Kerala  

Deceased co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar of the ill-fated Air India Express flight that crash-landed in Calicut was to become a father in the next 15-17 days

Captain DV Sathe along with his co-pilot and 16 passengers lost their lives when the Air India Express Boeing 737 from Dubai to Kozhikode (Calicut) overshot the runway at Karipur airport on Friday

Air India Express IX 344 aircraft that landed at Kozhikode International Airport skidded off the runway, leaving passengers injured.

During interrogation, accused Rameez told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that Swapna converted to Islam in Qatar and was married again

Kerala's second plasma bank has been set up at the Wayanad district hospital at nearby Mananthavady, close on the heels of a similar facility being launched at Manjeri in Malappuram.

Doctors who had come from Kerala to Maharashtra at the government’s bidding are returning as the BMC has not paid them their salaries 
 

A Catholic priest who was punished for raping and impregnating a 16-year-old agreed to marry the victim
 

Kerala gold smuggling case suspects Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair were arrested while they were planning to move to Nagaland.

Manish Tewari, a Congress leader has said that the health system in Delhi, ruled by AAP has only gone from bad to worse.

A bail condition of 1 million dollars has been set for police officer Derek Chauvin for having killed George Floyd.

MC Josephine, Kerala State Women’s Commission chairperson is in the eye of a storm for her comments that her party CPI(M) is both a court and a police station

While the country is yet to come to terms with what happened to a pregnant elephant in Kerala, here is another shocker

 The Kerala forest department has made the first arrest in the elephant fruit-bombing case 
 

In 2016, during the zero hour in the parliament, Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar had raised the issue about animal cruelty and appealed to amend The Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act (PCA)

 BJP MP Maneka Gandhi has hit out at the callous attitude of those who fed an elephant with pineapple, laced with explosives.  
 

A priest was caught having sex with a woman in front of the altar in a Kerala church. He was caught by people who suspected the lady’s movement. At least 25 COVID-19 patients, who are in a semi-critical condition at Pune's government-run Sassoon General Hospital, will be administered tocilizumab, a drug which has proven effective in treating the infection. Its cost is Rs 25000!