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Palghat
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Palghat (pälgôt`), town (1991 pop. 180,033), Kerala state, SW India. It commands the Palghat Gap, the major pass for road and rail through the Western Ghats, connecting the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Palghat, of strategic importance in the British wars with Hyder Ali, is now a district administrative headquarters and a trading and transportation center.


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Byline: Akhel Mathew, Correspondent Thiruvananthapuram: Parambathettu Rejikumar, the accused in a case of killing his wife and four children in July 2008 in an incident that shocked the state, was on Monday handed the death sentence by the Palakkad principal sessions court.
Byline: ANI New Delhi, July 17 (ANI): A grown-up and healthy elephant was found dead alongside the railway track that links Coimbatore with Palakkad on Friday.
Another 34 acres of land suitable for light engineering industries is available with KSIDC in Pudussery village of Palakkad, for long-term lease infrastructure facilities like roads, power and water supply and communication links.
 
 
 
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