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Palakkad,Kerala: Blue Whale’ Suicide online game, which has claimed hundreds of lives across the world, has been downloaded over 2,000 times by mobile phone users in Kerala, the police have said. The dangerous game’s rising popularity among Keralite teenagers was brought to the attention of the authorities by online advertisement agencies. Apart from directing them toContinue Reading

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Palakkad,Kerala: While the State is celebrating 100th anniversary of community feast Panthibhojanam initiated by social reformer Sahodaran Ayyappan to fight caste-based discriminations, a Tamil speaking Dalit colony at Govindapuram, near here, is accusing caste Hindus of the neighborhood of practising untouchability. As residents of Ambedkar colony in the village sharingContinue Reading

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Palakkad,Kerala: “Those were the days when rains come unexpectedly over the deep interiors of Attappady and lasted for several hours. People did not lend umbrellas to strangers, especially tribal schoolchildren returning home. I used to take refuge under some canopy till the rains were over,” recalled B. Lakshmi of theContinue Reading

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Cinema was not exactly Sr Jiya’s field of expertise. She never learnt the craft of film making, didn’t plan to be associated with the industry or even bothered to spend much time watching films. Yet here she is… as the writer-director of a full-length Malayalam feature film. ‘Ente Vellithooval’, the two-and-a-half hour long film which is allContinue Reading