Daily News Dose: Revathi, Joju George, Biju Menon bag top honurs at Kerala State Film Awards | May 27, 2022

Hello, this is your daily dose of news from Onmanorama. 

I'm your host, Deepa, and these are the major news stories of the day:

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1.  Revathi, Joju George and Biju Menon win top honours at the Kerala State Film Awards

2. P C George gets bail from the Kerala High Court in Vannala hate speech case 

3. NCB gives clean chit to SRK's son Aryan Khan in drugs-on-cruise case

4. Congress supporter held for circulating sleaze video in name of Thrikkakara LDF candidate

5. Flight attendant arrested at Karipur hid gold worth Rs 4.5 crore in shoes

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Lets get into the details. 

1. The 52nd Kerala State Film Awards was announced today by minister Saji Cheriyan and 

it was packed with a few surprises and some much-expected results.

Actress Revathi, who made a comeback to Malayalam after a few years through the 

Shane Nigam-starrer 'Bhoothakalam,' was termed the Best Actor (Female). 

Biju Menon, who played an aging father in the film 'Aarkkariyam,' shared the Best Actor (Male) award with 

Joju George, who won the title for his performances in 'Nayattu,' 'Madhuram,' 'Thuramukham'and 'Freedom Fight.' “Biju Menon's role was so nuanced as a father, said jury chairman

Saeed Akhtar Mirsa, who also added that  Joju displayed a mosaic of emotions and wonderful range through his performances in 

various films.

2. Senior politician P C George, who was arrested and sent to judicial remand on Thursday over a hate speech case, 

was granted bail with strict conditions by the Kerala High Court on Friday.

The court considered George's two bail pleas - one seeking anticipatory bail in a 

hate speech case registered at Palarivattom police station in Kochi and the other appealing 

against the cancellation of his bail in another similar case lodged against him in Thiruvananthapuram.

The high court granted the bails considering his health condition and status as former MLA. 

The court has directed the former Poonjar MLA to cooperate with the probe teams in the ongoing investigations against him.

3. The Narcotics Control Bureau on Friday gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan, son of 

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, over the drugs-on-cruise case in which he was arrested late last year.

Officials of the NCB, which filed its chargesheet in a Mumbai court, said Aryan Khan and 

five others had not been named due to "lack of sufficient evidence".

Asserting that its special investigation team (SIT) carried out its probe in an "objective manner", 

the federal anti-drugs agency said in a statement in Delhi that "the touchstone of the principle of proof beyond reasonable doubt has been applied". 

Based on the investigation carried out by the SIT, a complaint against 14 persons under various sections of the NDPS Act is being filed (before a Mumbai court). 

Chargesheet against the remaining 6 persons is not being filed due to lack of sufficient evidence, it said.

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4. A native of Palakkad, who is reportedly a former Congress backer, has been 

arrested for circulating a sleaze video in the name of the LDF candidate for the Thrikkakara by-election, Dr Jo Joseph.

The accused is Kozhinjampara-native Sivadasan, who is allegedly a former local office-bearer of the Youth Congress and an employee of the KTDC.

The Kochi City Police launched a probe after the candidate and his wife Dr Daya Pascal 

came forward against the 'fake video' purportedly featuring Dr Jo Joseph.

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5. Gold smuggling through airports is going on despite heightened vigil, and links of 

rackets with flight crew and Customs personnel have come to light in several cases. A flight attendant who was arrested the 

other day at the Calicut International Airport for gold smuggling told his interrogators that he has done so six times earlier.

The Customs had nabbed Air India Express cabin crew Navneet Sigh with 1.25kg gold on Wednesday.

Gold, worth Rs 4.5 crore, was being smuggled by concealing it in the shoes, as per the Customs statement.

That brings us to the end of this episode. 

Be sure to come back tomorrow. As always, thanks for listening to Daily News Dose.