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In a gut-wrenching tragedy, an eight-month-old boy was killed in a ghastly road mishap at Palakkunnu, near Uduma in Kasaragod district on Thursday. The boy was crushed to death after being thrown out of an auto-rickshaw after it collided with a car, sources said. The accident occurred at 1.15 p.m. as the car ahead of the three-wheeler took a sudden U-turn and the auto-rickshaw overturned after

Lucknow, Jan 12: Two-days after Shia Waqf Board Chairman, Waseem Rizvi wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to shut down madrasas alleging that they encouraged students to join terrorist ranks, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbasi Naqvi lashed out at media and termed people raising questions on madrasas as ‘mad’. Speaking to News18 in Delhi, Union

"Let Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar write a letter to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over the sharing of Mahadayi water for drinking water purpose. Then, we will convince the Congress leaders in Goa in this regard," KPCC president G Parameshwara told reporters here on Thursday. Accusing the BJP of double standards on the drinking water issue, Parameshwara said the BJP government in Goa

New Delhi, Jan 12: The Congress on Thursday was unfazed over the controversy created by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's remarks likening the Bajrang Dal and the RSS activists to terrorists. "Siddaramaiah is the chief minister of a state, he has intelligence inputs and information that is not available with us. You can seek clarification from him," Congress spokesperson Tom Vadakkan told

Bengaluru, Jan 11: Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa today asserted that he would become chief minister after the coming assembly elections and warned police officials working as "puppets" of the ruling Congress that the consequences "will not be right" for them. Addressing a rally as part of his 'Nava Karnataka Parivartana Yatre' at Sira in Tumkur district, the state BJP president said, "I want

Mudigere, Jan 11: The police have arrested a 20-year-old Hindutva chauvinist from Bantwal taluk for torturing a college girl belonging to Hindu community and forcing her to commit suicide in Mudigere. Santhosh (20), resident of Badagakajekar village in Bantwal taluk, was picked up by police on Thursday in Bengaluru by a team of Mudigere police led by PSI M Rafeek. Santhosh, who is a lift mechanic

Mangaluru, Jan 11: V V Rao, the director of Mangaluru International Airport, has falsified the reports that there was a vehicle on the runway during the takeoff of a Jet Airways flight on Thursday. “Wrong and vague information is being given by media. There was no tractor or any other baggage carrying trolley on the runway during the takeoff,” he stated in a release. He said that prior to the

Bengaluru, Jan 11: Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy today accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led union government of tapping phones of Congress leaders in the state ahead of the assembly elections due early this year. "I have been saying since long that in Karnataka, phones of some people are getting tapped. We are aware how they are tapping," Reddy said. "Probably as elections are

Vijayapura, Jan 11: All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary K C Venugopal, who is political in-charge of party affairs in Karnataka, ruled out banning Popular Front of India (PFI) as demanded by opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in the State. Stating that there was no question of banning PFI in the State, Mr Venugopal told newsmen on Thursday that the demand by BJP needs to be

Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief Dr G Parameshwara on Thursday said that there was nothing wrong in Siddaramaiah claiming that he will be the next chief minister. Speaking to reporters at Kalaburagi, Parameshwara, who is also a CM aspirant, however said that the final decision would be taken in the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting. He said that the government can go public with