Kollam

A 28-year-old man in Kerala has been found guilty of murdering his wife by getting her bitten by a cobra in May last year.

Kerala's once scenic Ashtamudi Lake, described as the gateway to the state's backwaters and preferred by tourists world over for houseboat rides, has become a dump site for sewage which is slowly choking it to death, according to a KeLSA inspection.

In an alleged incident of moral policing, a 44-year-old woman and her 23-year-old son were recently attacked by a man while they were having food inside their car on a busy roadside in Kerala's Kollam district.

Kerala's oldest learner Bhageerathi Amma, who passed the literacy examination at the age of 105 two years ago and won the praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, died in Kollam, family sources said.

With a surge in COVID-19 cases in Kerala, a team deputed by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday visited Kollam to evaluate the prevention activities and health measures taken for COVID management in the district.

In a tragic story that has left Kerala in shock, a 24-year-old woman who had sent WhatsApp messages to her family sharing photos of alleged torture over dowry, was found dead at her husband's home on Monday.

A 42-year-old nun was found dead on Friday in a well of a convent in Kerala's Kollam district.

Seeking to reach out to the fishing community in poll-bound Kerala, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today interacted with the fishermen at Thangassery beach in Kerala's Kollam district. During his interaction, Mr Gandhi again called for a separate fisheries ministry, despite being fact-checked by the Centre last week.

Reshma Nadh, 31, has been leaving her three-year-old-son and travelling to Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram every day at the crack of dawn, from the neighbouring district Kollam, to be part of a protest by the state's Public Service Commission exam rank holders outside the state government secretariat. Ms Nadh scored the 392nd rank in the 2018 exa...

A 46-year old lottery vendor in Kerala's Kollam has won Rs 12 crore jackpot with an unsold ticket in the state government's Christmas-New Year bumper issue.

Anil Panachooran was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kollam district

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) called a three-hour strike in five panchayats of Kollam - a southern district in Kerala - on Monday afternoon after a CPI(M) worker, Manilal, was murdered on Sunday night.

More than four years after a massive explosion and fire killing over 100 people during Puttingal temple festival in Kerala's Kollam district, the state crime branch on Friday filed a chargesheet against 59 accused, including 15 temple officials. More than 600 people were injured in the tragedy.

A 105-year-old woman in Kerala's Kollam district has recovered from coronavirus and was discharged on Wednesday. She had been admitted to the Government Medical College in the district on July 20, after she tested positive with symptoms of fever and cough.

A fully-functional miniature of the Jeep Willys was built in Kerala by Arunkumar for a 10-year old boy. The boy, a native of Anchal town in the district of Kollam, Kerala, was gifted this miniature Willys which takes inspiration from the SUV used in the Mohanlal starrer - Lucifer. The video uploaded on a social platform not only highlights the main...

A 28-year-old man in Kerala has been found guilty of murdering his wife by getting her bitten by a cobra in May last year.

Kerala's once scenic Ashtamudi Lake, described as the gateway to the state's backwaters and preferred by tourists world over for houseboat rides, has become a dump site for sewage which is slowly choking it to death, according to a KeLSA inspection.

In an alleged incident of moral policing, a 44-year-old woman and her 23-year-old son were recently attacked by a man while they were having food inside their car on a busy roadside in Kerala's Kollam district.

Kerala's oldest learner Bhageerathi Amma, who passed the literacy examination at the age of 105 two years ago and won the praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, died in Kollam, family sources said.

With a surge in COVID-19 cases in Kerala, a team deputed by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday visited Kollam to evaluate the prevention activities and health measures taken for COVID management in the district.

In a tragic story that has left Kerala in shock, a 24-year-old woman who had sent WhatsApp messages to her family sharing photos of alleged torture over dowry, was found dead at her husband's home on Monday.

A 42-year-old nun was found dead on Friday in a well of a convent in Kerala's Kollam district.

Seeking to reach out to the fishing community in poll-bound Kerala, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today interacted with the fishermen at Thangassery beach in Kerala's Kollam district. During his interaction, Mr Gandhi again called for a separate fisheries ministry, despite being fact-checked by the Centre last week.

Reshma Nadh, 31, has been leaving her three-year-old-son and travelling to Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram every day at the crack of dawn, from the neighbouring district Kollam, to be part of a protest by the state's Public Service Commission exam rank holders outside the state government secretariat. Ms Nadh scored the 392nd rank in the 2018 exa...

A 46-year old lottery vendor in Kerala's Kollam has won Rs 12 crore jackpot with an unsold ticket in the state government's Christmas-New Year bumper issue.

Anil Panachooran was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kollam district

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) called a three-hour strike in five panchayats of Kollam - a southern district in Kerala - on Monday afternoon after a CPI(M) worker, Manilal, was murdered on Sunday night.

More than four years after a massive explosion and fire killing over 100 people during Puttingal temple festival in Kerala's Kollam district, the state crime branch on Friday filed a chargesheet against 59 accused, including 15 temple officials. More than 600 people were injured in the tragedy.

A 105-year-old woman in Kerala's Kollam district has recovered from coronavirus and was discharged on Wednesday. She had been admitted to the Government Medical College in the district on July 20, after she tested positive with symptoms of fever and cough.

A fully-functional miniature of the Jeep Willys was built in Kerala by Arunkumar for a 10-year old boy. The boy, a native of Anchal town in the district of Kollam, Kerala, was gifted this miniature Willys which takes inspiration from the SUV used in the Mohanlal starrer - Lucifer. The video uploaded on a social platform not only highlights the main...