Kerala IG loses job for Gulf trip THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior IPS officer Tomin J Thachankary,who is facing charges of making a foreign trip without prior permission,was on Friday removed from his post based on a departmental probe. The IG (Kannur range) has not been given any fresh posting for the time being,according to Home Department sources. IG (DCRB) Sudesh Kumar had been given charge of the Kannur Range in place of Thachankary. 2 held for blast at Mathura godown LUCKNOW: The Mathura police,on Friday,arrested an army havildar and a scrap dealer holding them responsible for the blast at a scrap godown which claimed six lives in Govind Nagar area on Wednesday. The arrest was made following interrogation of the scrap dealers in the area. The police said that havildar Hardum Singh had picked up three missed shells of a rocket launcher from the Mahajan field firing range in Rajasthan in 1998. He sold them to the scrap dealer at Rs 250 each. Air India flies female crocodile to Chennai CHENNAI: An endangered female Tomistoma crocodile was transported by Air India from Kamala Nehru Zoo in Ahmedabad to Chennai on Friday. An airline press release said the reptile,known as the False Gharial,was brought here free-of-cost as a goodwill gesture. Air Indias gesture follows a request from Madras Crocodile Bank Trust,home to many crocodiles,to help transport it to the city. The female crocodile will be paired with a male of its kind Psycho. EC wants all photo IDs by year-end NEW DELHI: Poll officials should make concerted efforts to achieve 100 per cent coverage of electors photo identity cards (EPIC) and photo electoral rolls (PER) by the year-end in order to prevent impersonation during polls,the Election Commission has said. In a directive to Chief Electoral Officers of all states and Union Territories,the EC asked them to put in place a mechanism to monitor station-wise progress. Party revolt: AICC summons Lapang SHILLONG: Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang whose ouster is being demanded by Congress dissidents,on Friday rushed to New Delhi for the third time within a month to meet senior AICC leaders. AICC was earlier learnt to have given him more time to garner majority support in the Congress Legislature Party following a revolt by a dissident group to oust him. Lapang left Shillong for Delhi on Friday morning,party sources said. Shoaib moves HC over passport HYDERABAD: Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik on Friday moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court to direct the Central Crime Station police here to release his passport. The Banjara Hills police had seized Shoaibs passport while investigating a complaint lodged by his first former wife Ayesha Siddiqui. Justice C V Nagarjuna Reddy reserved his judgement for Monday.
