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A retired BSF man and his wife were found dead in their house at Nayattupara near Mattannur on Saturday morning in a suspected case of suicide.

Novelist P Valsala and Sanskrit scholar Prof NVP Unithiri have been selected for the Kerala Sahitya Academy Fellowship for 2019. The fellowship carries a cash prize of Rs 50,000, gold locket weighing two sovereigns, a citation, and a ponnada.

With the aim of setting up a butterfly park, the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) planted over 300 saplings on the campus on Thursday.

Elections to the posts of chairpersons and vice-chairpersons to 13 municipalities in Ernakulam were held on Monday. While UDF chairpersons were elected to eight municipalities, the rest were secured by the LDF.

Governor Khan ordered Rs 1.13 cr recouped from VCs, including M S Rajashree, after minister Bindu's revelations. Kannur University spent Rs 8 lakh on a Priya Varghese case. High court petitions included M K Jayaraj. Other VCs like Mahadevan Pillai, Sabu Thomas, and Saji Gopinath had no fund mentions.

The CPM seems to be in the offensive even as crime branch officers have already arrested or interrogated a few local party leaders in connection with the Manoj murder case.

Heavy rain inundated several low-lying areas, disrupting normal life on Tuesday. The shutters of all dams, except Sholayar, were opened following continuous inflow in catchment areas. This aggravated public anxiety as water level in canals, rivers downstream increased rapidly. Control rooms were opened in all seven taluks and district headquarters in the wake of continuous downpour

Drishya (21), a second-year law student, was stabbed to death by her former schoolmate at Elamkulam near Perinthalmanna in Malappuram on Thursday morning after she had spurned his romantic advances. Police identified the deceased as the daughter of Balachandran of Chemmattil house at Ellad. Her sister Devashree (13), who sustained grievous stab injuries in the attack, is being treated in the ICU of a private hospital in Perinthalmanna.

As members of a community of concerned citizens and development professionals, we express our earnest apprehension that the proposed independent high-speed railway system called SilverLine will spell disaster to Kerala society in multiple ways.

He recently won the Sangeeth Natak Akademi Award

His latest song is for the film 'Njan Marykutty'