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Kerala Police to deploy 18,741 personnel for Sabarimala pilgrimage season

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 14 (UNI) The Kerala Police have completed comprehensive preparations to ensure a safe and smooth Sabarimala Mandala–Makaravilakku pilgrimage, which begins on November 17, the first day of the Malayalam month of Vrischikam.
A total of 18,741 police personnel, including senior officers and civil police staff, will be on duty throughout the festival season at the world famous Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala.
A six-phase security plan has been drawn up, and operations have been divided across the Nilakkal, Pampa, and Sannidhanam zones.
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Stalin flays BJP-led government for trying to rechristen, restructure MGNREGS scheme and punish TN with reduced allocation

15 Dec 2025 | 10:15 PM

Chennai, Dec 15 (UNI) Flaying the BJP-led Government at the Centre for trying to rechristen and restructure the MGNREGS scheme with a Sanskrit nomenclature that could be difficult to pronounce, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin today it was an attempt to dismantle, destroy the scheme and punish the State with reduced fund allocation for completely eradicating poverty.

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Shamanur Shivashankarappa cremated with full state honours

15 Dec 2025 | 8:50 PM

Davanagere, Dec 15 (UNI) The last rites of senior Congress leader and former minister Dr Shamanur Shivashankarappa were performed with full state honours at the Kalleshwara Mill premises here on Monday following Veerashaiva-Lingayat traditions.

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Karnataka legislators pay tributes to late Shivashankarappa

15 Dec 2025 | 8:47 PM

Bengaluru, Dec 15 (UNI) Karnataka legislators on Monday paid rich tributes to veteran Congress leader and philanthropist Shamanuru Shivashankarappa, remembering him as a towering personality who transformed Davanagere into a major centre of education and industry through decades of public life and charity.

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Visakhapatnam Spying case: NIA Court awards sentence to two more accused

15 Dec 2025 | 8:29 PM

New Delhi December 15(UNI): A special NIA court awarded five years eleven months and fifteen days sentence to two more accused in the Pakistan-linked Visakhapatnam Navy spying case. This takes the total number of convictions in the case so far to 10. Trial is continuing against the remaining five accused arrested by NIA in the case.

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AP: YSRCP’s massive rally against medical Colleges privatization

15 Dec 2025 | 8:15 PM

Kakinada, Dec 15 (UNI) YSR Congress party staged a massive rally in the main road from Bhanugudi junction to YS Rajasekhara Reddy statue in Balaji cheruvu center on Monday, as a part of the agitation against the government’s decision to privatize the Government medical colleges under the pretext of PPP policy.
The massive rally was organized as a part of the programme to transport the bundles containing one crore signatures mobilized from various constituencies to the party office in Kakinada and from there to the party headquarters in Thadepalli for submitting them to the Governor.

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