The Latest Breaking News from Ernakulam

Gym told members paying Rs 15,000 can train at any branch, denied access when moved to another city; franchise ordered to pay Rs 19,400

A gym member who paid Rs 15,500 expecting nationwide access to training was denied entry at a franchise branch in another city after relocating, with the parent company and franchise blaming each other over a failed transfer. The Ernakulam consumer commission ruled in his favour, ordering both to jointly pay…

The Economic Times · Sep 12

How Fruit Bats in Kerala Triggered India's 2018 Nipah Outbreak and What It Revealed About Zoonotic Spillover

The Kozhikode Cluster That Alarmed EpidemiologistsIn May 2018, seventeen people died in Kozhikode district within weeks of each other. The deaths came fast and with alarming symptoms: sudden fever, disorientation, and in several cases, acute encephalitis. The Kerala health department, working with the National Institute of Virology in Pune, confirmed…

Times Life · Aug 23

Kerala Weather Today: Orange alert in Kasaragod, Kannur, Ernakulam, Idukki, Kottayam, Alappuzha and more; check IMD forecast

Kerala Rain Alert: Kerala anticipates widespread rainfall starting Thursday, with intensified showers expected. The India Meteorological Department issued orange alerts for seven districts due to heavy rainfall. Northern Kerala may experience extremely heavy showers, prompting vigilance in vulnerable areas. Schools and colleges are closed in several taluks as a precautionary…

The Economic Times · Aug 6

Dileep verdict: Editorials question ‘patriarchal elements’, decision to welcome back actor

Earlier this week, the Additional Special Sessions Court in Ernakulam delivered its verdict in a case that became one of Kerala’s most closely watched trials in recent memory. After a five-year trial, actor Dileep, accused of masterminding the abduction and sexual assault of an actor, was found not guilty in…

Newslaundry · Dec 10, 2025

Before today’s verdict: The Dileep–Kerala actor assault case in a nutshell

On December 8, a Sessions court in Ernakulam, Kerala, will pronounce the verdict in the case of a well-known south Indian actor who was sexually assaulted in Kochi in 2017. The trial has reached its denouement after eight years of twists and turns, amid intense media scrutiny and industry-wide debate…

Newslaundry · Dec 8, 2025

Celebrating accused men, shaming survivors: The rhetoric of Kerala MRAs

The Ernakulam sub-jail erupted in cheers and a shower of flowers as Pulsar Suni, the prime accused in the 2017 Kerala actor assault case, walked free on September 20, 2024. After spending 7.5 years behind bars, Suni, a man accused of rape, was granted bail by the Supreme Court. A grand welcome…

Newslaundry · Jun 20, 2025

In Kerala’s immigration crackdown, a seven-year-old torn from her home and family

Seven-year-old Shahida had no idea her world was about to change that Tuesday in February. One moment she was with her parents in Cherai, a beach town in Kerala’s Ernakulam; the next, she was separated from them and put in a police jeep with her two brothers- all without any…

Newslaundry · Apr 29, 2025

Far from home, away from EVMs: Jharkhand’s migrant tribal workers

Lakhan Oraon, a construction worker in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, has plans to visit his hometown in Lohardaga, west of Ranchi, the state capital of Jharkhand, only in December this year around the time of Christmas. The first phase of Assembly elections in the state is scheduled to begin on Wednesday,…

Newslaundry · Nov 11, 2024

Denied safe abortion practices, migrant women in Kerala are self-administering pills

This is the second in a four-part series where TNM surveys the lived realities of the migrant communities in Kerala.

Newslaundry · Sep 12, 2024

Unattended and vulnerable: Children of Kerala’s migrant communities face many risks

This is part one of a four-part series by The News Minute on lived realities of migrant communities in Kerala.

Newslaundry · Sep 10, 2024