Karunakaran was shifted to a special ward from the ICU on September three after it was found that he was responding well to the treatment. The 90-year-old former Kerala Chief Minister was shifted back to ICU yesterday, Dr Lionel Gnanaraj, Superintendent of CMC told media persons.
Thirteen others were hurt when three coaches of the Amritsar-bound train caught fire and were completely gutted.
More suspected SARS patients have been detained in several places around the country.
The mayor of Chittoor was on Tuesday stabbed to death and her husband seriously injured by unidentified assailants, in an attack suspected to be a fallout of a family dispute, the police said.
'I am helpless and there is no one to help me.' 'I have been on this platform since Saturday.'
The ruling AIADMK is leaving no stone unturned to win the Vellore Lok Sabha poll and push its tally to two in the state, with its candidate even donning the skull cap to woo minority votes. But the DMK's stars are clearly on the ascendant in the lone constituency that goes to the polls on August 5. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
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