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Mangaluru, May 3: Dr Bellipady Satish Rai, who treated countless poor patients for free, is no more. The 74-year-old doctor, writer and artiste breathed his last at a private hospital in Bengaluru yesterday after a massive cardiac arrest. Hailing from a reputed family in Perne village of Puttur Taluk in Dakshina Kannada district, Dr Satish Rai decided to serve the poor patients after obtaining

Mangaluru, May 3: The untimely death of this young cancer patient, who was known as a “motivator”, has come as a shock and source of great sadness for his friends and well wishers across Dakshina Kannada and other parts of Karnataka. Abdul Jabbar aka Abdul Jabbar Ponnodi, who was suffering from a cancer for past 11 years, breathed his last at a private hospital in the city at around 12 a.m. on

Bagalkot, May 3: India will become free of Congress only on account of Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister Ananth Kumar has said. Campaigning for Murugesh Nirani, the BJP candidate from Bilgi on Wednesday, Union Minister Ananth Kumar said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has not declared his Rs 70-lakh watch while filing nomination from Badami. “This is the fraud played by him on the people of the state

Udupi, May 3: Lok Sabha member Shobha Karandlaje has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his visit to Sri Krishna temple at the last minute following the information from Special Protection Group over the probable threat on the temple premises. Speaking to media persons here on Wednesday, the MP said that the prime minister was very keen on visiting the temple. It was expected that

Bengaluru, May 3: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was willing to knock on the BJP’s door to become chief minister in 2004, his former mentor and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda said on Wednesday. “Let me be very frank. In 2004, Siddaramaiah was ready to take the help of the BJP to become the chief minister. I did not agree. All our 58 MLAs met at a resort and we decided against it,” Gowda said

Bengaluru, May 3: Looks like the land denotification scam continues to haunt former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. In what is perceived to be a final attempt to target the BJP's chief ministerial candidate ahead of the elections, the government has decided to restore more than 37 acres of land, denotified by Yeddyurappa. Documents reveal that, in February 2018, the urban development department

Bantwal, May 2: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Prabhakar Bhat Kallada is confident that Bharatiya Janata Party candidates will defeat Congress in five or six constituencies of Dakshina Kannada districts. The hardline Hindutva leader, who is for the first time formally campaigning for the BJP in the assembly polls, predicted in an interview that the poll results would prove pre-poll surveys

Udupi, May 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who campaigned for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Udupi yesterday, touched upon the local issues in his speech and accused the Congress government of Karnataka of failing to create jobs for the youths of coastal Karnataka. Mr Modi, who has miserably failed to fulfil the promise of creating two crore jobs every year in the country, said that the graduates

Udupi, May 2: Bharatiya Janata Party had called chief minister an anti-Hindu for not paying a visit to Sri Krishna Temple during his recent Udupi to Udupi. Ironically, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the town on May 1 too refused to visit the temple in spite of invitation. Vidyadheesha Tirtha Swami of Paryaya Palimar Mutt has expressed his disappointment over PM Modi not visiting the

Hassan, May 2: Dejected over government’s apathy to grant a land to bury their dead, as many as 85 Muslim families residing in Ramanathapura village of Arkalgud taluk in Hassan district have resolved to boycott the Assembly elections. The families, with around 350 voters, have been fighting for a burial ground for 10 years. Whenever one of their kin dies, they have to bury the body in neighbouring