Updated on Apr 27, 2019 04:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
In Kerala, nominees make final pitch as campaign ends on Sunday
AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi is campaigning in her brother’s second constituency Wayanad in north Kerala on the last day while Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to hold a road show in Sultan Bathery and CM Pinarayi Vijayan will hold a rally in north Kerala.
Updated on Apr 21, 2019 11:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu
Sabarimala temple body hits streets again, protests outside Secretariat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who addressed a rally in north Kerala’s Kozhikkode on Friday made it clear that Sabarimala remained the party’s main poll plank in the state.
Updated on Apr 14, 2019 10:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram: | HT Correspondent
Recurring political violence a key poll issue in Kerala
More than 200 people have been killed in the last three decades in RSS-Left violence Kannur in north Kerala.
Updated on Apr 10, 2019 10:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Kasargod | Ramesh Babu
After floods, Kerala now stares at drought as temperatures soar
Six months after a devastating flood crippled Kerala, the state is in the grip of a severe drought and experts have warned that heat wave conditions will persist in many areas of north Kerala for more than a month.
Published on Mar 04, 2019 05:16 PM IST
Shutdown in Kerala over murder of 2 Youth Congress workers
The Congress party has alleged Kripesh, 21, and Sharath Lal, 24, were waylaid and hacked to death by a group of CPI(M) workers.
Updated on Feb 18, 2019 11:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu
Kannur gets an international airport, fourth in Kerala
The Opposition Congress boycotted the function to protest the exclusion of former CM Oommen Chandy from invitees list and the BJP also kept away protesting the government stand on hill temple Sabarimala.
Updated on Dec 09, 2018 06:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramesh Babu
Kerala high court disqualifies Muslim League MLA
After disqualifying the legislator, the single bench of the High Court also instructed the election commission to conduct fresh election.
Updated on Nov 09, 2018 01:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramesh Babu
Class 5 student expelled from madrasa for wearing ‘bindi’ in a short film
In a social media post, the father of the girl slammed the madrasa for expelling her despite her good performance in both curricular and extra-curricular activities.
Updated on Jul 06, 2018 09:25 PM IST
Thiruvananthapuram, Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
11 people from Kerala go missing in Dubai, families fear Islamic State link
As many as 21 people, most of them hailing from upper-middle class and well-educated families, had disappeared from the state under suspicious conditions in 2016.
Updated on Jun 27, 2018 07:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu
Kerala Police detain woman after mysterious deaths of her children and parents
Police suspect foul play after an autopsy of one of the dead bodies showed traces of aluminium phosphide which is used to kill rodents.
Updated on Apr 24, 2018 09:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu
Woman gets 7-year jail for helping 15 Kerala youths join Islamic State
Yasmin Ahmed’s conviction is the first in an IS-related case in Kerala.
Updated on Mar 24, 2018 10:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu, Thiruvananthapuram