Palakkad Attack

Three days after Kerala's local body election results were announced, the state's Palakkad town, which went to the BJP for a second consecutive time, continued to witness ugly shows of strength by political rivals. On Friday, 11 CPIM activists were arrested for allegedly attacking BJP-RSS workers and vandalism during a political procession.

The National Investigation Agency has been granted four-day custody of a terror suspect who was arrested last week on charges of planning a suicide attack in Kerala.

A day after a 27-year-old "mentally unfit" tribal man in Kerala's Attapady died after being beaten up by a mob, at least 16 people have been arrested in Palakkad district.

In a stark display of depravity, people at a village in Kerala took selfies with a man they tied up and assaulted for hours, accusing him of shop-lifting. The 27-year-old man died while being taken to hospital by the police.

Hit by the global ransomware cyberattack, as many as 23 computers of the Southern Railway Divisional Office in Palakkad district were disabled today, said railway officials here.

In a fresh round of political violence in Kerala, a CPM youth activist was attacked with sharp weapons in Palakkad on Thursday. 30-year-old Ratheesh and his friend are in hospital. Ratheesh has named three BJP activists in his complaint to the police.

A young man who was attacked, filmed and targeted with a video on social media by moral vigilantes on Valentine's Day, was found hanging outside his home in Kerala's Palakkad district on Thursday. A suicide note been has found in which he has cited the harassment on Valentine's Day as the reason for taking the extreme step, police said.

Hundreds of people gathered at the home of Lt Colonel Niranjan Kumar in Kerala's Palakkad on Tuesday morning to bid farewell to the National Security Guard officer, who died on Sunday while defusing a grenade after terrorists attacked an air force base in Pathankot.

Lieutenant Colonel Niranjan Kumar's body will today be taken from Bengalaru to his home town Palakkad in Kerala, where last rites are expected to be performed tomorrow morning for the NSG commando who was martyred in Pathankot on Sunday.

The body of an NSG officer, martyred in the operation at the Indian Air Force base in Punjab's Pathankot town, will be brought back to his hometown near Palakkad on Monday for the last rites, a relative said today.

An alert has been sounded at all check posts in Nilgiris district following the suspected Maoist attacks in Palakkad and Wayanad districts of Kerala, bordering the state, early today, police said.

Suspected Maoists today attacked offices of forest department in Palakkad and Waynad districts in Kerala in the wee hours. No one was hurt in both the incidents.

Three days after Kerala's local body election results were announced, the state's Palakkad town, which went to the BJP for a second consecutive time, continued to witness ugly shows of strength by political rivals. On Friday, 11 CPIM activists were arrested for allegedly attacking BJP-RSS workers and vandalism during a political procession.

The National Investigation Agency has been granted four-day custody of a terror suspect who was arrested last week on charges of planning a suicide attack in Kerala.

A day after a 27-year-old "mentally unfit" tribal man in Kerala's Attapady died after being beaten up by a mob, at least 16 people have been arrested in Palakkad district.

In a stark display of depravity, people at a village in Kerala took selfies with a man they tied up and assaulted for hours, accusing him of shop-lifting. The 27-year-old man died while being taken to hospital by the police.

Hit by the global ransomware cyberattack, as many as 23 computers of the Southern Railway Divisional Office in Palakkad district were disabled today, said railway officials here.

In a fresh round of political violence in Kerala, a CPM youth activist was attacked with sharp weapons in Palakkad on Thursday. 30-year-old Ratheesh and his friend are in hospital. Ratheesh has named three BJP activists in his complaint to the police.

A young man who was attacked, filmed and targeted with a video on social media by moral vigilantes on Valentine's Day, was found hanging outside his home in Kerala's Palakkad district on Thursday. A suicide note been has found in which he has cited the harassment on Valentine's Day as the reason for taking the extreme step, police said.

Hundreds of people gathered at the home of Lt Colonel Niranjan Kumar in Kerala's Palakkad on Tuesday morning to bid farewell to the National Security Guard officer, who died on Sunday while defusing a grenade after terrorists attacked an air force base in Pathankot.

Lieutenant Colonel Niranjan Kumar's body will today be taken from Bengalaru to his home town Palakkad in Kerala, where last rites are expected to be performed tomorrow morning for the NSG commando who was martyred in Pathankot on Sunday.

The body of an NSG officer, martyred in the operation at the Indian Air Force base in Punjab's Pathankot town, will be brought back to his hometown near Palakkad on Monday for the last rites, a relative said today.

An alert has been sounded at all check posts in Nilgiris district following the suspected Maoist attacks in Palakkad and Wayanad districts of Kerala, bordering the state, early today, police said.

Suspected Maoists today attacked offices of forest department in Palakkad and Waynad districts in Kerala in the wee hours. No one was hurt in both the incidents.