Kochi: Four killed in a landslide in Kalamassery. The deceased were residents of West Bengal. All those at risk are guest workers.
Five of them were rescued. The accident happened a short while ago in Electronic City. The search is on for those trapped in the soil. Those rescued from the ground have been admitted to Kalamassery Medical College Hospital. While digging for construction work, the landslide caused the body of the workers to fall into the pit.

The rescue operation is being carried out very diligently considering the possibility of another landslide. The first attempt was to use JCB to remove the trapped people by removing the soil.

Thiruvananthapuram: The public education department has taken steps to reduce the workload of higher secondary school principals. The action was taken on the instructions of Public Education and Labor Minister V Sivankutty.

The teaching work of principals of government-aided higher secondary schools in the state has been fixed at eight periods per week. If there are junior teachers who have less than the required period in those schools, they will be given up to 14 periods to teach the 8 periods after the subject to be taught by the principal.

In cases where such teachers are not available, the previous order appointing teachers on a daily basis will be implemented immediately.

Thiruvananthapuram: This time KSEB’s electronic cars to make the International Film Festival eco-friendly. The e-cars, which are in service 24 hours a day, were handed over to the Electricity Board Film Academy to be used for the official needs of the fair.
 KSEB-CMD Dr. B Ashok and Chalachithra Academy Chairman Ranjith flagged off the event. Ranjith, chairman of the academy, said such initiatives are an investment in a secure future.

Thiruvananthapuram: The signature film at the International Film Festival is about the survival of a time when the covid epidemic, civil wars, and economic crisis were destroying peace.  The film conveys the message of cinema and its hope, which remained a beacon in times of crisis.  The signature film prepared by Mujeeb Math describes the International Film Festival shining a new light of hope and celebration in Kerala, which has been constantly challenged by floods and epidemics.

Kannur: Nizam (35), the main accused in the case of arresting a couple with MDMA and brown sugar worth Rs 1 crore from the parcel office of a travel agency, has been arrested. The accused was apprehended while traveling in a car from Hosangadi in the border area of ​​Kasargod district around 12.30 pm on Tuesday. He was produced before the Kannur Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court and remanded. During interrogation, SPR Elango said he had confessed to supplying drugs, including MDMA, to the Afzal-Balkis couple, who had been arrested earlier.
 Balkis and Afzal, a couple previously arrested in a drug case, will be remanded in custody for questioning. The arrested Nizam is a close relative of Balkis. Another accused in the case, Janice, is absconding and the search for him has intensified. A check of Nizam’s bank account and mobile phone revealed that he had made the transaction.
 Using WhatsApp messages and a Google map, Balkis specified the places where Nizam could be taken to drug dealers. Balkis was paid a commission and incentive for each transaction via Google Pay. The goods were delivered only after receiving the price of the drug from the customers through Google Pay. The SP said that it was clear that the Nizam was involved in five of the seven drug cases seized from Kannur district at Edakkad and Kannur city police stations.
 On March 7, Balkis and Afzal were arrested for possession of two kilograms of MDMA and opium. Later, the police raided a drug store in Kannur and found lakhs worth of deadly drugs. Another accused and Balkis’ close relative, Kannur City Marakkar, is absconding. The arrested Nizam is the son of the remanded Balkin’s uncle.