K. V. Vijayan

It was in October 2011 that police collected the blood samples of the child and the accused for conducting DNA matching to ascertain the biological father of the child delivered by the minor girl.

Aravindakshan also said that politburo member C A Ajeer had been suspended from the party. However, another faction led by C P John opposed this and announced that the party politburo had not taken such a decision.

The shadow police arrested a youth for illegal possession of prescription drugs in Palluruthy on Monday. Around 30 nitrozone tablets were seized from the accused, Nahaz Rahim (24).

The city police have submitted a petition for the custody of Xavier alias Panicker Kunjumon (42), who was arrested on Monday for the murder of nine persons over nine years.

Both Bestin and Merin had visited the place several times after embracing Islam.The police said that Bestin used to make email communications from the study centre.

An 18-year-old girl from Shivamogga arrived in Kochi searching for her 'missing' father.Though she found him, she decided to return home as he was struggling to make ends meet for his second wife and five children.

The Kochi city police have busted a mugging racket involving five youths, including a college student, who used to assault passersby under the cover of darkness.

An NRI woman from Kottayam filed a police complaint that an unidentified person was trying to extort money from her after he allegedly morphed her photos.

You will be happy seeing your contractor delivering river sand in a tipper lorry with water dripping from it at your construction site.But don't just get carried away, as you have clearly been fooled by the contractor.

The Kerala police along with the Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad on Saturday arrested a suspect, Rizwan khan, who reportedly forced a Kerala youth for religion conversion and asked him to join the ISIS.

If his links with IRF are confirmed, this could be the first arrest of a member of televangelist Naik's organisation, under the scanner since two of the Bangladesh cafe attackers said they were inspired by his preachings.

The city police probing the suicide of Varkala native Shajahan, who had jumped to his death from the 12th floor of Revenue Tower here on Wednesday, have zeroed in on prime accused Abdul Salam, a native of Alappuzha.

The Kerala police along with the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested Arshid Qureshi, 45, alleged to be a member of Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), on Wednesday night for recruiting Kerala youths for the terror outfit Islamic State (IS).

Ebin Jacob (25), the brother of Merin alias Mariam who is missing along with husband Bestin Vincent alias Yahia, has told police that there was an attempt to forcefully convert him into Islam and make him join the terrorist organization, Islamic State (IS).

A second-year engineering student of the Army Institute of Technology (AIT) here recently filed a complaint of ragging with the institute’s authorities. While the complaint states that the ragging occurred on July 14, the authorities have avoided giving details of the incident, including the number of students involved in the act. The institute has convened a meeting of its anti-ragging committee on Thursday for a preliminary probe.

As it is, khaki is not the favourite colour of citizens.