Senior politician Cherkalam Abdullah passes away
Kasargod: Senior politician and former minister Cherkalam Abdullah, 76, passed away at his home on Friday morning.
Cherkalam Abdullah, who was admitted to a private hospital in Mangaluru for the last few days, was brought to the home late yesterday night as per doctors’ opinion. He breathed his last at his residence at 8:20 am today.
The former legislator of Manjeshwar Cherkalam Abdullah was the treasurer of the Muslim League in the state.
Cherkalam, who was a prominent leader of the Congress-led Muslim league, was elected as MLA from Manjeshwar for four times from 1987 to 2001 and was Minister of State in the AK Antony cabinet in 2001.
Cherkalam Abdulla, a resident of Cherkala in Kasargod, had entered the assembly in 1987 by defeating BJP's H. Shankar Alva. With this victory, the Congress-led UDF entered into the Manjeshwara Assembly constituency. UDF once again won the polls in 1992 when the Muslim league leader Cherkalam defeated the most popular BJP leader KG Marar by a margin of 1,072 votes.
Cherkalam, who was elected for the third time by defeating BJP’s CK Padmanabhan in 1996, repeated the triumph over CK Padmanabhan in 2001 and entered into the assembly for the fourth term. Cherkalam, who served as the Muslim League and UDF district president for many years, won the Kannadigas by stirring up Kannada at the Assembly session.
Cherkalam Abdullah is the first MLA to be sworn-in in the Kannada language in Kerala Legislative Assembly.
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DHL cargo plane crashes in Lithuania
Vilnius (AP/PTI): A DHL cargo plane crashed Monday morning near the Lithuanian capital.
The Lithuanian airport authority identified the aircraft as a “DHL cargo plane flying from Leipzig, Germany, to Vilnius Airport.”
It posted on the social platform X that city services including a fire truck were on site.
DHL Group, headquartered in Bonn, Germany, did not immediately return a call for comment.
