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  • Monsoon will reach Kerala on June 4

    Monsoon will reach Kerala on June 4

    New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday predicted that the southwest monsoon is likely to set in on Kerala around June 4. As per the IMD, there is no possibility of the arrival of monsoon before June 1.

    “Once the monsoon gets strong, it is likely to arrive in Kerala around June 4, 2023,” said IMD in its updated long-range forecast outlook for the 2023 Southwest monsoon Season (June – September) rainfall and monthly rainfall and temperature for June 2023.

    The IMD further informed that there is no cyclone probability in the Arabian Sea for next week. “If rainfall distribution is almost similar everywhere, then it will be an ideal situation. There won’t be any problem. If we get equal distribution everywhere, there won’t be much impact on agriculture. In northwest India, as of now, below-normal rainfall will be there,” according to the IMD.

    As per the IMD, below-normal monthly rainfall is expected over most parts of the country except in some areas of south peninsular India, northwest India, extreme north India, and some isolated pockets of northeast India, where above-normal rainfall is expected in June.

    However, the southwest monsoon seasonal (June to September) rainfall over the country is most likely to be normal (96 to 104% of Long Period Average (LPA).

    Quantitatively, the southwest monsoon seasonal (June to September) rainfall over the country is likely to be 96% of the LPA with a model error of ± 4%, said the IMD.

    Barring the northwestern region, India is set to receive normal rainfall this monsoon season despite the El Nino phenomenon which is set to return after a three-year hiatus, the weather office said on Friday.

    However, most parts of the country will witness deficient showers in June, except some pockets in peninsular regions such as south Karnataka and northern Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Ladakh, the India Meteorological Department said in its update of the long range forecast for the season.

    The weather office said the warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean has begun and there was a 90 per cent probability of development of the El Nino phenomenon, which is known to affect monsoon rains in India.

    However, a positive Indian Ocean Dipole is likely to develop during the monsoon season which would offset the adverse impact of the El Nino and bring rains to most parts of the country.

  • Kerala college student burnt to death in ‘mysterious’ manner

    Kerala college student burnt to death in ‘mysterious’ manner

    Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) | A preliminary investigation has been launched by the police after a mysterious burn injury on the back of a final year BSc Agriculture student at the Kerala Agricultural College. According to reports, the two final year girl students – both from Andhra Pradesh – were roommates in the hostel here. The matter of burn injury has come to light on the back of one of them.

    The incident is being told of last week.

    Amazingly, the student didn’t complain. It was only after his family came here after hearing about the incident that the college authorities asked the local police to investigate the matter.

    Neither the injured student nor her family members have lodged an official complaint. So the police is only conducting a formal investigation.

    Further details are awaited.

    –IANS

  • gold smuggling case accused swapna suresh appeared in kerala court in fake degree certificate case

    gold smuggling case accused swapna suresh appeared in kerala court in fake degree certificate case

    Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) | Swapna Suresh, the main accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case, appeared before a local court on Wednesday in connection with the fake degree certificate case. In August last year, a team of Kerala police officers arrested a man from Punjab for forging and forging degree certificates for Swapna Suresh.

    He used this certificate to get a plush job at the state-run Space Park with the help of his close friend M. Sivasankar and former Principal Secretary to jailed Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

    Swapna was arrested by an NIA team in July 2020 on charges of gold smuggling from Bengaluru. Around the same time, news came that Swapna had not even passed class 10, but had managed to obtain a degree certificate from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University. It was alleged that he used this certificate along with his influence with high ranking officials like Sivasankar to get a plush job in the IT department headed by CM Vijayan.

    A case was registered against him, but the case did not last long. Last June he made some revelations that CM Vijayan, his wife and daughter were involved in gold smuggling, police are probing cases related to them. The police team reached Punjab and took Swapna’s certificate maker into custody.

    Since then, the police is working swiftly in the case, which will be heard by a local court on May 29.

    –IANS

  • Firefighter killed while dousing fire at Kerala government godown

    Firefighter killed while dousing fire at Kerala government godown

    Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) | A 33-year-old firefighter died on Tuesday while dousing a massive fire that broke out at a godown of the Kerala Medical Services Corporation Limited (KMSCL) on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram. KMSCL officials estimated the loss to be more than Rs one crore and the fire was completely brought under control after several hours.

    Locals said that they started hearing terrible noises when they saw that the godown was on fire.

    Fireman J.S. Ranjit reached the godown around 1.30 pm. A portion of the godown collapsed on top of him when it caught fire.

    Though his companions took him to the hospital, he could not be saved.

    Apart from medicines, there was a pile of chemicals in the godown.

    However, KMSCL MD Jeevan Babu said that at present he does not suspect any foul play.

    Babu said, investigation will be done and instructions have been given to segregate the chemicals kept in the godown.

    Incidentally, a similar fire broke out at the KMSCL Kollam godown last week and caused a loss of Rs eight crore.

    –IANS

  • Kerala an island of hope in ocean of hate: Pinarayi Vijayan

    Kerala an island of hope in ocean of hate: Pinarayi Vijayan

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has become an island of hope in an ocean of overpowering tendencies of dictatorship and a national atmosphere of growing communalism and hate, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Friday.

    “People are looking to the state with great hope,” he said in a statement released on the eve of the LDF government’s second anniversary. “Kerala will not compromise on values of secularism and democracy and will oppose the anti-people moves of communalism by introducing alternate programmes,” said the CM.

    “Although the government is now into its third year, this is also its eighth year in succession. The fruits of our action have reached every person through programmes aimed at controlling inflation, housing projects, issuance of titles, development of roads, schools, hospitals and welfare pension distribution. The government has taken the policy decision to both confront the issues of today and modernise the state to meet the needs of the future,” the CM said.

