P. Ashok Kumar

In a scene more common in a household than at a police station, senior officers applied sandalwood and vermilion on the women’s foreheads, showered them with flower petals, and offered blessings for safe delivery.

Two days after an overseer of the engineering wing of Thiruvananthapuram corporation filed a complaint against BJP councillor P Ashok Kumar for allegedly assaulting her and injuring her arm, the BJP councillor has filed a counter complaint against the overseer.

The city corporation might face serious trouble as the local fund audit has decided to revert the account statement filed by the corporation for 2011-12, citing grave errors.

Two men on a motorcycle brutally attacked a youth at a busy junction in daylight and none of the witnesses alerted the police.

For the second time in a row, the corporation council that met here on Tuesday dispersed following heated exchanges between members over the three-week-old scuffle between the corporation staff and UDF councillors.

Mayor Arya Rajendran on Thursday denied permission to BJP councillor P Ashok Kumar during the council meeting to present an adjournment motion seeking council's representation to the state government to identify land for AIIMS in the city itself.

The Madurai High Court has asked the Tamil Nadu State Government to respond to a petition which asks for more than 10,000 government jobs to be filled from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities. The petition was filed by Pashok Kumar, a resident of Dindigul district. Mr. Kumar claims that the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department passed a government order in April of 2022 to fill up nearly 10,000 vacant posts reserved for people from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities. However, he claims that no steps have been taken to fill the backlog vacancies.

Nellore police on Friday arrested four recovery agents of a loan app company after they allegedly made threatening calls to agriculture minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy and former minister Anil Kumar Yadav demanding that they repay loan of Rs 8.5 lakh.

A couple from Nepal escaped after stealing gold and diamond jewellery worth over Rs 70 lakh and a licensed revolver from their employer's residence in JP Nagar, south Bengaluru.

The state government on Saturday suspended one more secretariat employee for sharing a social media post criticizing chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Facebook. O P Ashok Kumar, a binder with law department, who is currently working with official language commission, was placed under suspension by law secretary Aravinda Babu P K.

A teaching and training programme of orthopaedics postgraduates and junior consultant doctors is being organised at the Andhra Medical College (AMC) over the weekend. The programme is being held under the aegis of the Orthopaedic Surgeons Society of Andhra Pradesh, Indian Orthopaedic Association and Dr NTR University of Health Sciences.

In the wake of the ensuing assembly polls, the district police have begun to prepare a list of habitual offenders in the district to ensure peaceful election.

The LDF ruling council, which is already nursing jitters in the presence of BJP councillors owing to its fragile majority, is going through a phase of uncertainty as the cases pertaining to election results at Vanchiyoor and Estate ward are likely to conclude this month.

The special court for TNPID (Tamil Nadu Protection of Interests of Depositors (in financial establishments) Act cases on Friday sentenced five convicts to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for cheating 22 depositors of Rs 54.64 lakh by running an emu farm near Kangeyam in Tirupur district.

King George Hospital will have additional facilities in a week as the hospital administration has planned to set up six additional Outpatient (OP) counters, and AMCUs in Rajendra Prasad ward and geriatric ward which would be inaugurated on Feb. 4.

KGH Superintendent P Ashok Kumar took leave after an FIR was filed against him for sexual harassment. Police may conduct a potency test on him at KGH. His wife, Dr. Aruna Devi, was transferred to VIMS Emergency Department. Temporary Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Vani assumed the role of Superintendent at KGH.