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Mangaluru, Mar 16: A massive fire swept through a scrap yard creating panic among local residents at Bunder area in the city on Friday morning. There was no loss of life reported from the fire which was noticed at 6 a.m. at the scrap shop located on Bibi Alabi Road in Bunder. Short circuit is said to be the reason for the mishap. An eyewitness, Siraj, said the deadly fire spread like a wild

Kasaragod, Mar 16: Actor-cum-activist Prakash Raj, who has raised his voice against fascist tendencies by the Sangh Parivar, has now criticised the Communist Party of India (Marxist), accusing it of suppressing an agitation by farmers seeking realignment of the National Highway set to pass through a paddy field at Keezhattur in Kerala. Workers of the CPI(M), which successfully organised a farmers

Mangaluru, Mar 16: As many as 11 belonging to lower caste of Hinduism bid adieu to their religion and converted into Buddhism in a remote village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada yesterday. The converted Dalits have been identified as Puttanna, Susheela, Nayan Kumar, Namitha, Sathish Kumar, Prema, Harsha, Susheela, Vishwanath, Manoj Kumar and Ganesh. The conversion took place during the house

Mangaluru, Mar 16: Brushing aside the reports in a section of media that there was a fire in its aircraft bound for Hyderabad from Mangaluru International Airport at 8.50 a.m. on Wednesday, SpiceJet has said that the flight was cancelled due to a technical issue. The media reports had suggested that the plane had to return from the runway to the parking bay after smoke erupted from it. However

Hassan Mar 16: Former prime minister and JD(S) national president H D Deve Gowda, on Thursday, said that Veerashaiva-Lingayat faith has a rich history and that there was no need for a separate religion tag for Lingayats, reports DHNS from Hassan. Addressing media persons here, Gowda alleged that "I don't know why the government has chosen two ministers to fight for the separate religion tag for

Bengaluru Mar 15: A tweet by former union minister M Veerappa Moily, on Thursday night, raised eyebrows as he accused Public Works Minister H C Mahadevappa, who is Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's close side, of having a "nexus" with road contractors ahead of the elections. "INC needs to solve money in politics. We can't afford to have road contractors and their nexus with the state PWD minister

The next course of action in the Mangaluru pub attack case in which most of the accused were acquitted by a court would be taken in consultation with the state's legal team, Karnataka minister Ramalinga Reddy said today. Rightwing fringe group Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik and several others were recently acquitted for lack of evidence. "We will take a decision in the pub attack case after

A new analysis by a group of scientists has found that more than 90% of the world’s most popular bottled water brands contained tiny pieces of plastic. The shocking revelation has prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to announce a review into the potential risks of plastic in drinking water. Analysis of 259 bottles from 19 locations in nine countries including India across 11 different

Chitradurga Mar 15: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said that the countdown for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime had begun. He was speaking at the inauguration of various development projects at Hosadurga. "The BJP received a severe setback in the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar Lok Sabha assembly by-elections as it lost four of the five seats, including the all-important Gorakhpur and

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s son Dr Yathindra and Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Sowmya Reddy are among the probable candidates for the 2018 Karnataka Assembly polls from different constituencies. However, Siddaramaiah on Thursday claimed that Dr Yathindra has not sought the Congress party ticket to contest from Varuna constituency in the forthcoming Assembly elections. "My son hasn't