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Time of India
16-05-2025
- Time of India
Elderly man killed in road accident
Thiruvananthapuram: A 72-year-old man was killed after he was hit by a bike while crossing the road at Pullanivila on Thursday night. Police identified the deceased as Thankappan of Madathuvila at Pattom. He was crossing the road at Pullanivila Junction at 4pm. The bike rider soon escaped from the scene. People in the locality soon rushed him to the medical college hospital, where he died while under treatment. The body of Thankappan was handed over to relatives after a postmortem and inquest at the medical college hospital. Kazhakkoottam police began a probe after registering a case under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 106 (1) for causing death by negligence and 281 for rash driving. "The bike commuter has been identified from the CCTV visuals and he was served a notice to appear at the station," said police. According to data shared by the district crime records bureau, as many as 60 pedestrian deaths were reported in 2024 in the city and 50 and 45 deaths in 2023 and 2022, respectively. This year, nearly 30 pedestrians lost their lives on city roads so far.
The Hindu
16-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Modi is a coward who fears Nehruvian ideology: Palakkad DCC president
Palakkad District Congress Committee (DCC) president A. Thankappan described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a coward who fears Jawaharlal Nehru and Nehruvian ideology. Mr. Thankappan was speaking after inaugurating a rally and cultural resistance programme organised by the Congress's Samskara Sahiti outside the Head Post Office here on Friday. The programme was held in protest against the Modi government's decision to rename Nehru Yuva Kendra as Mera Yuva Bharat. The Congress leader criticised the move saying that it was part of the BJP's ongoing effort to erase Nehru's legacy from the country's history. The renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi was part of that move, he said. Mr. Thankappan said that while the government could remove Nehru's name from official records, it could never erase his legacy from the collective memory of the people where it has become deeply ingrained. Samskara Sahiti district chairman Boban Mattumantha presided over the function. State working chairman N.V. Pradeep Kumar, State general secretaries Annie Varghese and Pranavam Prasad, State committee members Tinu Thomas and C.K. Haridas, district convener N. Vinesh and district vice-presidents C.N. Sivadas and Kaladharan Uppumpadam spoke. 'The Sahiti will hold cultural resistance programmes in different parts of Palakkad to counter the BJP's attempts to erase Nehru's legacy from history,' said Mr. Mattumantha.
