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NEW DELHI: Lini PN, the nurse from Kerala, who died due to Nipah virus that she contracted while treating a patient last year during the Nipah outbreak, was posthumously awarded National Florence Nightingale Award-2019.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala boasts of being the number one state in India in many spheres, however, the plight of one mother and her six children shocked the entire state.

NEW DELHI: Putting Kerala’s ruling Left Democratic Front government in an embarrassing position, Bindhu Ammini, who was refused police protection to go to Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple last month, has approached the Supreme Court with a plea seeking directions to the State to ensure safe entry and passage of women of all ages into Sabarimala Temple.

NEW DELHI: Celebrated Malayalam poet Akhitham Achuthan Nampoothiri, popularly known as Akkitham, has been honoured with the prestigious Jnanpith Award 2019 at the age of 93.

TRIVANDRUM: Responding to the Malayalam Film Producers Association’s allegation that new-gen actors are taking drugs to the film sets, Kerala Minister in-charge of Cinema AK Balan said on Friday that the government was ready to act if the producers were ready to give proof.

NEW DELHI: In a major setback to Malayalam actor Dileep, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected his plea for a copy of the memory card containing a video of the alleged sexual assault of an actress in which he has been implicated.

BENGALURU: Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday resigned as the Congress Legislature Party leader, taking moral responsibility for the party's poor show in the assembly bypolls.

BENGALURU: The counting of votes for the by-elections on 15 assembly seats in Karnataka that went to polls on December 5 is underway at 11 centres in the state.

BENGALURU: According to the exit poll result predicted on Thursday, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to win the majority of the December 5 bypolls that were held in 15 Assembly segments in Karnataka.

BANGALORE: An estimated 61 per cent of the total 37.78 lakh electors have cast their vote in the by-election held to 15 seats in the Karnatkaka Assembly on Thursday, according to preliminary reports. The results to be announced on December 9 will decide the future of BS Yediyurappa-led BJP government in Karnataka.

BENGALURU: Voting for 15 assembly constituencies of Karnataka going to by-polls, began on Thursday morning.

BANGALORE: Voters of 15 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka will decide the future of the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Thursday.

MADURAI: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MLA Dr P Saravanan along with other party leaders from Madurai filed a complaint with the District Collector, protesting against the installation of a statue of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in KK Nagar area.

CHENNAI: Tamil super star Rajnikanth is gearing up to fill the void left behind in Tamil Nadu politics by former Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (DMK) patriarch M Karunanidhi and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary before the next Assembly polls in the state.

CHENNAI: Shanmugam Subramanian, a techie from Madurai in Tamil Nadu, has started receiving laurels from across the world after he identified the debris of Vikram Lander of Chandrayan 2 that even NASA failed to find.

SHIVAGANGA: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted that widespread rainfall is expected to batter isolated places of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Thursday a fresh plea of the DMK, seeking a direction to the Election Commission to complete formalities such as the delimitation of constituencies and reservation aspects before going ahead with the panchayat and local body election in Tamil Nadu.

CHENNAI: The State Election Commission on Monday announced that the long-awaited elections to rural local bodies in Tamil Nadu will be held in two phases on December 27 and 30.

AMARAVATI: Telugu Desam Party chief and Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday staged a protest near state Assembly, demanding minimum support price (MSP) for farmers' crop that was promised by Jaganmohan Reddy-led state government.

AMARAVATI: Former Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu along with other leaders of his party held protests in Amaravati against the rising prices of the onions in the State.

VIJAYAWADA: The first complaint under Zero FIR system in Andhra Pradesh was registered at the Kanchikacherla station in Krishna district.

ANANTPUR: In a shocking incident, the headmistress of a school in Andhra Pradesh tied two kids to a bench in their class for their mischievous behaviour.

AMARAVATI: Former Chief Minister and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday will visit the villages that constitute the capital region of Amravati and review the status of the constructions.

AMARAVATI: Continuing its battle against corruption, the YS Jagarnmohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh has launched a separate call centre to receive complaints regarding corruption.

HYDERABAD: Telangana High Court will hear the encounter case in which four accused of gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian were shot down by state police early on December 6.

HYDERABAD: A petition was filed in the Telangana High Court on Saturday seeking probe into killing of four persons arrested on charges of raping and murdering a veterinary doctor by the Telangana Police.

HYDERABAD: After all the four accused in the rape and murder of a woman veterinarian in Telangana were killed in an encounter with the police, the victim's father expressed gratitude to the police.

HYDERABAD: All four men accused in the Hyderabad veterinarian's rape and murder case have been killed in an encounter with police Friday morning, police said.

HYDERABAD: The state's Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali held a high-level meeting on Women and Children's safety at the chamber of state Secretariat in Hyderabad on Wednesday night.

HYDERABAD: Cyberabad police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old youth who made indecent comments on Facebook about the woman veterinarian, who was gang-raped and murdered last week in Hyderabad.