Kuttanad

A farmer died by suicide in the Kuttanad region in this southern district on Saturday allegedly due to financial problems as he did not get payment for paddy procurement.

In the Kerala backwaters in Kuttanad, a 50-year-old boatman is ferrying essential commodities including rice and grains, to around 60 families on an island here, who have been left with no mode of transportation after the coronavirus lockdown.

In the Kerala backwaters in Kuttanad, a 50-year-old boatman is ferrying essential commodities including rice and grains, to around 60 families on an island here, who have been left with no mode of transportation after the coronavirus lockdown.

After first denying permission for Saraswati Puja to a group of North Indian students studying in Cochin University College of Engineering in Kuttanad, the university has now allowed them to conduct the puja, including visarjan.

Two young bureaucrats were at the helm of coordinating the administrative efforts in Kerala's flood-hit Chengannur when the district was cut off and inundated. At the same time 2 lakh people had to be evacuated from Kuttanad almost simultaneously. The bureaucrats' efforts have paid off and lakhs of people are finally set to return to Kuttanad in Ke...

As flood waters rose to engulf their homes at Kainakary, a picturesque village in Alappuzha district, at least 20 families took refuge in a church cemetery and are living in the company of the dead with their domestic animals.

A controversy that began over beef cutlets a week ago has led to an indefinite shutdown of the Cochin University College of Engineering in Kerala's Kuttanad. Around 200 students, mostly from outside the state, today boycotted internal examinations and protested outside the vice-chancellor's office on the university's main campus located 80 kilometr...

Over 2000 homes have been damaged and almost 50 per cent of the crops have been destroyed in Kuttanad after it was hit by the worst floods the area has seen in the last seven years, official estimates show. Adding to the woes of the residents is the lack of clean drinking water here.

A farmer died by suicide in the Kuttanad region in this southern district on Saturday allegedly due to financial problems as he did not get payment for paddy procurement.

In the Kerala backwaters in Kuttanad, a 50-year-old boatman is ferrying essential commodities including rice and grains, to around 60 families on an island here, who have been left with no mode of transportation after the coronavirus lockdown.

In the Kerala backwaters in Kuttanad, a 50-year-old boatman is ferrying essential commodities including rice and grains, to around 60 families on an island here, who have been left with no mode of transportation after the coronavirus lockdown.

After first denying permission for Saraswati Puja to a group of North Indian students studying in Cochin University College of Engineering in Kuttanad, the university has now allowed them to conduct the puja, including visarjan.

Two young bureaucrats were at the helm of coordinating the administrative efforts in Kerala's flood-hit Chengannur when the district was cut off and inundated. At the same time 2 lakh people had to be evacuated from Kuttanad almost simultaneously. The bureaucrats' efforts have paid off and lakhs of people are finally set to return to Kuttanad in Ke...

As flood waters rose to engulf their homes at Kainakary, a picturesque village in Alappuzha district, at least 20 families took refuge in a church cemetery and are living in the company of the dead with their domestic animals.

A controversy that began over beef cutlets a week ago has led to an indefinite shutdown of the Cochin University College of Engineering in Kerala's Kuttanad. Around 200 students, mostly from outside the state, today boycotted internal examinations and protested outside the vice-chancellor's office on the university's main campus located 80 kilometr...

Over 2000 homes have been damaged and almost 50 per cent of the crops have been destroyed in Kuttanad after it was hit by the worst floods the area has seen in the last seven years, official estimates show. Adding to the woes of the residents is the lack of clean drinking water here.