SF Specials

Unassisted, and on the edge: The dark side of Kerala’s growing home birth movement
More explosive than Empuraan: Kerala’s bold films that took on real-life incidents and slapped the system
Two movements, decades apart: UoH protest rekindles Silent Valley memories

11 FIRs over HCU row: 56 students named, 2 in custody; 4 cases against BRS leader, 1 against media platform
Kerala’s pro-Christian parties squirm as Munambam erupts in ‘Hail Modi’ chants after Lok Sabha passes Waqf Bill
Investigation: Romanticising ‘hyped’ organic farming will not feed Kerala, it needs fertilisers
South First journalist released after being detained while covering student protest at University of Hyderabad
Politics over Bandipur’s wildlife: Priyanka Gandhi, two states and a traffic ban
On drug trail: As Kerala battles to snap supply lines, where do narcotics come from?
Land, law, and loss: The controversy behind Hyderabad Central University’s disputed lands
Explainer: Is the 4 percent reservation in Karnataka for backwards class Muslim contractors based on religion?
Humanitarian practice-turned-taint: The rise and fall of ‘nokkukooli’
Broken promise: Over 2 lakh posts in Karnataka government departments lie vacant
“Neither RSS nor BJP is fascist,” says Tamil Nadu CPI(M) Secretary P Shanmugam
Kerala’s thin veil of progressiveness hides an unspoken Brahmanical oligarchy in temples
The brave, the beaten, the forgotten: The ordinary rebels of Vaikom Satyagraham
Beyond ‘Mrs’: The women who shaped the Vaikom Satyagraha
Dravidian defiance: How Tamil Nadu shaped India’s language fight
First among equals: CPI(M) may exempt Pinarayi Vijayan from age-limit norm
Exclusive: Indian aircraft maintenance engineers ‘grounded’ by Netherlands; seek MEA help
Kerala’s ‘stoned’ generation: ‘Cooks’ make merry as drugs spur youth to crime
Stalin’s Mudhalvar Marundhagam trumps Modi’s Jan Aushadhi Kendras in Tamil Nadu
Ground Report: Caught between survival and desperation, workers refuse to re-enter SLBC tunnel
How Trump’s victory over 12,000 km away shut down India’s first transgender clinic in Hyderabad
Tamil Nadu’s battle against Hindi imposition: A legacy of resistance
Dreams at half price: How a charismatic NGO worker pulled off Kerala’s biggest financial fraud
South First impact: Tamil Nadu panchayat leader arrested for caste discrimination; four still at large
Unpaid wages, rigid rules, and low pay: What’s killing MGNREGS in Kerala?

Latest News

Andhra chainsaw attack survivor receiving treatment at Bengaluru hospital shifted to general ward

Kerala police arrest man accused of running drug network using youngsters to move MDMA from Bengaluru

Krupa Alva — Karnataka ‘sting operation’ case: Cyber crime police question expelled Congress leader Kripa Alva

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy. Credit: x.com/revanth_anumula — Telangana Congress: Delayed appointments and the challenge of sustaining cadre morale

‘Neither a big rift nor a small rift’: Shivakumar rejects talk of friction with Siddaramaiah amid ‘sting operation’ row

Palnadu tops Andhra Pradesh in patient feedback on government health centres; Kurnool, Anantapur at the bottom

Andhra Pradesh announces 2026–27 Liquor Policy — Keralam revokes Nedumbassery airport bar licence approval after row

Telangana records widest gender gap in protein-food diversity; Kerala leads South in protein spending: SBI report

Top News

Karnataka stands by tests showing excessive ethanol in petrol; Minister Arshad slams OMCs’ ‘contradictory’ statements

AP ZPTC and MPTC polls: YSRCP holds ground in Agency districts amid NDA sweep; Naidu blames ‘forced conversions’

Chandrababu Naidu — Mandate better than 2024: ‘People have endorsed alliance governance,’ says CM Chandrababu Naidu on local body poll results

Unpacking Keralam’s GNA row: The deal, Himachal offer and the questions in between

Sexual assault. Representative image. — Kerala police arrest 21-year-old man for alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl at Halloween party in Aluva

Coimbatore Periyar Arivulagam — Writers, publishers allege procurement irregularities at Coimbatore Periyar Arivulagam; seek High Court-monitored probe

Mammootty and BJP leader B Gopalakrishnan. — ‘Friendship above politics’: BJP leader Gopalakrishnan defends Mammootty amid online attacks

14 arrested, two absconding in alleged death certificate fraud in Telangana