Malayalam film director P. Balachandrakumar, a key witness in the 2017 actor assault and abduction case in Kerala, died at 5:40 am on Friday at a private hospital in Chengannur, Kerala. Balachandrakumar’s friend and actor Prakash Bare announced the director's death on Facebook, writing, “After a long battle with illness and injustice, Balu has departed. The director was a former …
India has raised surveillance in light of the surge in Covid cases in many countries, particularly China, from new variants of the virus. Dileep Mavlankar, senior epidemiologist and director of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, says it will be difficult to develop sufficiently effective medication and vaccines against Covid till the time scientists have a handle on how …
Five years have passed by since popular South Indian cinema actress Bhavana Menon alleged in February 2017 that she was abducted and sexually assaulted in a moving car in Nedumbassery, a suburb of Kochi. TRIAL BY FIRE The many turns in the case since the allegations were first made in February 2017 February 17, 2017: A South Indian cinema actress …