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A local court has convicted serial killer ''Cyanide'' Mohan, holding him guilty in the rape and murder of a young woman from Kasaragod in Kerala in 2009.

Telangana State Health Minister Eatala Rajendra launched a scathing attack on Centre saying that the State had asked for 1,000 ventilators but only 50 ventilators have been provided so far, moreover the minister claimed that the machine that was ordered by the state was diverted to Kolkata by ICMR on orders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A man was arrested for allegedly injuring his baby girl by slapping and throwing her on a cot in Kerala, the police said. The child has been admitted to a hospital and is in a critical condition, they added.

In a scathing attack against the Congress in the state, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan questioned if the motive of the protests or insults by office bearers of the party in the state was "witch-hunting". His remarks come after the state Congress chief Mullappally Ramachandran mocked Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja, calling her "COVID Rani". The senior leader had earlier called her "Nipah Rajkumari" during the deadly outbreak in 2018.

Congress Kerala chief Mullapally Ramachandran, who sparked a row over his remarks against state Health Minister KK Shailaja on Saturday said he stood by his words and there was no question of apologising.

Tamil Nadu reported a record single-day spike of 2,396 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, recording over 2,000 infections for a fourth straight day as the overall tally rose to 56,845 in the state, the Health department said.

Karnataka government asked to explain how it distributed Rs 5,000 each to 1.25 lakh migrant construction labourers despite lacking basic contact details such as names, addresses or even the districts in which they lived

The country should send a message to the security forces guarding the borders that it stood with them, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said on Friday as he announced compensation for the families of 20 soldiers killed in the Indo-China faceoff in Ladakh.

The ruling YSR Congress bagged all the four Rajya Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh in the biennial election held on Friday.

Amid calls for boycott of Chinese products in the backdrop of Indo-China border face-off, former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy sought to know from the BJP government in Karnataka the status of the "Compete with China" policy brought during the previous JDS-Congress rule.

The Tamil Nadu government has withdrawn within a week the controversial order changing the English spellings of 1,018 places in the state after the decision and the timing of it amid the coronavirus pandemic had garnered mixed responses. The state had changed the spellings to reflect the Tamil pronunciation and spelling of these places.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today said that the state government is in talks to provide TrueNat testing kits to expats in gulf countries where adequate COVID -19 testing facilities are not available.

The ruling AIADMK's flagship Amma Canteens will provide free food for 12 days from Friday onwards in Chennai and three neighbouring districts where the lockdown curbs are being tightened to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Chief Minister K Palaniswami said.

The ruling AIADMK's flagship Amma Canteens will provide free food for 12 days from Friday onwards in Chennai and three neighbouring districts where the lockdown curbs are being tightened to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Chief Minister K Palaniswami said.

Legislators who helped the BJP topple Karnataka's Congress-Janata Dal Secular (JDS) coalition government last year have been rewarded by the party while picking candidates for the elections to seven seats of the state legislative council due on June 29.