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Directive on admissions to CAPE colleges

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Students who have applied for admission in the management quota in the five engineering colleges under the Cooperative Academy of Professional Education (CAPE), should opt for the "Full fee" seats also in the respective colleges while registering their options with the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, according to a press note from the CAPE here on Wednesday. The note added that separate applications were being invited for the NRI seats in these colleges. — Special Correspondent

Uday Balakrishnan

is new PMG

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Uday Balakrishnan is the new Chief Postmaster General (PMG), Kerala Circle. He is an officer of the 1975 Indian Postal Service. Earlier, he has served as Director of Postal Services, Principal of Postal Training Centre, Director in the Ministry of Labour and as Postmaster General. He was Registrar of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for over six years. — Staff Reporter

Maudany expresses

his gratitude

Coimbatore: Kerala-based People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader and a key accused in the 1998 serial bomb blasts Abdul Nasir Maudany on Wednesday thanked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi for directing officials to arrange for Ayurveda treatment for his various ailments in the Central prison here. In a release circulated through his lawyers, Maudany, who has been lodged in the prison for the last eight years, thanked the State government and Karunanidhi, in helping to get treatment on 'humanitarian grounds.' He also thanked Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan for taking up the issue with Karunanidhi personally and also the doctors of Arya Vaidya Pharmacy for providing the treatment. — PTI

ABVP calls for `education bandh'

KOZHIKODE: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has called for a State-wide `education bandh' on Thursday in protest against the police action on its workers in Kozhikode on Wednesday during a march to Teacher Education Centre of Providence Women's College, ABVP leaders told presspersons here.

Activists of the ABVP took out a march to the college had taken out a march to the college in protest against the grant of minority institution status to the college. The demonstrators stormed the office of the Principal. They were later removed by the police. The protesters alleged they were roughed up by the police without provocation. ABVP leader Sudheeran was admitted to hospital with injuries sustained in police action. ABVP leaders said the agitation against colleges with minority status would be intensified. — Staff Reporter

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