Kerala Girl Found

Naegleria fowleri, a tiny organism found in warm freshwater, can enter the body through the nose when people swim or dive in contaminated water.

More than 21 hours after a six-year-old girl was kidnapped from Pooyappally in southern Kerala a day ago, the child was found abandoned, but safe, in a public ground here on Tuesday afternoon.

A partially decomposed body of a newborn baby girl was found in a swampy area alongside a road near Thiruvalla in this district, police said on Sunday.

A five-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and strangled to death by a man who had just moved into their building in Kerala's Ernakulam district.

Police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a murder of a 17-year-old girl who was allegedly found hanging inside a Madrassa library in Kerala's Balarampuram city earlier this month.

An 18-year girl, allegedly repeatedly sexually abused by relatives, was found dead at her residence in Kerala's Thenhipalam today.

Hours after the mother of two minor girls who were found dead in suspicious circumstances in 2017 announced that she would contest against the Kerala Chief Minister at Dharmadam in the April 6 assembly polls, Pinarayi Vijayan said his government had always stood by her and never hurt her.

In a crucial development, the Kerala High Court ordered a retrial in a rape and death case of two minor sisters in 2017 in Walayar. The girls were 13 and 9-years-old at the time and were from the scheduled caste community. Both sisters were sexually assaulted, police said, and were found hanging two months apart.

Seven-year-old Devananda, whose body was found in a lake, was laid to rest at Kudavattoor in the Kollam district of Kerala on Friday evening.

On Saturday night, a police officer in the hilly, tourist town of Munnar in Kerala got a strange alarm call: a baby has been found crawling in the middle of the road near a forest.

The body of a 16-year-old girl, who went missing two weeks ago, was found inside a well in Thiruvananthapuram district and police have arrested her mother and lover from Tamil Nadu.

A seven-year-old was murdered after being raped allegedly by a relative in Kerala's Kollam. The girl's body was found in a rubber estate in Kulathupuzha, about 60 km from state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

A 9-year-old girl suffering from blood cancer has tested positive for HIV allegedly after getting a transfusion of infected blood, the police said today.

A 10-year-old girl found hanging at her home in Kerala's Kollam in January had been raped and beaten up. Doctors who conducted her autopsy counted over 20 injury marks on her body, some of them on her private parts. The autopsy findings have come as a shock to people in the locality, 60km from Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram.

A village in Kerala's Palakkad district got a huge shock when 9-year-old girl was found hanging in her home last week. A postmortem examination revealed that she had been sexually abused. Exactly 52 days ago, her elder sister, a 14-year-old, was seen hanging at the same spot. The police said she had been sexually abused as well. The investigation i...

Naegleria fowleri, a tiny organism found in warm freshwater, can enter the body through the nose when people swim or dive in contaminated water.

More than 21 hours after a six-year-old girl was kidnapped from Pooyappally in southern Kerala a day ago, the child was found abandoned, but safe, in a public ground here on Tuesday afternoon.

A partially decomposed body of a newborn baby girl was found in a swampy area alongside a road near Thiruvalla in this district, police said on Sunday.

A five-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and strangled to death by a man who had just moved into their building in Kerala's Ernakulam district.

Police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with a murder of a 17-year-old girl who was allegedly found hanging inside a Madrassa library in Kerala's Balarampuram city earlier this month.

An 18-year girl, allegedly repeatedly sexually abused by relatives, was found dead at her residence in Kerala's Thenhipalam today.

Hours after the mother of two minor girls who were found dead in suspicious circumstances in 2017 announced that she would contest against the Kerala Chief Minister at Dharmadam in the April 6 assembly polls, Pinarayi Vijayan said his government had always stood by her and never hurt her.

In a crucial development, the Kerala High Court ordered a retrial in a rape and death case of two minor sisters in 2017 in Walayar. The girls were 13 and 9-years-old at the time and were from the scheduled caste community. Both sisters were sexually assaulted, police said, and were found hanging two months apart.

Seven-year-old Devananda, whose body was found in a lake, was laid to rest at Kudavattoor in the Kollam district of Kerala on Friday evening.

On Saturday night, a police officer in the hilly, tourist town of Munnar in Kerala got a strange alarm call: a baby has been found crawling in the middle of the road near a forest.

The body of a 16-year-old girl, who went missing two weeks ago, was found inside a well in Thiruvananthapuram district and police have arrested her mother and lover from Tamil Nadu.

A seven-year-old was murdered after being raped allegedly by a relative in Kerala's Kollam. The girl's body was found in a rubber estate in Kulathupuzha, about 60 km from state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

A 9-year-old girl suffering from blood cancer has tested positive for HIV allegedly after getting a transfusion of infected blood, the police said today.

A 10-year-old girl found hanging at her home in Kerala's Kollam in January had been raped and beaten up. Doctors who conducted her autopsy counted over 20 injury marks on her body, some of them on her private parts. The autopsy findings have come as a shock to people in the locality, 60km from Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram.

A village in Kerala's Palakkad district got a huge shock when 9-year-old girl was found hanging in her home last week. A postmortem examination revealed that she had been sexually abused. Exactly 52 days ago, her elder sister, a 14-year-old, was seen hanging at the same spot. The police said she had been sexually abused as well. The investigation i...