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Dr Charles Panackel

Dr Charles Panackel

Senior Consultant in Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Aster Medcity, Cochin

Why India needs greater awareness of liver health and its silent deterioration due to chronic hepatitis

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Andhra Pradesh Excise department. — Midnight rule relaxed: Andhra Pradesh eases burden on excise staff after tragic incident

An image from a poll rally in Thiruvananthapuram. (RajeevRC.FB) — 5 May: A potential inflection point in India’s political landscape

Lightning strikes in different parts of Tamil Nadu resulted in 5 deaths. (Wikimedia Commons) — Weather update: Forecast for Southern cities on 27 April

K C Venugopal, V D Satheesan and Ramesh Chennithala — No post announced, yet three Congress leaders line up for Kerala CM chair

The gol-matol trap: how India’s love for chubby children builds a generation of obese adults

Unstructured play is active development. (iStock) — Summer holidays disturb children’s sleep, behaviour patterns; doctors say free play is key

Representational image. Credit: iStock — Kerala leads India in abortions, and half of them happen in public hospitals

TDP supporters disrupt comedian’s Bengaluru show over two-year-old remarks on Naidu, Lokesh

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Actress Ashu Reddy. Credit: facebook.com/Ashureddyofcl — Tollywood actress Ashu Reddy booked in honey-trap case over alleged Rs 9.35 crore fraud

AI-generated representational image. — Kerala’s changing heat landscape: Urban expansion fuels crisis yet to be fully mapped

Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni moves Karnataka HC against murder conviction, life sentence

Hyderabad Metro. Credit: iStock — Telangana accelerates Hyderabad Metro Phase-I takeover from L&T

Heat — Karnataka government directs health facilities to set up ‘heat stroke management rooms’

The Hussain Sagar lake filled with rain water — 150 years of performance: Swan Lake, the triumph of a classical ballet and its composer

Invoking anti-terror legislation against digital media represents a disturbing escalation with far-reaching implications for freedom of expression. — Criminalising media: How the Telangana government is copying the BJP playbook

Before singing the hymn, Naveen Mohan spoke about the secular nature of the place. (Pic: Nandagovindam Bhajans) — Payasam, masala and a song: How a thank-you gesture became Kerala’s latest faith debate