Remembering Thankamani: A movie poster brings back haunting memories of a horrid incident in a Kerala village
The police atrocity at Thankamani brought women's organisation in the state to a common platform for the first time.
This first-of-its-kind study in Kerala sheds light on ways to prevent stroke recurrence
The study highlights the role of community health workers in educating patients and their families to adhere to medication and...
Hospital associated infections — a missing piece in Kerala’s antimicrobial resistance puzzle
Going by the data from the Kerala Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network’s Annual Report 2023, AMR is increasing in the coastal...
Discussing sex, but not in hushed tones: Kerala launches comprehensive sexuality education programme
It targets teenagers by giving them an understanding of cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality.
On National Broadcasting Day, here is a peek at the origins of the Trivandrum Broadcasting Service
National Broadcasting Day is observed on 23 July every year to commemorate the first-ever radio broadcast from the Bombay Station...
Quack hunt in Kerala: How a group of doctors and medical students is going after charlatans in the state
'Quack Hunt' was launched on 24 June. And it is already tasting success, with complaints about quacks pouring in.
Before Hibi Eden: How the United State of Travancore and Cochin quelled demand for shifting capital
Ernakulam MP Hibi Eden was not the first to demand that Kerala's capital should be shifted from Thiruvananthapuram to Ernakulam.
How a Kerala library’s ‘Padam Pootha Kaalam’ initiative has ushered in a spring of knowledge
Bapuji Smaraka Vayanasala at Perumkulam in Kollam is collecting used textbooks and distributing them among students who cannot afford to...
It’s Kappa Day! All about how tapioca evolved from famine food to everyday staple
Brought by the Portuguese, the story of Kerala's favourite staple food — tapioca — is one with many twists and...
Cadaver organ donation: With social media abuzz about unscrupulous practices, Kerala plans counter-campaign
A recent court order sparked the social media buzz over unscrupulous practices in the cadaver transplantation process.
