Calicut (Kozhikode)

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The Air India Express flight from Dubai with 190 people on board, including a six-member crew, overshot the tabletop runway during landing at the Kozhikode airport amid heavy rains on August 7, 2020. (PTI file photo)

Kozhikode crash: final compensation to all injured flyers, next of kin of deceased

Air India Express paid the interim compensation to the injured persons and the next of kin of the deceased persons by September 2020

08 Aug 2021 11:37 AM

Officials stand on the debris of the Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing in Kozhikode. (PTI)

Kozhikode air crash: 53-year-old Wayanad man succumbs to his injuries; death toll now at 20

The flight from Dubai with 190 people onboard overshot the tabletop runway at the Karipur airport and fell into a valley.

22 Aug 2020 7:39 PM

Officials stand on the debris of the Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing in Kozhikode, Kerala state, India, Saturday. (PTI)

Kozhikode crash: In July, DGCA issued notice to airport over safety lapses

Air India Express said on Saturday that three relief flights had been arranged to Kozhikode

08 Aug 2020 2:12 PM

Air India Express flight with 191 on board crashes during landing at Kozhikode airport

As per reports, the incident took place around 7.45 pm amid heavy rainfall.

07 Aug 2020 9:09 PM

File photo of Major Abdul Rahim of the Afghan army who received a transplant of hands from a Kerala accident victim.

Afghan solder with ‘Kerala hands’ dies in bomb blast

Major Abdul Rahim received a transplant of hands from Kerala accident victim T G Joseph

29 Feb 2020 3:07 PM

'Mr Amit Shah and Mr Narendra Modi live in their own imagination. They have no contact with the outside world. They live in their own world and they fantasise about things. That is why the country is in such trouble,' Rahul said. (Photo: File)

'Country in trouble as PM Modi, Shah live in imaginary world': Rahul Gandhi

The Cong leader was responding to a query on the government's claim that there was no financial crisis in the country.

05 Dec 2019 12:00 PM

Kerala police Chief Loknath Behra on Saturday expressed satisfaction over the ongoing probe into the case relating to the mysterious deaths of six members of a family near here. (Representational Image)

Probe into deaths of family members going on well: Kerala DGP

The SIT is probing the case after receiving a complaint from Roy's US based brother, Rojo, over the six deaths between 2002-20.

12 Oct 2019 2:08 PM

Nearly two weeks after the parliament approved the Triple Talaq Bill, Kozhikode Police on Friday arrested a man for giving his wife instant talaq here. (Representational Image)

In a first, Kerala records arrest over triple talaq after Parliament cleared Bill

According to the victim, Usman took her abroad after their marriage and started abusing and assaulting her.

16 Aug 2019 8:49 PM

An aerial view of flood-hit areas of Cochin International Airport in Kerala on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Flood-hit Kerala will see all faiths celebrating Id together in camps

Not only in Thiruthiyad, but all the relief camps in the Malabar region are on with special Id celebration programmes.

12 Aug 2019 5:20 AM

IMD has issued a yellow alert in the state till June 13 with an exception of June 12 when the state has been issued an orange alert once again. (Photo: Pixabay | Representational)

Kerala: Rain lashes parts of Kozhikode

‘Widespread rainfall with heavy to very heavy falls are expected at isolated spaces on June 9,’ IMD has raised an orange alert.

09 Jun 2019 7:10 PM

The Gandhi scion hugged her and held her hand when Vavathil and her family came to meet him at a guest house here in the morning. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

Rahul Gandhi meets Rajamma during thanksgiving visit to Wayanad

As a trainee nurse, Vavathil had taken care of Gandhi at Delhi's Holy Family Hospital after his birth on June 19, 1970.

09 Jun 2019 1:02 PM

'The threat call was received from an international number, suspected to be from the Gulf. According the complaint, the caller used threatening and demeaning words against Gafoor, a police official said. (Photo: File I Representational)

Muslim education group chief receives death threat over ban on face-covering attire

The circular read: any attire, which is unacceptable in public society, can't be allowed, even in the name of modernity or religious ritual.

04 May 2019 4:09 PM

This is Prime Minister's first election rally in Kerala, that will go to the polls in the third phase on April 23. (Image: ANI twitter)

LDF, UDF failed people of Kerala despite dominating state politics for decades: Modi

'BJP Karyakarthas have been attacked and killed in Kerala for serving the people,' Modi said.

12 Apr 2019 8:48 PM

Gandhi might be accompanied by his sister and AICC in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress sources told PTI. (Photo: PTI)

Rahul to file nomination from Wayanad on Apr 4; Priyanka may accompany

Tight security is in place in Kozhikode and Wayanad districts in view of the high-profile visits.

03 Apr 2019 4:47 PM

After the virus was reported in Malappuram, a special medical team had been deputed the area. (Representational Image)

6 year-old boy dies of West Nile fever in Kerala

A six-year-old boy, who was undergoing treatment for vector-borne West Nile fever, died at a hospital in Kerala on Monday.

18 Mar 2019 3:50 PM

Melsanthi Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri opens the Sabarimala temple for the five-day monthly pooja in the Malayalam month of 'Thulam', Sabarimala on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Sabarimala Temple visit: Some fired, others forced to quit job

The 32-year old Reshma is mulling to climb Sabarimala in the company of a few other women Ayyappa swamis.

18 Oct 2018 5:21 AM

Rescue workers and local people engage in rescue works at landslide seen at Kattippara in Kozhikode on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Rain in Kerala continues to wreak havoc, death toll rises to 45

The death toll rose to 45 on Friday with the recovery of the body of a baby girl and a teenaged boy being washed away in flash floods.

16 Jun 2018 11:23 AM

Kerala Health Minister K K Shylaja Teacher has lauded the role of doctors and their quick response and efforts in handling the cases. (Photo: Venugopal)

Amid deadly Nipah outbreak, Kerala doctors the real heroes on ground

Two samples which initially tested positive for Nipah virus have now been tested negative, Kerala health officials said.

07 Jun 2018 5:26 PM

Of the 12 bodies, eight were Nipah positive cases and four were suspected cases which later turned out to be negative. (Photo: PTI)

Kerala doctor volunteers to perform final rites of 12 bodies infected with Nipah virus

So far, 12 people have died of the virus – 14 in Kozhikode and three in neighbouring Malappuram since its outbreak last month.

06 Jun 2018 3:58 PM

Nipah Virus has claimed 16 lives in Kerala since traces of the virus were first reported from Kozhikode towards the end of May. (Photo: Pixabay)

Fruit bat samples from Kerala test negative for Nipah virus

Earlier, samples of cattle, goats, pigs, and insect bats that were sent were also tested negative.

03 Jun 2018 10:47 AM

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