Top stories from the southern region at 2100 HRS.

Top stories from the southern region at 2100 HRS.
MDS3 KL-PM-THREAT
Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced terror threat during his recent visit here for the inauguration of the Kochi Metro Rail project Kerala police chief T P Senkumar indicates.
MDS4 KA-COMPLAINT
Bengaluru: A complaint against the Siddaramaiah government was today filed with the Lokayukta for using bus shelters for advertising its schemes without permission and not paying the advertisement fee to the city civic body.
MDS5 TN-NAVY-SHIP

Chennai: The government is looking at making the country a defence manufacturing hub by involving domestic companies so that dependence on overseas players could be reduced, a top Naval officer says.

MDS6 KA-POLICEMEN-REWARD
Bengaluru: A traffic police official and his subordinate have earned acclaim and reward for their quick thinking in allowing an ambulance ahead of President Pranab Mukherjee's convoy during his recent visit here.
MDS8 KARNAN-LD ARREST
Coimbatore: Police arrest absconding former Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan, more than a month after the Supreme Court sentenced him to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.
Bengaluru: AIADMK (Amma)'s stand on backing NDA's presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind will be decided by General Secretary V K Sasikala Natarajan, party leader T T V Dhinakaran says after meeting her in jail here.

MCM22 BIZ-SHIPBUILDING
Chennai: Anjali Deshpande, wife of Vice Admiral D M Deshpande, Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition, formally launches the country's first indigenously built floating dock FDN-2 for the Indian Navy at L&T Shipbuilding Yard near here.