Binu Karunakaran

Attempts to mass-delete voters, mostly Muslims, from the draft electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have emerged from at least tw

At the entrance to the Thiruvananthapuram museum and zoo compound, where the road curves towards the red and white colonial structure, a modest banner erected by the Kerala NGO Union, linked to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), signals the opposition against the proposal to shift the 167-year-old zoo from the city to a forest neighbourhood.

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In a moment reminiscent of protests in Bengaluru a decade ago, garment workers in several parts of Karnataka have protested new provident fund (PF) withdrawal rules. Unlike in April 2016 however, this time, the protests were mostly inside the factories. Workers were not allowed to leave the factories, activists and workers allege.

Karnataka wants to dramatically expand its data centre footprint. But this time, the state says the growth must come with a tighter check on how much power and water these facilities consume.

Karnataka wants to dramatically expand its data centre footprint. But this time, the state says the growth must come with a tighter check on how much power and

Nine service associations of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have again written to its chairman, V Narayanan, this time to reiterate that core questions on the future role of the agency, the “emerging threat of privatisation”, the policy on transfer of technology and manufacturing, among others, raised in their previous letter have not been answered by him. They also requested a meeting at the earliest to discuss these issues.

In an unusual move, three former health ministers of Kerala and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders - Veena George, KK Shailaja and PK Sreemati -convened a press meet on Thursday, October 22. All three raised their concerns over use of a generic medicine for patients of Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic condition that causes progressive loss of muscle strength, coordination and mobility. Former Health Minister Veena alleged that children with SMA were subjected to clinical trials.

Nearly a decade after he helped the Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) document marine life off the Thiruvananthapuram's coast, marine researcher Robert Panippilla arrived at the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan with a digital community biodiversity register that is intended to correct a decade-long injustice.

Nearly a decade after he helped the Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) document marine life off the Thiruvananthapuram’s coast, marine researcher Robert Pan