Govindan Namboothiri

KOCHI: Well-known exponent of 'Chakiarkoothu', Ammanoor Madhava Chakiyar has won this year's Kalakulapathi award instituted by Kaladarpanam, a forum of art lovers.

A primary schoolteacher in Kannur has been suspended on charges of sexually abusing minor girls in class.

An RTI reply from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to activist K Govindan Namboothiry stated that 474 elephants were electrocuted in the country from 2014 to 2020. Maximum deaths were reported in 2018 at 81, while the average, yearly figure was 70 every year until then.

The state government — which skirted RTI and assembly queries on expenditure of official foreign trips by the chief minister — has also been ‘collecting information’ on the foreign trips made by cabinet ministers and the expenses it incurred from 2016

In the past six years, pipelines of the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) in the limits of its Muvattupuzha division burst 10,456 times and the KWA had to shell out Rs 3.84 crore to repair the pipeline. This indicates how much water and money is being lost due to the inefficiency of the KWA.

In a reply to an RTI application, Kochi corporation says that around 80% of drains in the central city area and other two zones function effectively.

With the arrest of a jeep driver — who allegedly molested a 16-year-old national handball player at Vayakara under Peringome police limits on Friday — there is increased concern over the safety of minor girls as well as the future of such cases.

The state government has issued an order for immediate release of relief grant for the family of the 91 missing fishermen in the Ockhi cyclone.