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Berhampur/Bhubaneswar (Odisha) | Odisha Police on Wednesday arrested 12 people, including former Berhampur MLA and BJD's Ganjam district president Bikram Panda, for the murder of BJP leader and advocate Pitabas Panda, officials said. The BJD criticised the arrests of Bikram Panda and two other party leaders, calling them "politically motivated". Berhampur Superintendent of Police Saravana Vivek M told reporters that the murder was the result of "political rivalry, personal enmity and financial ...Read More >
Fatehgarh Sahib (Pb) | A fire broke out in a coach of the Amritsar-Saharsa Garib Rath Express near Sirhind railway station here on Saturday morning, officials said. According to the Railway Board, one person sustained minor injuries in the incident, the reason behind which is yet to be ascertained. The fire broke out around 7:30 AM when the train (number 12204) was coming from Amritsar. A Government Railway Police (GRP) official said smoke was noticed in one of the AC coaches of the train. A ...Read More >
Mumbai | The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Friday recovered nearly eight kilograms of cocaine worth Rs 79.5 crore from two female passengers at the Mumbai international airport after the contraband was found concealed in toy packets inside their bags, officials said. The action was taken based on specific inputs about attempts to smuggle cocaine, they said. The Mumbai zonal unit of the DRI intercepted two women arriving at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport he ...Read More >
New Delhi | Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices were hiked by over 3 per cent and commercial LPG rates by Rs 15.50 per cylinder on Wednesday as oil firms revised fuel prices in line with global benchmarks. Jet fuel (ATF) price was increased by Rs 3,052.5 per kilolitre, or 3.3 per cent, to Rs 93,766.02 per kl in the national capital - home to one of the busiest airports in the country, according to state-owned fuel retailers. The increase comes on the back of a 1.4 per cent (Rs 1,308.41 per kl) ...Read More >
Idukki (Kerala) | A worker from Tamil Nadu died due to suffocation when he entered a manhole to clean a septic tank of a hotel in Kattappana in the hill district of Idukki on September 30. Two other workers who went to rescue him also collapsed, police said on Wednesday. Of the deceased, one hailed from Cumbum in Theni district and two from Gudalur in Nilgiris district, they said. One labourer got trapped inside the manhole while cleaning the tank on Tuesday night and two others went to rescue ...Read More >
New Delhi | The International Cricket Council (ICC) and the UNICEF on Monday announced the launch of the Promise to Children digital campaign during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025, urging cricket fans, players and audiences to commit to equal opportunities for all children, particularly the most vulnerable. The campaign, supported by UNICEF National Ambassador and Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana and Indian women's cricket team vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, aims to harness the unifyin ...Read More >
Kannur (Kerala) | Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly V D Satheesan said on Friday that the Congress maintains a secular position in the state. He was responding to reporters' questions on Nair Service Society (NSS) general secretary G Sukumaran Nair's recent remarks that he trusted the LDF government on the Sabarimala issue. Satheesan said there were no issues between the Congress and community organisations like NSS or the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam. "We have good ...Read More >
Palakkad (Kerala) | A Congress leader in the district has lodged a police complaint against CPI(M) District Secretary E N Suresh Babu over his "headmaster" remark against Shafi Parambil MP. The complaint was filed by Alathur Block Congress General Secretary Pramod to the Palakkad District Police Chief via email on Thursday night. In his petition, Pramod alleged that Babu's statement was "derogatory and baseless", and amounted to defamation of the Congress party as well as women in the state. ...Read More >
Kozhikode (Kerala) | Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar took a swipe at the Left government in the state, saying those who criticise 'guru pooja' and 'Bharat Mata' are only "pretending to be Sabarimala devotees". The Governor said that if these people do have such "sanctity", "principles" and "bhava" (emotions) in their minds, they should come out openly and say so. "Why is this being done? Only for political convenience? Bharat Mata, guru pooja and all such things are not politically ...Read More >
Malappuram (Kerala) | Leader of Opposition in the Kerala assembly, V D Satheesan on Tuesday accused the ruling CPI (M) of having an "unholy alliance" with the BJP and cited a message from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, which was read out at the recent Global Ayyappa Sangamam, as the latest example of this partnership. Continuing to criticise Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over the Sangamam held in Pampa, he alleged that the Marxist party veteran tried to showcase a "pseudo devot ...Read More >
