Kerala  

The week-long ICFFK will see 144 movies, ranging from new ones to classics, being screened. Kairali, Sree, Nila, Kalabhavan, Tagore Theatre, and Nishagandhi will be the venues in Kerala
 

As the boy showed symptoms like being scared of lights and reluctance to drink water for some days, his parents thought that the boy was affected by some spirit. So the couple took the boy to a black magic practitioner in Kerala

Presently, in Kerala, the board that lists the names of police officers is printed in English. Certain police stations are also named in English. 

A group of 30 members, in the first phase, will reach Bhubaneswar, Odisha, on Saturday from Palakkad, Kerala. According to sources, the Kerala State Electricity Board has decided to send 200 people from the team to Odisha. 

Kerala chief electoral officer Teeka Ram Meena asked Kannur district collector to take action against the presiding officer, micro-observer and first polling officer
 

The accused teacher is identified as Nishad V Muhammad of GHSS Neeleswaram School in Kozhikode, Kerala. Nishad, while confessing to the crime, said that he was only helping the students, who had learning disabilities. 

The elder of the two boys in Thodupuzha, Kerala who were allegedly attacked by their stepfather, succumbed to injuries on April 6.  The incident occurred 10 days ago while the boy was trying to protect his younger brother from being beaten up by Anand, his stepfather. 

Pala judicial first class magistrate court has extended the bail of the Kerala nun rape case accused Franco Mulakkal. 

 

The hearing of the case has been extended to June 7. A copy of the charge sheet, which is over 2,000 pages, and other documents were handed over to the accused. 

The article written in Kerala Congress (M)'s mouthpiece Prathichaya by editor Kurias Kumbalakuzhu says that everybody in the party was jealous and scared of late leader KM Mani. He has also said in the article that everybody tried to destroy Mani and after 50 years they succeeded with the bar bribery scam

 

Civil police officer Vaisakh had earlier posted a video message on a WhatsApp group of police personnel. The voice message was that of Vaisakh asking another policeman to give him the postal ballots, which had to be handed over to a pro-CPM police association leader.

Idukki Police arrested the culprits on Wednesday based on the complaint filed by the child's grandmother

Kerala health minister KK Shailaja intervened and took action based on a Facebook comment, to help a one-day-old baby. 
 

May 9 is the birth anniversary of Sri Shankaracharya, the proponent of Advaita philosophy. He is known to be an itinerant monk who went on preaching about oneness of the world. He also set up four monasteries in the four different directions to enable spiritual seekers

The Supreme Court has ordered to demolish 500 flats in Kochi, Kerala, while adopting zero tolerance towards construction in the prohibited Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ)