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KOCHI: Counting of votes for 1,199 local bodies in Kerala began at 8 am on Saturday, with postal ballots counted first, followed by EVM votes. The State Election Commission (SEC) reported initial trends showing the ruling LDF, the opposition UDF, and the NDA leading in various gram panchayat, block panchayat, municipality, and corporation wards. Counting…
KOCHI: A Kerala sessions court acquitted Monday Malayalam film star Dileep in the 2017 abduction and gang-rape of a fellow actor, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove he conspired to orchestrate the crime. The six-member gang that carried out the assault, led by Sunil NS alias Pulsar Suni, was convicted of gang rape and other…
KOCHI: Malayalam actor Dileep has accused some police officials and a section of the media of hatching a “conspiracy against him” to implicate him in the 2017 sexual assault case of a South Indian actress, claiming the aim was to destroy his career. Speaking to reporters shortly after his acquittal on Monday, Dileep said the…
KOCHI: The Ernakulam principal sessions court will pronounce the verdict in the sensational actor abduction and rape case, in which actor Dileep is accused of conspiring and hiring a gang to execute the crime, on Monday.District and sessions judge Honey M Varghese will deliver the judgment against 10 accused, excluding those who were discharged or…
KOCHI: The Ernakulam principal sessions court on Monday acquitted Actor Dileepin the high-profile 2017 abduction and rape case.The court found six others, including the prime accused Sunil N S, popularly known as Pulsar Suni, guilty for directly committing the crime.The court also acquitted three other persons in the case. The verdict was delivered by Ernakulam…
BJP fields ‘Sonia Gandhi’ in Munnar ward KOCHI: BJP has nominated a woman named Sonia Gandhi as its candidate in Kerala’s Munnar local body polls, leaving the UDF in a uniquely awkward position. The candidate, Sonia Gandhi from ward 16 of Munnar gram panchayat, was named after the Congress leader by her father, late Durai…
KOZHIKODE: CPM MLA Kanathil Jameela, who represented the Koilandy constituency in the state assembly, passed away at a private hospital here around 8.40pm on Saturday. She was 60.The MLA was undergoing treatment for cancer for a long time. She was resting at home due to her condition and was admitted to the hospital on Saturday…
KOCHI: A woman passenger on a KSRTC bus was harassed by a male co-passenger in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. According to reports, the bus was travelling from the Thiruvananthapuram depot to Vellarada via Kattakada, near Peyad. The woman recorded the incident on her phone, confronting the man before slapping him.In the video, he is seen touching…
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan (File Photo) KOCHI: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday declared in the state assembly that Kerala is now free of extreme poverty. The announcement was made during a special session of the assembly held to mark Kerala ‘Piravi’, the state’s formation day. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) opposition rejected…
Kochi: High court has closed the petition filed by the manager of St Rita’s Public School, Palluruthy, challenging a notice issued by the deputy director of education (DDE), Ernakulam, directing the school authorities to permit a girl student to attend classes wearing a headscarf as part of her religious practice.A bench of Justice V G…
