Author: NE Reporter

  Rio de Janeiro: Ranked No 10 in the world, P.V. Sindhu beat Japan’s rising.

Thiruvananthapuram: Tomin J Thachankary, Senior IPS officer and Transport Commissioner was removed from his post by Kerala cabinet today in accordance with the demand from Transport Minister A K Saseendran. He has not been assigned a new post.

Udupi (Karnataka): A BJP worker who was transporing cows in a vehicle was beaten to death by a crowd of cow vigilantes belonging to Hindu Jagarana Vedike (HJV), Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), in Udupi in Karnataka on Wednesday night.

Beirut: A photograph of a boy sitting dazed and bloodied in the back of an ambulance after an airstrike in the ongoing Syrian civilian war has reminded the world about the horrors of war.
Released by the Syrian opposition activists, the image is being widely shared on social media.

Rio de Janeiro: The 23-year-old woman wrestler Sakshi Malik ended India’s agonizing wait for a medal at the Rio Olympic Games by winning the bronze in the women’s 58kg freestyle category. Sakshi beat Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan 8-5.

Thiruvananthapuram: Consumerfed, an agency of Kerala state government, will start the online retail sale of liquor. This initiative will begin with Kerala’s Onam Festival season.

There will not be any home delivery. Customers who make payment online can get the stuff across the counter on producing the cash receipt. Customers can buy 59 brands online , mostly premium products

Kochi: Sajini Mathew, a low-profile social worker from rural Kerala who brought up more than a hundred destitute girls and empowered them will be honoure with the Social Service Award-2015 instituted by Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika, a sister publication of The New Indian Express, at a function to be held in Kochi on August 20.

New Delhi: Supreme Court today issued a notice to the Maharashtra Government and Centre on an appeal which challenged the Judgment of the Bombay High Court that allowed possession and consumption of beef brought into Maharashtra from outside the State.

Rio de Janeiro: Two-time World Championship bronze medallist P V Sindhu of India beat London Games silver medallist Wang Yihan of China to enter the women’s singles semifinals at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday.

Thiruvananthapuram/Kozhikode: Kerala’s Transport Commissioner Tomin J Thachankary, who played music and sold a booklet on Guitar before he turned to civil services, has never faced music before, literally. But Thachankary who has never played second fiddle to anyone other than a few chosen leaders of CPM, may have to face music if his Department Minister A K Saseendran can prevail upon Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.