12+ hour, 35+ min ago   (828+ words) According to the Union government’s Elderly in India 2021 report, people aged 60 and above accounted for 16.5 per cent of Keralam’s population in 2021. That figure is projected to rise to 20.9 per cent by 2031, compared with a national projection of 13.1 per cent. In…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1108+ words) Opposition to the Kasturirangan Committee's recommendations on the Western Ghats is gaining momentum across Karnataka’s Malnad region, with protests continuing in places including Honnavar, Sringeri, Shivamogga and Karkala. What began as a debate over environmental protection has now turned into…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1719+ words) In an exclusive interview with The Federal, Gowda, Professor and Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Vidyashilp University, Bengaluru, talks about his latest book, Longing for an Elsewhere: Mysore and the Making of India’s Developmental State, Mysuru’s pursuit of…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (454+ words) The Congress government in Karnataka has taken a stand against the Centre’s guidelines making it mandatory to sing all six stanzas of Vande Mataram. It has now issued a significant order stating that, henceforth, only the first two stanzas of…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (742+ words) Keralam’s power crisis is deepening, with frequent night-time power outages and load shedding continuing across the state. The disruptions have put the UDF government on the defensive, with the opposition and experts questioning whether timely intervention could have prevented the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (890+ words) Dr Aysha Mohammed, a 33-year-old postgraduate dental surgeon working in Doha, Qatar, spent more than three weeks sitting in protest outside her estranged husband’s parental house at Edakkazhiyur in Chavakkad, Thrissur, Keralam. She came to the house demanding what she…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (260+ words) Keralam TV journalist Aparna Kurup. Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 9 (PTI) Keralam Chief Minister V D Satheesan on Wednesday rejected the BJP's allegation that the UDF government was adopting "Talibanism" by registering a case against a television journalist. Responding to reporters, Satheesan said…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (430+ words) Kochi, Sep 7 (PTI) The police in Keralam on Monday registered a case against television journalist Aparna Kurup for allegedly hurting religious sentiments while anchoring a political debate on controversial anti-women remarks by Sunni Islamic scholar Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar....

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (424+ words) People gather near wreckage of a car after it collided with a lorry parked on the highway at Kaipamangalam, in Thrissur district, Keralam, on Saturday, September 5. PTI Some of the eight Tamil Nadu engineering students who were killed in a…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (417+ words) A 26-year-old man was killed in the early hours of Monday (September 7) after a car registered in the name of Tamil Nadu Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Minister K Jagadeshwari struck his two-wheeler at Kattankulathur in Chengalpattu district. The deceased…...