Keralas Taliban

An Afghan national and a post-doctoral fellow in the University of Kerala has been stranded abroad for over two years for want of visa after the Taliban took over the country.

BJP state president K Surendran on Saturday alleged that mainstream political parties in Kerala are vying to extend support to Taliban after the terrorist group took control over Afghanistan.

Among hundreds of prisoners released by the Taliban from an Afghan jail after their takeover of Kabul was Nimisha Fathima from Kerala, who had surrendered to Afghan forces after joining the terror group ISIS.

The Kerala government has said at least 41 Malayalis including women and children have been stranded in Taliban-controlled Kabul and requested the Centre to make necessary arrangements for their safe evacuation to the home country.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member S Ramachandran Pillai today equated Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with "Taliban and Khalistan terrorists" while holding them responsible for the stand-off on entry of menstruating women in Kerala's Sabarimala Temple.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, deep in controversy over his "Hindu Pakistan" remark, today fought back, asking if there was a "Taliban emerging within Hinduism now". The former diplomat was expressing his outrage after the BJP and right wing groups said he should be deported to Pakistan for his remark that India would become a "Hindu Pakist...

The murder of a CPI(M) youth wing leader in Kerala has led to a massive crackdown by police on activists associated with the radical Islamic organization, Popular Front Of India (PFI), and its political wing Social Democratic Party of India.

An ISIS unit has been exposed in Kerala, the police said today after the arrest of five suspects in Kannur. UK Hamsa or Taliban Hamsa, believed to be the key terrorist handler, is among the five men arrested since yesterday.

When love is punished as obscene, it's time to get to work, writes Rahul Pasupalan.

Seeking to express solidarity with Malala Yousafzai, the teenage rights activist who was shot in her head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, a Kerala-based publishing house has brought out a Malayalam version of her much popular diary.

At 23, Rayana Khasi has been consigned to constant scrutiny. Two days ago, her car was stoned by men she cannot identify in Kasaragod. A policeman, meant to be with her at all time, had told her he had to go home.Yet, Rayana refuses to reconsider the decision that has turned her into an icon of sorts in Kerala.  A year ago, she returned to her...

For nearly a year, Rayana had been receiving death threats from fundamentalists for not wearing the veil. Now, this 23-year old engineering graduate from Kasaragod has spoken out."One man called me and threatened me. I got many such threatening letters, in that the man wrote that he will kill me," said Rayana R Khasi, Engineering Graduate.Rayana re...

An Afghan national and a post-doctoral fellow in the University of Kerala has been stranded abroad for over two years for want of visa after the Taliban took over the country.

BJP state president K Surendran on Saturday alleged that mainstream political parties in Kerala are vying to extend support to Taliban after the terrorist group took control over Afghanistan.

Among hundreds of prisoners released by the Taliban from an Afghan jail after their takeover of Kabul was Nimisha Fathima from Kerala, who had surrendered to Afghan forces after joining the terror group ISIS.

The Kerala government has said at least 41 Malayalis including women and children have been stranded in Taliban-controlled Kabul and requested the Centre to make necessary arrangements for their safe evacuation to the home country.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member S Ramachandran Pillai today equated Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with "Taliban and Khalistan terrorists" while holding them responsible for the stand-off on entry of menstruating women in Kerala's Sabarimala Temple.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, deep in controversy over his "Hindu Pakistan" remark, today fought back, asking if there was a "Taliban emerging within Hinduism now". The former diplomat was expressing his outrage after the BJP and right wing groups said he should be deported to Pakistan for his remark that India would become a "Hindu Pakist...

The murder of a CPI(M) youth wing leader in Kerala has led to a massive crackdown by police on activists associated with the radical Islamic organization, Popular Front Of India (PFI), and its political wing Social Democratic Party of India.

An ISIS unit has been exposed in Kerala, the police said today after the arrest of five suspects in Kannur. UK Hamsa or Taliban Hamsa, believed to be the key terrorist handler, is among the five men arrested since yesterday.

When love is punished as obscene, it's time to get to work, writes Rahul Pasupalan.

Seeking to express solidarity with Malala Yousafzai, the teenage rights activist who was shot in her head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, a Kerala-based publishing house has brought out a Malayalam version of her much popular diary.

At 23, Rayana Khasi has been consigned to constant scrutiny. Two days ago, her car was stoned by men she cannot identify in Kasaragod. A policeman, meant to be with her at all time, had told her he had to go home.Yet, Rayana refuses to reconsider the decision that has turned her into an icon of sorts in Kerala.  A year ago, she returned to her...

For nearly a year, Rayana had been receiving death threats from fundamentalists for not wearing the veil. Now, this 23-year old engineering graduate from Kasaragod has spoken out."One man called me and threatened me. I got many such threatening letters, in that the man wrote that he will kill me," said Rayana R Khasi, Engineering Graduate.Rayana re...