New Delhi: Former Supreme Court chief justice P Sathasivam was yesterday named the new governor of Kerala. He succeeds Sheila Dikshit who has resigned.
A Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said President Pranab Mukherjee had accepted the resignation of Dikshit, a former chief minister of Delhi and a Congress leader.
The communique said Sathasivam would be the governor “with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office”.
Owaisi asks Jammu daily to apologise
Hyderabad: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi yesterday said he will file a defamation case against a Jammu newspaper if it failed to apologise for carrying a false report.
The MP from Hyderabad stated this after the daily reported that a poster was doing the rounds in social media in which Owaisi has asked Indian Muslims to join Pakistani forces if India attacks Pakistan.
“My lawyer will send legal notice to the paper. If they apologise, it is fine; if not I will file a defamation suit against them,” he said in a message on micro blogging site Twitter.
In a series of tweets, Owaisi strongly denied making any such statement, calling it “nonsense”.
IANS
