Binu Karunakaran is a Sr Associate Editor at Newslaundry. He focuses on regional interest and world news, with particular attention to topics such as local and regional economies, healthcare systems, legal affairs, and arts and entertainment. Binu's work has been featured in prominent outlets including Scroll Media and The News Minute.
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By: Haritha John, Binu Karunakaran
In 2026, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) delivered its best-ever Assembly election performance in Kerala by winning three seats — Nemom, Kazhakkoottam and Chathannoor. Statewide, the NDA won 24.66 lakh votes, up from 23.54 lakh in 2021. Its vote share nudged from 12.5% to 14.2%.
By: Binu Karunakaran, Anisha Sheth
Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge’s persistent questioning of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s legal status appears to have forced a reckoning of sorts. T
By: Shivani Kava, Binu Karunakaran
For nearly twenty years, farmers in Bidadi could neither sell their land nor build on it.
By: Binu Karunakaran, Azeefa Fathima
When a mountain of excavated soil came crashing down onto the Meenakshi bridge near Kalladi near Meppadi in Wayanad on July 7, sweeping away a tanker lorry and
Listen to this article: When a mountain of excavated soil came crashing down onto the Meenakshi bridge near Kalladi near Meppadi in Wayanad on July 7, sweeping away a tanker lorry and claiming at least three lives, it also exposed the callousness...
Unlike the two earlier landslides that have struck Wayanad's natural Western Ghats slopes in recent years, this one happened at a site entirely shaped by human activity.
By: Binu Karunakaran, Maria Teresa Raju
Continuous rain and fears over unstable soil at the landslide site are major challenges faced by teams engaged in search for five workers missing since the disa
By: Binu Karunakaran
The CCTV footage is chilling to watch — a wall of slush-like debris crashing through the Meenakshi bridge, sweeping away a tanker lorry like it weighs nothing, the vehicle finally slamming to a halt just inches from a couple who had fallen while running from the debris flow..
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By: Binu Karunakaran
Uprooted trees are still visible at the landslide scarp at Meenakshikunnu in Kalladi, where a massive debris flow of excavated soil was triggered on July 7 — a
