It is double whammy for cardamom growers in Kerala's Idukki district this year.
Hanan Hamid walked the ramp wearing a traditional half-saree to promote Khadi products here.
The cardamom farmers in Kerala are facing a bleak future this season. An extreme four-month dry spell has damaged at least 40 per cent of the cardamom plants in Kerala's hilly Idukki district.
M E Meeran, a former wholesale dealer in provisions, is conquering the world with his Eastern brand of spices and curry powders.
An IMD bulletin said the low pressure area could intensify into a cyclonic storm, triggering heavy to very heavy rainfall in several parts of Kerala.
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A senior executive of NIA confirmed the development and said that the insurance company is assessing damage to the airport's assets
A clear picture will emerge by then after the UDF liasion committee meeting on March 8.
'If questioning and dethroning hierarchies is your primary motive, why not put an end to the practice of announcing your shining star, your box office draw, in big flaming letters and mentioning everyone else's name in small font at the bottom of the screen?' asks Sreehari Nair.
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With over 8.69 lakh people still in 2,287 relief camps, it is a subdued 'Onam', the harvest festival, in the state.
The veteran Kerala Congress leader had been a dominant player in Kerala's coalition politics, serving under six chief ministers.
Leader of Opposition in Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala demanded a judicial probe into the circumstances that led to opening of shutters of 40-odd dams at a time in the state.
In Kottayam district alone, 120 people have "returned" to the Hindu faith in the last three months.
The Kerala government has set up a web site, keralarescue.in, to coordinate relief and aid for the floods-affected people. It has also set up a website for online transfer of donations towards flood relief.
A total of 311 people from various districts are under observation, Health Minister K K Shailaja said.
Rajiv Khel Ratna award winner Beenamol's accomplishments in athletics spurred development in her native village.
The Congress high command on Thursday approved the list of its candidates for Lok Sabha polls in Kerala retaining all but two sitting MPs, including Union Ministers Shashi Tharoor and K V Thomas, giving a head start to the party in the campaign against rival Left Democratic Front.
Accompanied by police personnel, the members of Chennai-based women empowerment outfit 'Manithi' could barely move 100 metres through the traditional forest path towards the temple when hundreds of devotees rushed down to the valley to chase them away.
Sixteen deaths in rain and flood-related incidents have been reported from western Maharashtra in the last seven days, while the toll in Karnataka rose to five since Sunday.
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The visual of a man kneeling down in muddy waters to help women step on to him to get into rescue boats went viral on Sunday.
In a relief to college lecturer T J Joseph, whose hand was chopped off by activists of a radical outfit, a magistrate court in Idukki has exonerated him of the charge of hurting religious sentiments of a community through a question paper he set for his students.
Rediff reader Thomas GK who recently travelled to Gavi, an eco-forest in Kerala with his family shares his experience.
The results of blood samples of the student, which were tested at the National Institute of Virology in Pune, have confirmed Nipah, she said.
To an award show that's famous for honouring artists belatedly, we have sent as our official entry one of our major film-makers's weakest work yet, feels Sreehari Nair.
In 2010, the accused chopped off Joseph's hand accusing him of hurting religious sentiments of a community through a question paper he set for his students.
Meanwhile, flight operations from the Kochi international airport will resume at 12 noon on Sunday, an airport official said.
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A special National Investigative Agency court, which convicted 13 people in the sensational hand chopping case of a college professor in Kerala in 2010, will pronounce the quantum of punishment on May 8.
"Such was their efficiency that in fact, no deaths by drowning were reported in any area where Naval teams systematically organised their rescue efforts," he said.
The Assam government has taken the initiative to pay workers their wages electronically and has asked banks to open branches adjacent to tea gardens and install ATMs in estates.
The national capital received heavy precipitation resulting in waterlogging on several roads and traffic jams at various intersections.
Flood in the rice bowl: Keralites who lost everything stare at uncertainty.
The dam is located on the Western Ghats near Thekkady in Idukki district of Kerala on the Periyar river.
'My life has been full of suffering for the last five years,' says Professor T J Joseph whose hand was hacked by Islamists in a brutal attack.
'The genetic thing is not in your control. The virulence is not known.' 'The only thing is if you can avoid it.' 'Once you get COVID-19, none of it is in your control.'
In a marathon 16-hour-long surgery, doctors at the Kochi-based Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre successfully conducted India's first hand transplant on Tuesday.
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