Kerala Women’s League to return after 7 years
The Hindu
The event, featuring six teams and 30 matches in the double-leg format, will get under way at the floodlit stadium in Thrissur on December 11
Seven years after it was shelved owing to lack of sponsorship and patronage, the Kerala Women’s League (KWL) is set to spring back to life, thanks to the collaboration between the Kerala Football Association (KFA) and Scoreline Sports Private Limited of the Meeran Group.
The event, featuring six teams and 30 matches in the double-leg format, will get under way at the floodlit stadium in Thrissur on December 11. It will be preceded by a celebrity women’s football match. Actors Reema Kallingal and Malavika Jayaram, among others, are expected to participate in the match to be held at the Kadavanthra Regional Sports Centre on Friday.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists