
Police to step up vigil against drug peddlers
The Hindu
Move in the wake of public protest in Payyoli
Following a mass public protest, the police have intensified their vigil against suspected drug peddlers within Payyoli municipality limits. A people's vigilance committee has also been formed to support the police covering abandoned buildings and isolated street corners.
Efforts are under way to install additional closed circuit television cameras in public places to improve surveillance. Many local residents and traders have expressed their willingness to set up remote surveillance measures to monitor miscreants.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











