Keralas once-in-a-lifetime rainfall was 2,378 mm over 88 days, four times more than normal -- but 30 per cent less and spread over 61 days more than the deluge of 1924, the most intense flood in the states recorded history, submerging as it did almost the entire coastline. ...
When one of the rulers of Travancore, now a part of the southern Indian state of Kerala, handed over the reins of his territory to Lord Padmanabha, the presiding deity of Thiruvananthapuram, and undertook to take care of it in the Lords name, his idea was that he had assumed even greater responsibility as he was answerable to the Almighty...
Minha's parents are still thanking God for sending most unexpected help when they decided to leave their flooded home in Kerala with their seven-month-old girl amid a menacing sea of water....
Major Hemant Raj from the Indian Army's 28 Madras Sapth Shakti Command loves action, even when on leave. His visuals have gone viral where he is shown organising tonnes of relief material in Chengannur, Kerala....
The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has warned that the children from the Rohingya Muslim minority are facing the danger of becoming a "lost generation"....
Inequality and lack of access to public goods and services has been the bane of Indian society for centuries. But never has it been as stark as it is today, with 10 per cent of India's richest families owning 56 per cent of the total national income, according to the World Inequality Report....
He lacked parliamentary majority but nevertheless made the bid to form a government and become Prime Minister -- an ambition that he had long nurtured but which seemed elusive despite being in public life as a popular leader for long....
For long the voice of Opposition, Somnath Chatterjee was the first Communist Speaker of the Lok Sabha and one who defied his party and refused to quit the post over the Indo-US nuclear deal in 2008, leading to his expulsion from the CPI-M....
There is little doubt that in the wake of M. Karunanidhis death, Tamil Nadu will enter an uncertain, even rocky, phase. It may take some time for the sense of disquiet and foreboding to become apparent. There may even be a period of relative calm as Karunanidhis chosen heir, his younger son, M.K. Stalin, assumes charge of the Dravida...
The brutal murder of veteran journalist-cum-activist Gauri Lankesh at her home in Bengaluru, 11 months ago on September 5, 2017, shocked the nation and stirred the people's conscience on the safety of men and women of ideas in the country....
