Thiruvananthapuram: Ace comedian Jagathy Sreekumar Thursday filed a petition seeking Rs.10.50 crore compensation in the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal court here. The comedian was seriously injured in a road accident March 10 last year near Kozhikode in Kerala while travelling to a shooting location on the Kerala-Karnataka border.
For almost a year, he was under treatment at the Christian Medical College Hospital at Vellore in Tamil Nadu. He only returned home to Kerala last month.
The comedian has still to recover his speech. In a petition that he filed with the accident claims tribunal, he has arraigned the car driver, its owner and the insurance company as opposite parties.
In a career that began in the early 1970s, Jagathy donned make-up in more than 1,100 films, becoming an integral part of the Malayalam film industry. In 2011 alone, of the 70 Malayalam films that found its way to theatres, Jagathy acted in 24. ...
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11:46 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Kozhikode: Three NIT-Kozhikode students hailing from Andhra Pradesh were killed and four others injured when their car collided with a lorry near Vadakara in the district on Sunday, police said. The students of the National Institute of Technology here were proceeding to a nearby place on a weekend trip when the mishap occurred at Kainatti Punchirimillil. The deceased were identified as Harish (21), Raju (19) and Hitesh (21) police said....
04:10 PM, Apr 07, 2013
The kingpin of an inter-state chain snatching gang based in New Delhi has been arrested from Delhi and brought in Kozhikode on Tuesday, police said. The kingpin identified as Haji Naziruddin Sony (46) was arrested on March 31, 2013 from Gokulpuri in New Delhi by a police team from Kerala with the help of their Delhi counterparts, Kozhikode City Commissioner of Police, Sparjankumar, told reporters. ...
01:45 AM, Apr 03, 2013
The culprits behind the rape of a three-year old girl at Tirur in this district had been identified and would be nabbed very soon, Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said on Thursday. In a brief interaction with mediapersons, the Home Minister said the police probe into the incident was progressing satisfactorily and that all out efforts are being made to nab the culprits. ...
06:44 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The actor underwent four major surgeries in April after a fatal accident. ...
10:15 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Kerala High Court on Monday stayed the trial against 15 accused, including KK Rageesh, MLA and CPI(M) state committee member, in the case relating to the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader TP Chandrasekharan. Justice VK Mohanan issued the order while admitting the plea of the 15 accused. ...
06:07 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Kozhikode: Newly elected Malabar Chamber of Commerce Secretary and renowned businessman PP Nazir Ahamed was found dead at nearby Chevayoor on Saturday in a suspected case of murder, police said. The body of 50-year old Ahamed with multiple injuries was found lying at roadside and his car found abandoned a few kms away from the spot, they said. Ahamed was elected Secretary of the chamber on Friday at its annual...
10:10 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Nine people lost their lives due to landslides and heavy rains in north Kerala over the past two days. In Iritty, Kannur district, the overflowing of the Pazhassi dam has been fixed, but a majority of the town is still submerged. An assistant engineer attached to the Pazhassi dam was suspended for dereliction of duty after a department level enquiry was conducted. On Tuesday, the dam overflowed causing...
10:24 AM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: A landslide following heavy rains in the Kozhikode (Calicut) district of Kerala killed eight people on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, the town of Iritty in Kannur district was almost submerged under water as the shutters of the Pazhassi dam in the area could not be opened. About 30 houses were reportedly washed away in flash floods in the region. Several people were relocated to safer places. The Home Minister...
09:38 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Kozhikode: He left with a promise that he would return to the city to sing again. And when the news broke amongst music lovers in the city of Mehdi Hassans demise on Wednesday, it was also confirmation that it was a promise he would not be able to keep. Hassan had performed at the Tagore Centenary Hall in 2002 - reportedly his last in India - and the performance came...
11:01 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Malayalam film director K Haridas today said there is good response from the public to his new film 'Veendum Kannur'. Speaking to media persons here, he said the film, released in about 38 theatres across Kerala on last friday, he said reports from various centres painted an encouraging picture of the public response. The film would be releaesed in another 22 theatres next week, he said. Actor Anoop Menon and...
12:25 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Kozhikode: In a shocking incident in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, former Kerala CPM leader T P Chandrasekharan, who was expelled from the party a few years back, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants. The incident took place at Vallikkad in Kozhikode district on Friday night. Chandrasekharan, 50, was riding a bike when he was attacked by the assailants. The assailants first hurled country-made bombs at him and then...
08:45 AM, May 05, 2012
Kozhikode: An Air India plane with 150 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing at the Kozhikode airport in Kerala after being hit by a bird. The AI-973 Kozhikode-Dubai flight made an emergency landing at the airport shortly after the mishap on Monday morning. All the 150 people on board are reported to be safe. The bird hit was reported at 10:40 am with the pilot soon...
12:27 PM, Apr 30, 2012
KOCHI: The recent haul of a large consignment of cough syrup from a wholesale drug store in Kozhikode sheds light on the illegal sale of such syrups and tablets as sedatives targeting the younger generation. Apart from the cough syrup, Nitravet (an inducing agent for treating insomnia), Trica (used against anxiety and nervous disorders), Frisium (used in the management of anxiety, agitation or tension) and Spasmoproxyvon (pain killer) are the...
11:38 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Kochi: A rude shock awaited passengers of an Alliance Air flight when they found the pilot had landed at Kochi though they were told they had reached their destination Kozhikode. The Thiruvananthapuram-Kozhikode-Kochi-Agatti flight with 23 passengers landed at Kochi at 10.30 AM on Monday without proceeding to Kozhikode as the crew was likely to cross the Flight Duty Time Limit (FDTL) if it was operated on schedule, Air India sources...
04:30 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Kozhikode: Minister for Social Welfare MK Muneer will declare Kozhikode a Child beggars-free city on Saturday. The efforts by the authorities towards the elimination of child beggary and child labour in the city achieved success and this led to the child-beggar-free proclamation, said city police officials. In a week-long drive conducted by the city police in various places under the 15 police station limits, only four cases of child beggary...
10:40 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Mumbai: Candidates, who cleared the CAT this year, would want to know which is the best B-School in India to apply to. CNBC-TV18 is out with its annual B-School rankings study. IIM Ahmedabad has again topped the list of CNBC-TV18's annual B-school rankings, but IIM-Bangalore is close on the heels. The fourth edition of the CNBC-TV18's 'India's Best B-Schools 2012' ranking covered 145 B-Schools and 235 recruiters, making it one...
07:47 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Kochi: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode on Tuesday said that over 100 firms, including Global Power house brands like Deutche bank, Citibank, softdrinks majors, MNCs and even a top tier IPL team, have made summer internship offers to 343 students of its flagship PGP programme. In the two year programme, after the first year, every student has to undertake 8-week internship in an organisation. This is the first time...
08:53 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition of Leader of Opposition VS Achuthanandan for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into what has come to be known as the Kozhikode ice cream parlour sex case, involving state minister PK Kunhalikutty. The court had earlier this month asked Kerala Police to submit its case diary and investigation report in the sex scandal that dates back to the...
11:50 AM, Sep 27, 2011
Kochi: Two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists Thadiyantavide Naseer and Shafas have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2006 Kozhikode blast case. The CBI special court in Kochi on Friday pronounced the quantum of punishment in the twin blast case. The first accused Nazeer and fourth accused Shafas were found guilty for waging war against the nation, state and the government. The twin blasts in Kozhikode took place on March 3,...
01:42 PM, Aug 12, 2011