Kasaragod (Kerala) | Nine people, including two government employees, have been arrested from this district for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy after befriending him on a mobile app for the LGBTQ community, police said on Tuesday. According to a senior police officer of the district, the boy was sexually assaulted over two years at his home and other places, including in Kannur and Kozhikode districts, by 14 different men. The assault came to light when the boy's mother saw a m ...Read More >
Thrissur | The Station House Officer (SHO) of Wadakkanchery police station, who drew flak for producing three Kerala Students Union (KSU) leaders in court with their faces masked and hands cuffed, has been transferred as part of disciplinary action. The action against SHO Shajahan UK followed a report submitted by the Thrissur City Police Commissioner to the State Police Chief, police sources said on Monday. He has been shifted from Wadakkanchery police station to the Thiruvananthapuram Police ...Read More >
Kannur (Kerala) | Police have arrested a key accused, who arranged mule bank accounts for cyber fraudsters to cheat a 73-year-old doctor of Rs 4.43 crore through a fake online trading scheme at Mattannur in this north Kerala district, officials said on Saturday. The accused, identified as Zainul Abideen (41), a native of Arakkappady in Ernakulam, was nabbed by the Kannur City Cyber Crime Police team from Ernakulam on Friday. A mule account is a bank account opened in the name of another person ...Read More >
Maharajganj (UP) | She tried to escape the burning Kathmandu hotel by lowering herself from the fourth floor with the help of a curtain -- and her husband's helping hands. But it was never to be. Rajesh Devi Gola slipped and fell to her death, the long planned pilgrimage to Pashupatinath temple in the Nepal capital gone horribly wrong for the couple from Ghaziabad. The 55-year-old is the only Indian among the 51 killed in the violent Gen Z protests that raged across Nepal this week. Two days a ...Read More >
New Delhi: Industry leaders welcomed the recently announced GST reforms, which reduce the number of tax slabs, stating that it will make tax compliance easier while also directly benefiting consumers through lower prices. Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce Joint Secretary Navjot Alang Rubal said that the reduction of the number of slabs from four to two under the new GST structure is a highly positive step. According to Rubal, this reform will greatly benefit the middle and lower-income groups as t ...Read More >
Thrissur (Kerala) | The Congress on Friday announced plans to launch a direct protest against five police officers accused of allegedly torturing Youth Congress leader V S Sujith while in custody at a police station in central Kerala two years ago. Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly V D Satheesan, who visited Sujith at his residence, said the accused officers would not be allowed to wear their uniforms again. "Usually, we act within a framework in protest activities. But we are breaki ...Read More >
Chennai, Aug 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu has once again emerged as the country's leader in industrial employment, with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin attributing the achievement to the policies of the Dravidian model government. Citing the Union government's Annual Survey of Industries 2023-24, CM Stalin said the recognition from New Delhi is itself the strongest rebuttal to critics, who have been "targeting" the state government on the industrial and economic fronts. In a post on 'X', the Chie ...Read More >
New Delhi | Safety suffocates me. An unusual comment from others perhaps but not when it comes from Arundhati Roy who has faced fame and fury alike for her writings, be it her debut novel that won her the Booker Prize in 1997 and propelled her to stardom or her unflinching political pieces. Roy, whose candid memoir "Mother Mary Comes to Me" was launched on Thursday, takes it all in her stride. Even if she is called an antinational whose words and views have made her the target of trolls and a p ...Read More >
Thrissur (Kerala) | Kerala General Education Minister V Sivankutty on Tuesday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to carry out a re-election in the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency, in the wake of reports of widespread voters' list manipulation. The BJP had gained a landslide victory in this constituency in the 2024 general election. Actor-turned- BJP leader Suresh Gopi, now serving as Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Tourism, won the Thrissur seat by a significant margin of o ...Read More >
Ballikurava (Andhra Pradesh) | Six migrant workers were killed and three injured after a massive granite rock fell on them at a quarry in Bapatla district on Sunday. According to police, the incident occurred around 10.30 am today when 10 to 15 workers were engaged in mining works. "All victims are from Odisha. We suspect water seepage caused the rock to give way. Forensic teams are investigating," the police official told PTI, adding there were no blasts or seismic activity. Rescue operation ...Read More >
