While we were in Bombay travelling to our hometown Tiruvalla, Kerala was an ordeal. Booking a train ticket was a one-day procedure. Travel to Tiruvalla involved getting into a compartment to Ernakulam attached to the Madras Express.

The body of Ligin Varghese, 14, son of Varghese Mathew, Nammanassery house, Peringara in Tiruvalla, was found on the premises of the school with severe injuries on his head. The police arrested Arun, a classmate of Ligin, in this connection.

Indian expatriate and Doha resident for 27 years, Mathew Varghese (Benny) , died of heart related ailment in Kerala's Tiruvalla yesterday. He was 49. Varghese had been running Seven Star Novelty, a well-known shop in the Muntaza area for the past ...