Following are the top stories from the southern region at 1800 HRS.
MDS1 KL-FISHERMEN-PROBE
Kochi: A team of officials from various departments begins investigating navigation records and other details of a merchant vessel, which allegedly hit an Indian fishing boat yesterday, leaving two fishermen dead.
MDS2 TN-POL-PANNEERSELVAM
Chennai: The panel to facilitate merger of the two AIADMK factions disbanded since Chief Minister K Palaniswami-led faction "enacted dramas" and also after considering people's views, says party rebel leader O Panneerselvam.
MDS3 KA-HERALD-RAHUL
Bengaluru: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi accuses the Modi government of "forcing everyone into silence" with Dalits being beaten up, minorities frightened and journalists and bureaucrats threatened.
MDS5 KA-HERALD-ANSARI
Bengaluru: Vice-President Hamid Ansari says a free media is not only beneficial but necessary in a free society and any attack on press freedom would result in jeopardising of citizen's rights.
MDS6 DIKSHIT-RAHUL
Bengaluru: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi disapproves his party leader Sandeep Dikshit likening Army Chief General Bipin Rawat to a "goon on the street", saying it was "absolutely wrong.
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