: Top stories from the Southern region at 2100 hrs today:
MDS4 KL-CLEANLINESS DRIVE-SCHOOLS
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan reaches out to school heads to ensure participation of teachers and students in the government's massive cleanliness drive to check the spread of diseases in the state.
MDS5 TN-STALIN-RAJIV-PAROLE
Chennai: Leader of Opposition and DMK Working President M K Stalin asks why the Tamil Nadu government was hesitant to allow Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A G Perarivalan to be released on parole.
MDS7 LANKA-2ND LD FISHERMEN
Rameswaram: As many as 25 Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested by Sri Lankan Navy in two separate incidents on charges of fishing in the territorial waters of the island nation today, drawing angry reaction from state government.
MDS8 KL-FARMER-PROBE
Thiruvananthapuram: Three days after a farmer allegedly ended his life due to "harassment" by village officials in Kozhikode, Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) P H Kurien visits the Village Administrative Office, where his body was found, and collected evidence.
MES7 AP-TEMPLE-CJI
Tirupati: Chief Justice of India Justice Jagadish Singh Khehar offeres prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here.
BOM14 TL-PREZ-DATTATREYA
Hyderabad: Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya seeks to know why the Congress did not make Babu Jagjivan Ram Prime Minister and his daughter Meira Kumar president when the party was in power.
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