VS barb at KaratMau Sept. 18: Former Kerala chief minister V.S. At the CPM central committee meeting, VS advocated the necessity for a wide platform of democratic and secular forces to fight the government. He said joining hands with other outfits for a specific reason did not mean entering into a poll alliance with them, sources said. The partially clad woman was noticed by villagers and taken to a Varanasi hospital. Blast deathSuri: An explosion at a suspected Trinamul worker's home in a Birbhum village has killed a 50-year-old homemaker in an adjacent house and injured another.

Source: The Telegraph September 18, 2016 20:58 UTC