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12/10/2016.        779.                 All Members,          Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Divine Shroud and An F.I.R. Charges of rape and murder levelled against a high-profile Christian spiritual centre in Kerala have brought Congress and CPI(M) together against the police and BJP. Ref : Media reports DRC at Muringur 1. It has all the trappings of a sensational criminal story-a high-profile spiritual centre, rocked by allegations of murder, rape, drug abuse. The Divine Retreat Centre (DRC) at Thrissur, Kerala-the country's largest Christian meditation and healing institution run by the Vincentian Catholic priests-which attracts over 10,000 people every day for its "divine" prayer and faith-healing sessions held simultaneously in seven languages, faces a series of stunning charges in an FIR filed by a special investigation team (SIT) of the Kerala p...

12/10/2016.        778.                 All Members,          Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Kerala : Missing persons probe has school under lens - Ref : Media reports - DECCAN CHRONICLE. Three out of twenty one Missing persons in Kerala KOCHI: The officials probing  the mysterious disappearance of 21 persons from Kerala have also examined  the functioning of a school in Kochi in which Merin Jacob alias Mariyam, who has converted to Islam, allegedly worked as a teacher. Mariyam and her husband Yahya (Benston) are among the missing persons. The investigation team has collected the details about the school located at  Chakkarapparambu,  Kochi, as well as at a school at Thathappally near Paravur as Mariyam worked in both the schools. Mariyam  was  brought back to Kochi by her parents from Mumbai in 2014 after learning that s...

12/10/2016.        777.                 All Members,          Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Need to step up coastal surveillance Part-2. Ref : Media Reports -THE HINDU Biju Govind 1. The Mumbai terror attacks stress the need for a coastal police station in Kozhikode. Kozhikode: As preliminary investigations reveal that Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives landed on the Maharashtra and Gujarat coasts undetected to carry out the latest terror attack on Mumbai, calls for strengthening the vulnerable coastline of Kerala will gain strength. 2. A major portion of the susceptible 590-km coastal stretch of the State lies in north Kerala. Kasaragod has 70 km of the coastline; Kannur, 82 km; Kozhikode, 71 km; Malappuram, 70 km; and Thrissur, 54 km. Senior police officers say the State government has to give top priority to safeguarding the coast from intrusi...

12/10/2016.        776.                 All Members,          Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : All you need to know about National Food Security Bill Part-3. Ref : Media Reports - First post Here are a few facts about the Bill: Merits and demerits : 1. • Crisil Research believes the proper implementation of the Bill "will lower spending on foodgrains by below poverty line households, and free up resources for spending on other goods and services, in particular health, education, and nutritious food." • It sees the Bill enabling an additional savings of around Rs 4,400 this year for each BPL household that begins to purchase subsidised food. This savings equals around 8 per cent and 5 per cent of the annual expenditure of a rural and urban household, respectively. • For rural households the savings amount exceeds their current annual medical ...