Gopalakrishna Kurup is new AG
The Hindu
T.A. Shaji appointed Director General of Prosecution
Senior High Court lawyers K. Gopalakrishna Kurup and T.A. Shaji will be the new Advocate General (AG) and Director General of Prosecution respectively at the High Court. The decision in this regard was taken by the new Cabinet on Thursday. Mr. Kurup and Mr. Shaji will succeed K. Sudharara Prasad and Manjeri Sreedharan Nair who have resigned from the posts of the AG and Director General of Prosecution following the swearing in of the new LDF government.A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.