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Bantwal, Jul 7: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh stalwart Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka today unveiled a memorial dedicated to slain Sangh Parivar activist Sharath Madiwala, adjacent to latter’s house at Kandoor in Sajipamunnur village of Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district. The memorial was constructed by the RSS activists with the help of local donors on the spot where Madiwala was laid to rest

Abu Dhabi/Alappuzha, Jul 7: The fortunes of a Kerala youth changed overnight after he won Rs 13 crore (7 million dirham) in a raffle in Abu Dhabi. Tojo Mathew (30), a native of Kuttanad had recently quit his job and purchased a ticket before bidding adieu to the gulf nation. Mathew, who worked as a civil supervisor in Abu Dhabi for the past six years, had resigned from his job recently. He left

Bengaluru, July 7: Janata Dal (Secular) (JD-S) supremo and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda on Saturday said that Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will give all necessary details and reply on the budget on the floor of the House. His statement came following senior Congress leader H K Patil's letter to Kumaraswamy criticising the state budget. "Chief Minister will give all necessary details and

Kasaragod, Jul 7: A 10-year-old Muslim girl in Kerala’s Palakkad district was allegedly rusticated from a local madrasa after she was spotted with a sandalwood 'bindi' on her forehead. The girl was sporting the bindi as part of an acting assignment in a short film. Slamming the madrasa for the action, the father of the girl said that they were fortunate she wasn’t stoned. The post by the girl's

Hyderabad, Jul 7: Supporting the Law Commission's recommendation on allowing gambling and betting in sports, retired Supreme Court Judge N Santosh Hegde has even favoured legalising prostitution, saying vices cannot be abolished by the state. "A person who thinks vices can be abolished by law is living in a fool's paradise," said the former Solicitor General of India. The Law Commission on

Bengaluru, Jul 7: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to complete its ongoing projects of a length of 4,000 km of national highway in Karnataka within one year. His directions came after the review of NH projects in the State, taken up at an estimated cost of Rs. 37,000 crore. While he noted that the progress of highway work had slowed down

Newsroom, Jul 7: Physician-turned-Islamic orator Zakir Naik, who is under the scanner of probe agencies in India, has slammed the Indian media for ‘publishing and broadcasting false news’ against him. Dr Naik, who is currently staying in Malaysia as a permanent resident, posted a video on Facebook on Friday in which he said, “I would like to thank television channels and newspapers for publishing

Udupi, Jul 7: The Principal District and Sessions Court has posted the hearing in the Bhaskar Shetty murder case to July 16. Special Public Prosecutor, M. Shantharam Shetty, did the chief examination of S.V. Girish, who was the inspector of Manipal police station, when the murder took place. The court also directed that the main accused in the case, Rajeshwari Shetty, her son, Navneet Shetty, and

Kasaragod, Jul 7: Veteran academician and thinker S V Seshagiri Rao has been appointed new Chancellor of the Central University of Kerala (CUK) situated in Kasaragod. Prof. Seshagiri, who is known for his academic and research works for over four decades, has been appointed by President Ram Nath Kovind in his capacity as Visitor of the university, said a CUK statement here on Friday. Born in

Mangaluru, Jul 7: Sanketh P Bharathish, fifth year student of city-based Srinivas Institute of Technology, is the first scholarship recipient of International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU) scholarship. This year INTBAU launched the biennial travel scholarship to anchorage the next generation of researchers and practitioners of traditional architecture and to