By Thomas Scaria Angamaly, Nov 22, 2023: It was around midnight on 26 October, 2023, when I visited a police station in Angamaly, a small town in the southern Indian state of Kerala for the first time. I went there to seek help after a fall on the pathway, stumblingContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: From her cocoon of anonymity, when life forced Anie Siva, then an 18-year-old woman to sell lemonade and ice cream to tourists in Kerala’s Varkala, she never thought she would one day be a police inspector of the same town. Congratulating her for her success, the Kerala Police tweeted,Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, June 27, 2020: As part of a covert operation to crack down against online child sexual abuse material, the Kerala Police have arrested 47 people, including young professionals in the state. In total, 89 cases have been filed as part of the raids on June 27. “There has beenContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Jan 15, 2020: The Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Christian denomination in Kerala, alleges that Islamic State has lured scores of Christian women from the southern Indian state to be used in terror activities. “Love jihad is a reality,” asserted the Church’s synod that on JanuaryContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Kochi, April 9, 2019: First time in the history of the Catholic Church in India, a bishop will be tried in a court for allegedly raping a nun. The Kerala police on April 9 submitted a chargesheet in the Magistrate Court in Palai against Bishop Franco MulakkalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottayam: A police team in Kerala investigating the alleged rape of a nun by a bishop plans to seek permission to conduct a polygraph test on the accused prelate. A court on September 22 sent Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar to police custody for two days.Continue Reading
Kannur: A controversy has kicked up in Kerala, southern India, over the mysterious death of 33-year-old Latvian national. A highly decomposed body of Liga Skromane with severed head was discovered on April 20 near the banks of Karamana River in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The 33-year-old woman had gone missingContinue Reading
Kottayam: You may suddenly come across a bunch of students looking for the elusive X in a mathematical problem at this police station. Step in and you will find more students taking lessons in science. Welcome to the Karukachal station house where the police is literally reaching out and servingContinue Reading
Sreedeep Alavil from Kannur district in the southern India state of Kerala has been chosen to the coveted Google Hall of Fame. Sreedeep was given the recognition for spotting a bug known as Cross-site Scripting (XSS), wherein a hacker can execute malicious scripts to a legitimate website or web applications.Continue Reading
Kochi: Kerala, the state with the highest sex ratio in the country has decided to set up a women’s battalion in its Police force with its headquarters either in Thiruvananthapuram or Kannur. This decision, by the state cabinet on Wednesday is part of increasing the strength of women in policeContinue Reading
