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B B Gopakumar is BJP parliamentary party leader Thiruvananthapuram: Chathannur MLA B B Gopakumar was named BJP parliamentary party leader in assembly on Wednesday.Party insiders said both party state president and Nemom MLA Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Kazhakkoottam MLA V Muraleedharan were interested in becoming parliamentary party leader. However, both MLAs, who had earlier served as Union ministers, were not ready to accept the other one as parliamentary party leader in the assembly.This forced central leadership to choose Gopakumar as the parliamentary party leader in the house. Gopakumar was also BJP’s speaker candidate earlier. Source link

Anik Dutta’s house on Hindustan Park Kolkata: Shocked neighbours of Hindustan Park and Dover Lane remember filmmaker Anik Dutta as a dignified and quiet man who kept to himself but who was warm-hearted. Dutta and his wife Sandhi used to live in a duplex in the six-storey (G+5) building at Hindustan Park. But the former moved out a couple of years ago. On Wednesday, Dutta died after a fall from the terrace of the building. Dutta was rushed to a private hospital at Dhakuria in a critical state and later was declared dead. As soon as news of the incident…

NEW DELHI: A man from Congo and three others who came into contact with him have been isolated in Ahmedabad and their samples sent for Ebola testing, Gujarat health minister Praful Pansheriya said on Wednesday.The development comes two days after the Gujarat government intensified screening of passengers arriving from Uganda, Congo and South Sudan at Ahmedabad International Airport amid the Ebola outbreak in parts of Africa, particularly Congo.According to the Centre’s guidelines, intensive screening of flyers arriving from affected countries is under way at the airport. Praful Pansheriya had earlier chaired a review meeting on preparedness measures in the state,…

Mumbai: In an interim order, the Bombay High Court directed the traffic police not to take action against vehicles of members of a Borivali (E) housing society whose internal road is proposed as a public road under the development plan.Justices Shyam Chandak and Shreeram Shirsat on Monday also directed that the housing society “shall not allow the parking of the vehicles of its members in an unauthorised manner thereby causing an obstruction to ambulance, vehicles of fire brigade department, etc. passing from the proposed DP road.”Ekta Meadows CHS, comprising seven wings and 420 flats, challenged the BMC’s “illegal, arbitrary and…

Bengaluru: Three men have been arrested by VV Puram police for going on a rampage in the early hours, threatening and assaulting passers-by with wooden logs and smashing parked two-wheelers in a shocking display of hooliganism.The incident happened on Magadi Venkatappa Road on May 20. CCTV footage capturing their acts went viral on social media, prompting police to register a suo motu case and arrest the trio identified as Abhishek, 26, Puneeth, 25, and Umesh, 25.It all started with Abhishek, who allegedly assaulted his sister-in-law for lodging a complaint against his brother over domestic violence a month ago. The woman…

Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy has written to his Maharashtra counterpart Devendra Fadnavis seeking an early meeting to resolve the long-pending issue of the proposed height of the Tummidihatti barrage, a key component of Telangana’s ambitious Pranahita-Chevella irrigation project.In the letter, Revanth urged Fadnavis to finalise a schedule for talks with a Telangana delegation, which he said he would personally lead, to discuss the issue and expedite the project.The Telangana govt plans to construct the barrage as part of the BR Ambedkar Pranahita-Chevella Sujala Sravanthi project aimed at meeting irrigation and drinking water needs in north Telangana.The project was…

AHMEDABAD: Police have registered a murder case against a woman for allegedly poisoning and strangling her three children before attempting suicide by consuming phenyl, officials said on Wednesday. She is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital.According to Valsad deputy superintendent of police (DSP) JK Patel, police received information that a woman had killed her children, following which an investigation was launched.“We got information that a woman has killed her children. Upon investigation, we found that an altercation between the husband and wife followed after he discovered his wife’s affair,” DSP Patel said.Police said the incident happened after a domestic dispute…

Bhubaneswar: A notorious criminal was shot and injured during an exchange of fire with police on the city’s outskirts in the early hours of Wednesday, adding to the series of non-fatal encounters across the state.Papun Majhi (31), who has 20 heinous cases registered against him, sustained a bullet wound near his right knee during the police operation in Info Valley area around 2.30 am.Acting on a tip-off that he was planning to peddle brown sugar in Info Valley and Jatni, a special crime unit (SCU) raided the area. When confronted, Majhi attempted to flee and opened fire on the police.“Our…

Mangaluru: Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal have developed an advanced bioactive, mechanically durable, and localised antimicrobial coating technology for orthopaedic implants, with particular application in hip and knee joint replacements. The patented innovation marks a significant milestone in indigenous biomedical engineering, and represents a major step forward in improving patient outcomes for millions of orthopaedic implant recipients across India and globally.Addressing the growing challenges of implant-associated infections, implant loosening, and suboptimal long-term performance of conventional implants, the team developed a durable bioactive and antimicrobial composite coating that can be directly applied onto implant surfaces using…

Roshan was an IT employee who recently quit his job Madikeri: A man from Kodagu who went to view paddy fields was killed after being struck by lightning in Yelwala near Mysuru on Tuesday. The victim, Hosoklu Roshan Balakrishna, was the son of late Hosoklu Balakrishna of Heravanad village near Madikeri. Roshan was an IT employee who recently quit his job and, along with his colleague, was involved in agricultural activities, including introducing modern agricultural equipment and marketing it. He was accidentally struck by lightning while visiting a paddy field in Yelwala in the evening hours. Another person who was…