Thiruvananthapuram |Β Two days after the Kerala Assembly polls, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his predecessor and Congress leader Oommen Chandy both tested Covid positive on Thursday. While Vijayan himself wrote on his Facebook page that he has turned Covid positive and is getting himself admitted to the Kozhikode Medical College, Chandy’s family is preferring to […]
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Gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh names Kerala CM in dollar hawala
Thiruvananthapuram:Β Hours after Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan slammed the Central agencies, a statement given by the gold smuggling case prime accused — Swapna Suresh to the Customs Department — surfaced on Friday, which said ‘Vijayan had a role in dollar smuggling’. In her statement recorded under Section 108 of the Customs Act, and the 164 […]
Conditional bail to mother arrested for sexually abusing minor son
Thiruvananthapuram (2 Min Read):Β The Kerala High Court on Friday granted conditional bail to the 35-year-old woman who was arrested following a complaint by her minor son that she has been sexually assaulting him. Justice S. Shirsy granted her bail on a Rs 1 lakh security bond and called upon the government to constitute a special […]
17 held for rape of minor girl in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram:Β In a horrifying incident of sexual abuse, a minor girl was raped by several men leading to the arrest of 17 of them and registration of 30 cases under the POCSO Act. The incident happened in Pandikkad, Malappuram district. The Child Welfare Committee and the police have swung into action now. The girl was abused […]
Kerala: Woman arrested under POCSO law for sexually exploiting 14-year-old son
Thiruvananthapuram:Β In a startling incident, a woman in Kadakkavoor in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district has been arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act for having sexually exploited her 14-year-old son, police said on Monday. This is the first such incident seen in the state. The father had complained to the police that the boy’s […]
21-year-old becomes Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram:Β Arya Rajendran, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) councilor from Mudavanmugal in Thiruvananthapuram was sworn in as the new Mayor of the city corporation. She is just 21 years old. Arya, who is a B.Sc Mathematics second year student at the All Saints College here, told media that she will continue with her studies along […]
Kerala: Suspected ‘mentally deranged’ man stabs four relatives to death
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 […]
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 […]