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Dubai: Kannadigas in association with Shreelalitha Events and Ventura Resources are geared up for the musical extravaganza ‘Kannada Kogilegala Sangeetha Sangama 2017’ at Sheikh Rashid Auditorium, The Indian High School, Oud Maitha Road, Dubai. The programme will commence at around 5 p.m. on Friday, October 20. Well-known playback singer from Sandalwood ‘Maadhurya Swara Sarvabhama’ Rajesh Krishnan

Kasaragod, Oct 20: A Border Security Force jawan was found dead hanging at his residence at Aninjha, near Uduma, on Thursday. The police suspect it to be a case of suicide. E. Chandran, 34, is the son of M. Narayanan, a resident of Mottammal, police sources said here. Chandran, posted at a BSF camp in Pune, came home two days ago and the motive behind the extreme step was not immediately known

Chitradurga, Oct 20: Two youths lost their lives while another suffered severe injuries in a ‘selfie tragedy’ that occurred at Bandravi Reserve Forest Range, Megalakanive near Ramapur in Molakalmuru taluk of Chitradurga district on Thursday. Police identified the deceased as Venkatesh (24) son of Thippeswamy and Honnurswamy (23) son of Basvaraj of Rampur village of the taluk. The other injured

Mangaluru, Oct 19: Sasikanth Senthil assumed office as the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, here on Thursday. He succeeded Dr K G Jagadeesha, who was transferred as the Director of the department of Mines and Geology, Bengaluru. Senthil, a 38-year-old, is a 2009 IAS batch pass out and hails from Tamil Nadu. He holds a BE (Electronics) which he passed in first division from the

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Three-year-old Sanjana, who had suffered 60% burns in the building collapse incident following an LPG cylinder explosion at Ejipura, here, on Monday, died at the Victoria Hospital on Thursday evening. Sanjana’s mother Ashwini, who was eight months pregnant, and her father Saravana had died in the incident. With Sanjana’s death the toll mounted to eight. Seven persons had died on

Jubail, Oct 19: Saudi Premier League-2017 has got underway at Jubail with the sponsorship of Spark Arabia. For the first time in Kingdom players were purchased through auction. Opening The grand opening ceremony of first SPL-2017 was conducted at Al-Falah cricket ground Al-Jubail on October 12 with SPL march past by all 6 team players, tournament officials and Al Falah cricket Academy kids. Main

Kochi, Oct 19: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday deprecated the recent trend in the State to portray every case of inter-religious marriages as either “love jihad” or “ghar wapsi.” The Bench, headed by Justice V. Chitambaresh, while disposing of a habeas corpus petition observed: “We are appalled to notice the recent trend in the State to sensationalise every case of inter

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday wrote to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, urging him to exempt handmade products from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. Siddaramaiah’s letter to Jaitley comes even as veteran theatreperson Prasanna’s hunger strike against taxation of handmade products entered its sixth day in Bengaluru. “Handmade products of various kinds are produced

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Karnataka Congress leader G Parameshwara today said Rahul Gandhi has advised state party leaders against making personal comments on opposition BJP leaders and instead engage them on national and local issues in run up to the next year's assembly elections. KPCC leaders including Parameshwara, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka party incharge and AICC General Secretary K

Bengaluru, Oct 19: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa was on Thursday discharged from the hospital. The 74-year-old former chief minister was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru, for high fever and fluctuations in blood pressure. According to Dr Prasad of Sagar Apollo Hospital, where Yeddyurappa was admitted, the former chief minister almost recovered from the fever.