The Bharatiya Janata Party is hopeful that the issue will come handy to its efforts to gain political traction in Dravidian state as it gears up for the Lok Sabha polls.
Bodies of 26 people who drowned after two boats capsized in Bihar were recovered on Tuiesday even as a search was on to trace around 50 missing people, the police said.
Owner of the boat 'Kuber', that was used in the 26/11 terror attack, has served a legal notice on film director Ram Gopal Verma who has used the boat's name and even its registration number in his film 'Attack of 26/11', which will release on Friday.
'Our producer Adi Chopra really wanted a proper kiss in the film... ' 'But Rani was not comfortable. She said, yes, but was so awkward and conscious!'
Sports Minister V Abdurahiman said 20 deaths were confirmed on the basis of information from various hospitals where those pulled out from the water and inside the boat were admitted.
A case under Section 301 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against him.
The boat owned by the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation, which sank in Thekkady in Sepetmeber, was designed to carry only 42 people, a top expert said on Wednesday. S K Pyarelal, head of CUSAT shipping department who on Tuesday submitted his report on the technical aspects of the doomed 'Jalakanayaka', said there were at least 87 passengers in the boat at the time of the mishap on September 30.The design of the vessel was 'wrong', he said.
Pakistan's army on Thursday used helicopters and boats to rescue thousands of stranded people as the country grapples with the deadliest floods in its history that have killed over 260 people and affected over a million others in Punjab and PoK.
The boat was carrying labourers from Singhighat, about 20 km from the district headquarters, when it lost balance and\n\ncapsized.
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.'
The sailors, who belong to Gujarat's Saurashtra and Kutch regions, had anchored last in the rebel territory of Kismayo in Somalia where they loaded cargo onto their boats. But soon after, they were taken hostage. The pirates have, however, till now not demanded any ransom.
DIG B K Loshali has been removed as the chief of staff at northwest region.
