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Kochi, Feb 10: A class XI student and the daughter of a local BJP leader in Kasaragod district of Kerala has appealed for help in a Facebook video after CPM workers allegedly threatened to kill her father. Ashwini, daughter of Sukumaran, said in the video that her father recently joined the BJP in the presence of state president Kummanam Rajasekharan at a function in Kanjangad. “Local CPM leaders

Mangaluru, Feb 10: A local court has awarded nine months of rigorous imprisonment to a married man for cheating a girl under the pretext of marrying her. The court also levied a fine of Rs 20,000 of which Rs 15,000 will be paid as compensation to the victim who has delivered a baby girl after she had a physical relationship with the accused. Apart from this, the convict will also have to pay Rs 1

Mangaluru, Feb 10: The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has urged the Karnataka government to take necessary measures to provide job, financial aid to those who lose job in middle eastern countries in the wake of their localization drives. Speaking to media persons here on Friday, DYFI state president Muneer Katipalla said that thousands of expatriates from coastal Karnataka working in

New Delhi, Feb 10: The Karnataka High Court will get five new additional judges. The President appointed Dixit Krishna Shripad, Shankar Ganapathi Pandit, Ramakrishna Devdas, Bhotanhosur Mallikarjuna Shyam Prasad and Siddappa Sunil Dutt Yadav as additional judges. They will serve for two years. On Thursday, advocates called off their four-day hunger strike after receiving credible information that

Bengaluru, Feb 10: Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait on Friday conceded that there were as many as 240 typographical and factual errors introduced in school textbooks distributed during the current academic year. Replying to Tara Anuradha (BJP) in the Legislative Council, Sait said that his department was, however, taking measures to ensure that the same mistakes aren't

Bengaluru, Feb 10: P Ravi Kumar, Principal Secretary, Energy Department, on Friday said that there is excess generation of power from various sources, including solar energy, in the state. However, the state is unable to use the generated power effectively for want of proper infrastructure. He said that on Friday the maximum demand was 9,150 MW and on Thursday it was 9,755 MW. The department can

Mangaluru, Feb 9: Within six months after he took charge, Hemanth Nimbalkar, Inspector-General of Police, Western Range, has been transferred as IGP, Criminal Investigation Department, Economic Offences, Bengaluru. He took charge here on August 16, 2017. The State government has transferred back J. Arun Chakravarthy, IGP, Internal Security Division, Bengaluru, in the place of Mr. Nimbalkar. Mr

Bengaluru, Feb 9: Accusing BJP of using government machinery to target political opponents, Karnataka Congress Working President Dinesh Gundu Rao today called its national President Amit Shah "a coward". He also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Shah, was indulging in a "heinous" act of using departments like the Income Tax to target opposition leaders, which no other political

New Delhi, Feb 9: Kerala has topped among large states on overall health performance in NITI Aayog's Health Index, while Uttar Pradesh appears at the bottom though it has shown big improvement in the recent past. Kerala was followed by Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, according to the report -- 'Healthy States, Progressive India: Report on Rank of States and UTs'. Rajasthan, Bihar and Odisha are

Mangaluru Feb 9: The Mangaluru city police have arrested two persons in connection with the coldblooded murder of notorious Target gang leader Ilyas. The arrested have been identified as Mohammed Sameer alias Robert (27), who lives near Salafi masjid in Ullal and Nameer Hanju (34) who lives in Pavoor Gerukatte, Manjeshwara in Kasargod district. They are said to be the member of rowdy Dawood