Thiruvananthapuram: Following intense protests for almost two months, private hospital nurses in Kerala called off their strike on Thursday after the government agreed to enforce a hike in their minimum pay to Rs 20,000. The decision was taken in a meeting of the representatives of nurses’ associations with Chief Minister Pinarayi VijayanContinue Reading
New Delhi: Ram Nath Kovind, a low-key lawyer-turned-politician, was elected Thursday as India’s 14th President, the first BJP member and the second Dalit to occupy the country’s highest office. The 71-year-old Kovind defeated joint opposition candidate Meira Kumar, a former Lok Sabha speaker, after garnering 65.65 percent of the votesContinue Reading
Kochi: Days after a Mumbai-based digital media company, Culture Machine, announced ‘First Day of Period Leave’ for its employees, a Kerala-based Malayalam news channel, Mathrubhumi, has become the first organisation in the state to follow suit. The channel, which employs around 75 women as part of its 300-member team, isContinue Reading
Wayanad: A Christian priest in Kerala has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor boys of an orphanage for two years, police said on Tuesday. The victims were staying at ‘Balbhavan’ in Meenangadi where the priest was working, a police official said. Fr Saji Joseph, who was allegedly sexuallyContinue Reading
New Delhi: Pope Francis is unlikely to visit India and Bangladesh this year as widely expected, a senior church official said Tuesday, with the high-profile visit postponed due to schedule clashes with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Pope had announced last year that he would “almost certainly” travel to SouthContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Love jihad. A phrase no one had heard of till 2009. But some parts of the Christian community in Kerala are now convinced it’s a real thing — that Muslim boys were seducing their girls and tricking them into marriage. And the BJP is reaping the benefits. Mathew MarContinue Reading
Anita Katyal The ongoing agitation in the Darjeeling Hills over the creation of Gorkhaland has caught the Bharatiya Janata Party in a bind. Even as violent protests continue over the statehood demand, the saffron party has not yet taken a clear stance on the matter and has instead kept theContinue Reading
A month of shutdown has forced lifestyle changes on a hill population short of food, transport and Internet services. A look at how Darjeeling is coping: Long marches Hill residents are walking the extra mile, literally, to keep their hearth burning. A vegetable trader who didn’t want to be namedContinue Reading
Cops claim to have leads on assailants, terror angle not ruled out
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Fact-finding team of CSSS and CSJP suspects involvement of more than one person; Demands impartial investigation into the crimesContinue Reading
