Thiruvananthapuram: The ongoing efforts to secure the release of Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya from death row in Yemen have sparked a wave of reactions in Kerala, particularly against the involvement of prominent Islamic cleric Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar.

Due to continuous heavy rainfall over the past few days, a landslide occurred in the Amemmar locality of Pudu village in Farangipete, damaging a house and disrupting local life.

The recently released NCERT Class 8 Social Science textbook has stirred controversy for reportedly omitting events from India’s colonial period and key historical figures, including Tipu Sultan, Haidar Ali, and the four Anglo-Mysore Wars of 1700s, which once featured prominently in earlier editions.

Heavy rains that have lashed Mangaluru city over the past two days have led to several incidents of damage and disruption. 

A major landslide occurred early Thursday morning at Mannagundi near Kaukradi village in Uppinangady, disrupting traffic on the Mangaluru–Bengaluru National Highway. 

A shocking case of murder has been reported from Thekkaru village in Belthangady taluk on Thursday morning.

A collaborative team of international and Indian researchers has uncovered evidence of a 4,000-year-old human settlement in Maski, a town in Karnataka’s Raichur district, reported Deccan Herald on Thursday.

The Uttarakhand government has made the recitation of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita shlokas compulsory in morning assemblies across all government schools in the state.