: Highlights from the southern
region at 1730 hrs.
MDS6 KL-SABARIMALA-PARTIES
Pamba (Kerala): As agitating devotees took to the streets in large numbers over the Sabarimala issue, the opposition BJP and Congress join their stir at Pamba and Nilackal, the entry points to the hill shrine.
MDS7 LD SABARIMALA
Nilackal/Pamba (Kerala): Women journalists are heckled, their vehicles smashed and young female Ayyappa devotees turn back as hordes of Hindu right activists besiege the road leading to the Sabarimala temple whose gates open for women of menstrual age for the first time after the Supreme Court's verdict.
MDS6 KL-SABARIMALA-PARTIES
Pamba (Kerala): As agitating devotees took to the streets in large numbers over the Sabarimala issue, the opposition BJP and Congress Wednesday join their stir at Pamba and Nilackal, the entry points to the hill shrine.
MES2 TL-POLL-CPI
Hyderabad: Communist Party of India virtually set October 21 as the deadline to the Congress to finalise the seat-sharing formula for the upcoming Assembly elections in Telangana, and indicate it is also mulling the option of contesting independently.
MES1 AP-ACCIDENT
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh): A family of six people, including two children, on a pilgrimage die and 15 others are injured when a speeding lorry hit their parked van in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, police say.
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