Kochi: Director, actor, screenwriter, composer and novelist, Bhagyaraj, 73, passed away following a heart attackin Chennai on Saturday, India Today reported.Bhagyaraj was brought unconscious to Apollo Hospitals, where doctors declared him dead.Bhagyaraj is survived by wife, actor Poornima Bhagyaraj, children, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj and daughter Saranya Bhagyaraj.Krishnaswamy Bhagyaraj was born on January 7, 1953, near Gobichettipalayam.He
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Kochi: Speculations are rife over reshuffle in the BJP-led Union government, the first one after the NDA came to power in 2024.The rejig will take into consideration the forthcoming election in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Gujarat in 2027.BJP will give due weight to West Bengal where it came to power
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Kochi: Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust members Champat Rai and Anil Mishra quit with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s taking strong action in the alleged temple donation misappropriation case. The resignations by Rai and Mishra comes amidst the Special Investigation Team (SIT) unearthing serious lapses in the handling and monitoring of donations offered by devotees
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Kochi: Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday booked eight persons on alleged charges of embezzlement, fraud, criminal conspiracy and breach of trust over missing donations in the Ram Temple Trust. The FIR has been registered in Ayodhya based on a complaint from Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Trust against those including Ramashankar Yadav alias Tinnu, Manish Yadav, Luvkush
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Kochi: Police in Jammu and Kashmir Police have booked Army men accusing them of entering a police station and assaulting cops and damaging government property, media reports said.The case is sequel to police allegedlyseizing a private vehicle of an army official for traffic violations on Wednesday, Times of India reported.Police alleged a large number of
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Kochi: Seven migrant workers were killed and 67 others were hospitalized following an ammonia gas leak at a seafood processing and export unit in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district.The National Disaster Response Force’s (NDRF) 4th Battalion headquarters in Arakkonam was immediately informed and mobilised to respond to the emergency situation, India Today reported.The workers from states
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Kochi: The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP)’s second major protest at Jantar Mantar in support of its demands continued despite crossing the deadline at 5 pm on Saturday. Its founder Abhijeet Dipke still remained on site from 1 pm demanding among other things resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan owing for the follies in conduct of NEET examinations.
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Kochi: Eleven heart patients died at Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research within 24 hours.The patients were suffering from severe cardiac conditions and were receiving treatment at the institution, media reports said.Family members of some of the deceased have openly expressed anger and questioned the functioning of the hospital administration and medical staff.Relatives have
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Kochi: Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke was slapped while his party was participating in a protest in support of its demands in Jaipur in Rajasthan on Monday.It held a demonstration at the Shaheed Smarak in Jaipur demanding among other things the resignation of Pradhan on NEET bungling, NDTV reported.Reacting to the assault, Dipke
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Kochi: Thalaivar Rajinikanth’s son-in-law Vishakhan has joined K Annamalai’s ‘We The Leader’ which has become popular in a short duration.The move has sent a message across the state that the movement has the blessings of Rajinikanth whose daughter Soundarya is wife ofVishakhan who is an actor and pharma company entrepreneur.Annamalai’s movement drew 15 lakh enrollment
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Kochi: Amidst country wide drive against illegal Bangladesh nationals, Kerala Police nabbed a 30-year-old Salma Kathul at Kanhangad in Kasaragod.She had entered India using fake documents. On reaching Kolkata, she got fake Aadhaar and PAN card and sneaked into Kerala where she was working in a hotel in Malappuram district, Manorama News reported.There she befriended
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Kochi: Twenty three parties of the I.N.D.I.A Bloc sans Aam Aadmi Party and DMK met at Constitution Club in New Delhi on Monday to discuss future course of action.The meeting resolved to write to the Chief Justice of India over their concerns related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said the letter,
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Kochi: D K Shiv Kumar of Congress has become Chief Minister of Karnataka on Wednesday.Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot administered the oath of office and secrecy at the Glass House in Lok Bhavan, media reports said.G Parameshwara took oath as the deputy chief minister of Karnataka. 12 legislators, most of whom were ministers in the previous Siddaramaiah-led
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Kochi: “Self-defense” strikes were launched by the US on Qeshm Island in Iran by shooting down ballistic missiles and drones fired at ships and Gulf countries, the US military has said.The strikes were “in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East”, BBC quoting US Central Command (Centcom) said.Iran said it had attacked
Kochi: At least 20 people were killed in a major blaze in a restaurant in South Delhi’s Malviya Nagar early on Wednesday morning, media reports said. Ten fire tenders who reached the spot in the morning have controlled the fire. Three people who were trapped in the basement were rescued. People from South Africa live
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Kochi: The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) have successfully conducted the flight-tests of RudraM-02 air-to-surface missile from an airborne platform from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur.Quoting the Defence Ministry, the Times of India said on Tuesday that the missiles were guided to a predefined target with pin-point
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Kochi: Nine terror suspects allegedly planning attacks at “critical installations, security personnel, and religious places” in Delhi were nabbed on Saturday.The Special Cell of Delhi Police busted the terror module linked to the Dawood Ibrahim network and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Times of India reported.Arms, hand grenades and explosive materials were recovered and they
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Kochi: Raids were conducted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod districts on Saturday in connection with the seizure of explosives in Malappuram district in February.The raids started in the wee hours in different establishments of the accused and other suspects in Chemmad in Tirurangadi, Manorama News reported.The investigation is
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Kochi: Karnataka’s Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of Congress is likely to resign, Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said.The matter was disclosed by Siddaramaiah during his breakfast meeting attended by Gundu Rao at the Chief Minister’s official residence in Bengaluru on May 28.The Chief Minister informed the Cabinet that he was quitting as he had been asked
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Kochi: Karnataka’s Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of Congress is likely to resign, Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said, media reports said.The matter was disclosed by Siddaramaiah during his breakfast meeting attended by Gundu Rao at the Chief Minister’s official residence in Bengaluru on May 28.The Chief Minister informed the Cabinet that he was quitting as he
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