Kerala

In Kerala, paddy production and area under paddy cultivation have been shrinking over the years, but farmers at Mayyil village panchayat in Kannur district have reversed their fortunes. Paddy cultivation had turned into an unremunerative activity mainly due to increasing labour costs, low yields and

Raman, a sexagenarian tribal farmer known as a “living paddy gene bank”, is tending to freshly planted saplings in his three-acre land that resembles a green carpet. Two Class 6 students and their teacher from a nearby government school are asking Raman about the paddy varieties in the field in

When K R Jayan would go around Irinjalakuda, his hometown in Kerala’s Thrissur district, planting jackfruit seeds on empty plots along the roadside, the locals thought he was just a little bit loony. “But when they saw me also watering the seeds and young plants emerging out of them, I became a

FROM CONSTRUCTION to engineering and IT, they came from different backgrounds, united by a passion for farming, and a dream to do good. Today, these 17 young men are the heroes of an entire panchayat beyond the outer edge of Kochi. Guided by Kerala’s agriculture department and scientists, they

Abandoned by her husband 12 years ago, and without a home of her own, Salomi Mathai and her two children had been living at the mercy of their close relatives. Until this month. On April 7, Mathai, a 43-year-old daily-wage worker in Kerala’s Idukki district, moved to a three-room apartment

KERALA POLICE on Tuesday inducted a humanoid police robot into the force, becoming the first police department in the country to use robot for police work. The robot named KP-Bot was unveiled by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at the state police headquarters, where the robot would be deployed to

Every weekend, 10-year-old Fathima keenly waits for a group of boys and girls of her age. They bring her sweets, read stories to her, watch movies with her and push her wheelchair out of the house. For Fathima, who suffers from cerebral palsy, these friends represent her social life which she misses

Humorous memes, self-deprecating jokes, a 99 per cent response rate balanced with informative in-house awareness videos and creative digital posters —- the official Facebook page of Kerala Police has all this and more. And on January 10, the state police marked a milestone when the Facebook page

Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned projects worth Rs.85.23 crore for the development of Spiritual Circuit III for Kerala under Swadesh Darshan Scheme. The sites identified under the circuit are spread across all 14 districts of the state and cover 133 religious places. The Circuit covers religious

In a touching re-union, 93-year-old EK Narayanan Nambiar, who was jailed for participating in the 1946 violent farmers' struggle in Kerala's Kavumbayi village, met his first wife after 72 years, leaving them both speechless and teary-eyed. As the two sat quietly and wiped away tears, Sarada, now 89

As part of a housing project launched by the Kerala government, 192 homeless fishermen families were rehabilitated in modern apartments here on Wednesday. The beneficiaries of the housing scheme included families which had lost their huts due to sea erosion in the last several years and those who

A 96-year-old woman has cracked the literacy examination conducted by the Kerala government scoring 98 out of 100 marks. Karthyayini Amma, who lives in Cheppad in Alappuzha district, was the oldest among 43,330 students who sat for the examination in August this year in a bid to be deemed ‘literate’