Kerala

A two-year-old girl slipped and fell off a houseboat into the backwaters here while playing with her parents and drowned, police said today.

A studio in Kerala's Kozhikode district that specialised in wedding photography and other family functions allegedly morphed photographs of women, taken during weddings, and used them for pornographic purposes.

A 24-year-old Indian sailor has been reported missing from a ship in the waters near Mauritius since Sunday. The Kerala-based family of Ashwin Kumar Hari has written to Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj seeking the government's help in locating him.

A 24-hour nationwide strike called by trade unions was observed across Kerala on Monday.

Normal life in Kerala is expected to be affected today in view of a 24-hour general strike called by various trade unions demanding rollback of a central government order allowing fixed term employment across sectors.

Nigerian actor Samuel A Robinson, who recently starred in the Malayalam film Sudani from Nigeria, has accused the producers of the film of racism.

It was a chaotic scene at Kerala's famous Sabarimala temple on Friday morning after an elephant carrying a priest ran amok. The elephant suddenly became uncontrollable amidst the chants of a sea of devotees and left 12 of them injured, including the 36-year-old priest who was sitting atop.

A family of three and another person from Kasaragod district of Kerala, suspected to have joined terror outfit ISIS, have been reportedly killed, according to information reaching one of their relatives.

A Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus driver was mercilessly beaten up and assaulted after he overtook another vehicle in a dangerous manner in Pallakad.

A frail elderly man lying on a bed, whimpering in pain as a nursing attendant twists his twists his fingers: the cellphone video from a government hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, which is being widely circulated, has evoked anger and shock.

In a written reply, the minister said that as many as 1,24,147 children had not filled up the columns which mentions caste and religion while enrolling in different standards of the government and government-aided schools during 2017-18 academic year.

A huge cache of explosives, including 100 cartons of gelatin sticks, was seized in Kerala's Malappuram district today. The explosives was found hidden in a vehicle with Karnataka registration.

The Kerala High Court today refused to stay trial of the over two decades old Sister Abhaya murder case.

The Kerala godman whose penis was allegedly chopped off by a 23-year-old woman who had accused him of rape got his genital back through surgery on Tuesday. After changing his statement twice, the self-styled godman - Hari Swami, now claims that some "bigwigs are working against him" who were behind his penis chopping.

The Kerala government today decided to declare nine of its 14 districts as drought-hit in view of scarcity of rains, shortage of surface and ground water, and intrusion of saline water.