New Delhi | Punjab National Bank (PNB) is well poised to touch the milestone of Rs 30 lakh crore total business by the end of the current financial year and the country's second biggest lender has the right strategy in place to achieve it, the bank's MD and CEO Ashok Chandra said. Total business of PNB rose by 11.6 per cent to Rs 27.19 crore at the end of the first quarter of the current financial year. PNB is closely followed by Bank of Baroda with total business of Rs 26.43 lakh crore while C ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) India's passenger vehicle sales crossed the one million mark in the April-June quarter (Q1) of 2025-26 with exports registering a double-digit growth, according to data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) on Tuesday. "Passenger Vehicles, comprising utility vehicles and cars, saw their highest ever exports in Q1 of 2025-26 of 2.04 Lakh units, registering a growth of 13.2 per cent over Q1 of 2024-25," according to the SIAM statemen ...Read More >
Kannur (Kerala) | Kerala General Education Minister V Sivankutty on Tuesday said that the government would not allow the "blending of religion with education" and reiterated that there would be no change in the revised school timings. Under the revised timetable, high school students (classes 8 to 10) will spend an extra 15 minutes in the morning and another 15 minutes in the afternoon on each working day except Fridays to help schools reach the required 1,100 instructional hours per year. How ...Read More >
Alappuzha (Kerala) | Activists of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) on Monday took out a protest march to a CBSE school in Mavelikara in this coastal district against a "pada puja" ritual held recently. DYFI is the youth outfit of the ruling CPI(M). The protesters alleged that children were made to wash the feet of not just teachers but also that of a local BJP leader who attended the ritual at the school, Vivekananda Vidya Peedom, last week. The Left activists, including women, ...Read More >
Palakkad (Kerala) | A 57-year-old man from Palakkad district in Kerala, who died on July 12, is suspected to have been infected with the Nipah virus, prompting the government to ramp up contact tracing and field-level surveillance in the area. The man had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in this northern district. His samples were tested at Manjeri Medical College, where the result came back positive for Nipah, Health Minister Veena George said in a statement. She added that th ...Read More >
New Delhi | Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha has constituted a three-member Fact-Finding Committee to ascertain the reasons for the prolonged delay in conducting the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) elections and to recommend a roadmap to ensure fair and timely polls. The committee, formed on Friday, is chaired by IOA Treasurer Sahdev Yadav, with IOA Executive Council member Bhupender Singh Bajwa and Advocate Payal Kakra as members. "The term of the current Executive Committe ...Read More >
Kannur (Kerala) | Senior BJP leader C Sadanandan Master, who has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha, on Sunday said the party high command's decisions and his new responsibility are aimed at realising its core objective of "Viksit Keralam" (Developed Kerala). He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi indicated the new position two days prior during an interaction and he learned of the nomination this morning. A senior leader of the saffron party from politically volatile Kannur district, Sadanandan ...Read More >
Idukki (Kerala) |A four-year-old boy was killed when a car hit him while his mother was holding him close at a roadside EV charging station in Kerala's hilly Vagamon region on Friday afternoon. The child, from Nemom near Thiruvananthapuram, was on a short holiday with his parents when the accident occurred, police said. His father, an Indian Air Force officer, had driven the family from their home in Pala in Kottayam district to Vagamon. They had stopped to charge their car at a station near ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram/Kozhikode (Kerala) | The Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama -- a prominent association of Sunni scholars with the largest support base among Kerala Muslims -- on Saturday said that discussions need to be held before implementing the revised school timings. Prominent Islamic scholar and Samastha leader Syed Jifri Muthukoya Thangal, while speaking to reporters at Kozhikode, said responses on the issue from those representing the government should be "polite and not stubborn". ...Read More >
Kollam (Kerala) | At Ramavilasom Vocational Higher Secondary School (RVHSS) in Valakom in this South Kerala district, a proud tribute to former student G P Nandana greets visitors at the gate, celebrating her remarkable feat of securing the 2nd rank in Kerala and 47th nationally in the Civil Services Examinations. But the school's acclaim doesn't end there, as it has also become a model for innovation in education, thanks to a unique classroom setup that eliminates the idea of backbenchers enti ...Read More >
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