Thiruvananthapuram: A suspected “mentally deranged” man allegedly stabbed four of his relatives to death in Kerala’s Kasargode district on Monday night, a police official said. The incident took place at the Paivalike village council at Manjeswaram in the district. According to the police, the 35-year-old man is understood to be of unsound mind and following […]
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Rape accused Bishop Franco tests Covid positive
Thiruvananthapuram: A day after a court in Kerala’s Kottayam issued a non-bailable warrant against Jalandhar’s former Catholic bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of sexually assaulting a nun between 2014 and 2016, for failing to appear before it, it was told that he has tested Covid positive on Tuesday. The case at the court was posted on […]
Covid-19 patient tests negative, commits suicide in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: A 33-year-old man, who had on Tuesday run away from the Covid ward of the hospital and was later brought back, was found hanging in his isolation room, here on Wednesday. He was rushed to the intensive care unit, but couldn’t be saved. The man, hailing from Anandu in the capital district suburbs, had […]
Case registered against Maneka Gandhi in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: The Malappuram Police on Friday registered a case under Section 153 of the IPC against former Union Minister and BJP leader Maneka Gandhi for her ‘communal’ remark on the killing of a pregnant cow elephant near the edge of Silent Valley National Park at Palakkad in Kerala. While one person who allegedly made the […]
Kerala man, five friends held after wife alleges gang rape
Thiruvananthapuram: In a shocking case, a woman was allegedly gang-raped at a coastal village around 20 km from the state capital by some men who were friends of her husband. Police on Friday arrested her husband and five others for the crime. The woman said her husband took her and her two children on a […]
Cops looking for 3 over killing of pregnant Kerala elephant
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said that a joint probe by forest and police officials to track down the killers of the pregnant elephant in Palakkad is on and three persons are on their radar. Vijayan also took strong exceptions to the manner in which some Union ministers and some other leaders […]
Two in custody for causing death of pregnant elephant
Thiruvananthapura: A Kerala forest department team probing the killing of a pregnant elephant is leant to have taken two persons into custody. The forest officials are tight-lipped on the progress of their investigation. The elephant’s habitat was in the Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad district. The local Manarakadu police station on Wednesday registered a […]
61 more Covid cases reported in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: The number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise in Kerala with 61 more cases reported on Sunday – 20 of these among those who came from abroad and 37 among who came from within the country, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. With this, the total number of positive cases in the state has touched […]
R. Sreelekha to become Kerala’s first woman DGP
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Police will get its first woman Director General when R.Sreelekha assumes office as the new head of the Kerala Fire and Rescue Services on June 1. Presently an Additional Director General of Police, she currently heads the Jail Department. At the weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the Kerala government elevated her as DGP, […]
No fresh case in Kerala, 95 under treatment
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote on his Facebook page that on Sunday there are no new fresh cases of coronavirus. “So far 401 people who were positive have been cured and as on date there are 95 under treatment,” said Vijayan “A total of 21,332 people are under observation at their homes while […]