Missing of youth in Bhadra river: Body found after 12 days
Mangaluru-based engineer
Chikmagaluru, August 09: The body of an engineer hailed from Mangaluru who slipped into the Bhadra river at Ambathirtha near Kalasa town and was missing recently, was found at Magundi in NR Pura taluk on Thursday.
Thiran Kotian from Mangaluru was missing after he slipped into the river. On Thursday, local people fished out the body in front of the police after 12 days of the incident. But as the body was in the water for 12 days, it was difficult to identify it.
Resident of Tumbe in Mangaluru, Thiran was an engineer in a private company. He had come to Kalasa along with his 12 other friends after visiting Kudremukh and when they were trying to take the selfie on the rocks at Ambathirtha near the town, he slipped into the river and washed away.
Kalasa police along with fire brigade searched for the body for ten days. NDRF team and local divers also searched for the body. But they have failed to find the body. Later, the search operation was stopped.
But on Thursday afternoon, locals found that a body was floating in the river and informed the police. The police with the help of local people fished out the body and confirmed that it is the body of Thiran Kotian.
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Accept Congress decision appointing V D Satheesan as Kerala CM: K C Venugopal
Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi (PTI): Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal on Thursday accepted the party decision to select V D Satheesan as the chief minister of Kerala and congratulated him.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Venugopal, who was one of the three persons being considered for the post, said he will provide all support to the CM and the UDF government in Kerala.
The decision comes more than 10 days after the results of the April Assembly polls in Kerala were declared.
The Congress-led UDF secured a more than two-thirds majority in the Kerala Assembly elections, but the party has been unable to decide its chief ministerial face due to lobbying by different camps and protests by workers at the ground level.
Besides, Satheesan and Venugopal, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala was also in the race for the CM post.
