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Two officials of the IndiGo airlines have been arrested by the customs department officials in Kerala’s Kozhikode International Airport (Karipur Airport) on September 15. The arrests have been made for alleged aiding in gold smuggling in the airlines. Reportedly, the accused allegedly helped in smuggling 4.9 Kg of gold worth Rs 2.5 crore. The gold was found in a passenger’s bag, who reportedly dropped it and fled.

Kerala court has granted bail to an accused in a sexual harassment case on the grounds that the victim was wearing “provocative dress”. Writer Civic Chandran (74) has been granted anticipatory bail by a sessions court in Kerala’s Kozhikode in a sexual harassment case. The court contended that the charges against the accused will prima facie not stand if the complainant was wearing a provocative dress.

The Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IIMK) and the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) have formed a partnership to promote marine start-ups. In order to strengthen efforts to develop an ecosystem for supporting marine entrepreneurs from technical, regulatory, financial, and marketing perspectives. Under this program, start-ups can get up to… read-more

Vlogger Rifa Mehnu's body has been exhumed from the cemetery, for the purpose of post-mortem, after her parents filed a complaint in Kerala's Kozhikode, against Rifa's husband for his alleged involvement in her death. Mehnu was found hanging in her flat in Dubai, on suspicious circumstances. The probe will now be extended after the post-mortem report. Mehnu's family has alleged that her husband physically and mentally tortured her.

The Nipah virus has now hounded health workers including a deceased boy's mother after they tested themselves in the National Institute of Virology, Pune. Notably, the report claims that all the health-staffs who are infected were involved in the treatment of a 12-year-old. However, this devastating variant is raising the concern day by day in Kozhikode as the rate of infection rises to 251.