    “Since 2016, the government has built 3.5 lakh houses under the LIFE Mission project and issued around 3 lakh titles and 3.5 priority ration cards for the poor. Now, for the first time in the country, we have started implementing a project to eradicate extreme poverty.

    The government is establishing four science parks. We have also corrected the misconception that Kerala is not industry-friendly. Nissan, Airbus, Tech Mahindra, Taurus, Tata Elxsi and Safran had started operations here. We have also corrected the propaganda that the Left is against technical knowledge by declaring the internet as a right,” he added.

  • Kerala: NIA arrests PFI member accused of killing RSS leader Srinivasan

    Kerala: NIA arrests PFI member accused of killing RSS leader Srinivasan

    NEW DELHI: In a major breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another Popular Front of India (PFI) member who was wanted in the gruesome murder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Srinivasan in Kerala’s Palakkad district in April last year.

    The accused, Saheer KV, was absconding since the crime and was carrying a reward of Rs 4,00,000.

    An NIA Fugitive Tracking Team (FTT) tracked him to a relative’s house in Palakkad district and arrested him.

    A resident of Palakkad, Saheer was part of the PFI Assault and Protection Team that had carried out the targeted killing. Saheer was also responsible for providing protection to the main assailants of Srinivasan.

    NIA investigations showed that the accused, who was PFI’s Pattambi Area President, was involved in various conspiracies of the PFI leaders to eliminate Srinivasan, as part of the banned outfit’s bigger scheme to create terror among members of a particular community and to establish Islamic Rule in India by 2047.

    Earlier on March 17, the NIA filed a chargesheet against 59 accused, including the PFI as an organisation in the case. One of these accused, identified as Abdul Naser, died on January 2 this year, said the NIA, adding “Efforts are on to track and trace the remaining 11 absconding accused, out of the total of 59 identified as involved in the conspiracy so far.”

  • Kerala: Man arrested for sharing wife’s photo on sex chat app

    Kerala: Man arrested for sharing wife’s photo on sex chat app

    Kochi (IANS) | A man has been arrested for uploading a nude photo of his wife on a sex chat app in Kerala’s Thrissur district. Sebi, 33, who clicked the pictures with his mobile, is currently in police custody.

    Sebi has also been accused of physically harming his wife. For this, a complaint was also lodged against him.

    –IANS

  • Dispute between Kerala Police and KSEB over dues

    Dispute between Kerala Police and KSEB over dues

    Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) | A tussle has broken out between the state police and the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) over non-payment of dues. The problem started when the KSEB sent attachment notices to the Kerala Police saying that several police stations have not paid electricity bills for a long time. It pointed out that the payment to the Kerala Armed Police Battalion was due for the period 2004 to 2009. Angered by the attachment notice, the police headquarters wrote to KSEB demanding Rs 130 crore, which it owes to the police for the services rendered by the police in providing security to dams and KSEB offices.

    The two state departments are against each other, the matter is now before the Kerala government and talks have started at the highest level to resolve the issue.

    Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan holds the home portfolio, JD(S)’s K Krishnakutty is the state energy minister.

    –IANS

  • Bihar resident lynched in Kerala, eight arrested

    Bihar resident lynched in Kerala, eight arrested

    Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) | Rajesh Manjhi, a native of Bihar, was beaten to death at Kizhiseri in Malappuram district of Kerala. His body was found near a shop on Saturday morning. Police said that a native of Bihar, who had reached Malappuram as a daily wage earner, died of mob lynching. Malappuram District Superintendent of Police Sujit Das told media persons on Sunday that it was a clear case of mob lynching and the police have arrested eight accused.

    The police officer said the suspects told the police that they had found Rajesh in suspicious circumstances near a man’s residence in the early hours of Saturday. The local people caught hold of him and interrogated him.

    The Superintendent of Police said that people used iron rods, wooden sticks to attack Rajesh Manji. According to the police, the accused dragged him to a room. After some time one of the accused informed a local social worker. The workers who reached the spot took Rajesh Manjhi to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead.

    Police probe found that all the eight accused were involved in beating up Manjhi. Manjhi’s hands were tied and he was assaulted.

    Police have arrested eight people and are questioning a person who allegedly destroyed evidence, including a local CCTV camera, as well as deleted messages from the phones of the accused.

    –IANS

  • Doctor Killed By Patient In Kerala’s Kollam

    Doctor Killed By Patient In Kerala’s Kollam

    A doctor treating an injured patient was stabbed to death by the later at the hospital in Kerala’s Kollam on Wednesday, NDTV report said. The report said 23-year-old doctor was stabbed to death at a hospital in Kottarakkara area of Kollam district in Kerala allegedly by a man, a school teacher under suspension, who was brought there by police after being involved in a fight with his family members.

    It added while a wound on the leg of the man—identified as Sandeep—was being dressed by doctor Vandana Das, he suddenly got provoked and attacked everyone standing there using a scissor and scalpel.The incident occurred during the early hours of Wednesday morning and Das succumbed to her injuries a few hours later.

    “The brunt of the attack was borne by the young doctor while the police personnel who accompanied the man were also injured. The doctor was rushed to a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram but could not be saved,” it said.

    Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan condoled the death of the doctor and said the incident was “shocking and extremely painful”, it mentioned.

    It said both the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Kerala Government Medical Officers’ Association (KGMOA) doctors protested across the state against the incident.

    It stated that the Kerala State Human Rights Commission, based on media reports of the incident, on its own initiated a case and sought a report within seven days from the District Police Chief of Kollam.