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Bengaluru, Feb 1: The situation has turned worse again in Bellandur lake on Thursday afternoon, after another fire broke out, barely half a month after a massive fire took root in the diseased lake. The fire was first spotted by the locals at 3.30 pm. "Then it seemed small and by 4.30 pm it seemed like it was coming down. but now it is increasing. By 5.30 pm it has started to spread," said

Google on February 1 paid a meaningful tribute to popular Malayalam and English writer and poetess Kamala Das aka Kamala Surayya with a colorful doodle to mark the date of publication of her autobiography, My Story (Ente Katha). Kamala Surayya was one of the many voices that began featuring in cult anthologies in the 1960s when art in Calcutta was undergoing a tumultuous time. Kamala Surayya was

Bengaluru, Feb 1: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has termed the Union Budget 2018 as “direction-less and vision-less” and said it was presented with an eye on the next year’s Lok Sabha elections. Reacting to various proposals made in the Budget by Finance Minister Arun Jaitely on Wednesday, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the Modi government has made several false promises to woo voters ahead of next year’s

Kozhikode, Feb 1: Veteran Islamic scholar, writer and orator Abdusslam Sullami, who is known his progressive approach towards Hadith, passed away on Wednesday in Sharjah. He was 68. His body will be brought to Kerala on Friday. Born in 1950 at Edavanna in Malappuram district of Kerala, Sullami had keen interest in Islamic theology since childhood. He studied in Sullamusalam Arabic college

Honnavar, Feb 1: A group of seers and heads of mutts have come forward to hold a silent march in Uttara Kannada district which witnessed several communal clashes and murders in recent days. The suspicious death of Paresh Mesta in Honnavar weeks ago had triggered widespread violence in the district. Local BJP MP and union minister Anant Kumar Hegde had claimed that Paresh was a BJP activist and

Nearly half of the India’s population still believe that a husband has all the rights to physically assault his wife, according to the pre-Budget Economic Survey 2017-18 presented by the government. The survey revealed that only 54% of Indians believed that wife beating is not acceptable, and the rest of Indians think that a husband beating his wife is quite normal and such a practice is

Bengaluru, Feb 1: A 28-year-old man, said to be a BJP worker, was stabbed to death at Chinnappa Garden in JC Nagar police limits on Wednesday night following a drunken brawl. The victim has been identified as Santhosh (28), a resident of Vasantnagar and is a member of the BJP Yuva Morcha. Police have arrested two people and suspect that the murder. They have been identified as Wasim and Philips

Bengaluru, Feb 1: The Karnataka Sixth Pay Commission has recommended a 30% hike in basic salary for government employees, including pensioners. The report was submitted to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah by panel chairman and retired IAS officer M R Srinivasamurthy in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Siddaramaiah said the recommendations of the commission will be placed before the next state Cabinet meeting

Bengaluru, Feb 1: The Congress and Left pitched for single-phase Assembly polls during their meeting with Chief Election Commission Om Prakash Rawat on Wednesday. The BJP, however, was silent on the dates, only requesting the Election Commission to hold the election in the middle of the week and not on a weekend. The JD(S) has sought multi-phase polls. Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)

Mangaluru, Jan 31: Officers of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Regional Unit, Mangaluru, seized 1,282 grams of gold valued at about Rs. 39 lakh from a Kerala native at Mangaluru International Airport and arrested him on Tuesday. The passenger, identified as Ahamed Nabeel Gaffoor, aged 21 years and from Kasaragod, arrived at the airport from Dubai at 6 p.m. Vinayak Bhat, Deputy Director, DRI