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Muscat, Sept 10: The family members of a youth from Bantwal taluk, who was killed in a road accident in Muscat, the capital of Oman two years ago, have finally secured over Rs 25 lakh as insurance compensation. A check of Rs 25, 16, 866 has been handed over to the helpless family of late Muhammed Mustafa through Dakshina Kannada district administration. Mustafa, who lost his life in the car

New Delhi, Sep 10: Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has warned that increasing joblessness after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power may lead to social chaos. Speaking at his book launch, Rajan stressed on boosting growth to provide enough jobs for what will be the world’s biggest workforce. "Remember that we have what we call the population dividend. A million

Bengaluru, Sep 10: Indira Lankesh, the mother of slain journalist-activist Gauri Lanakesh, says she has no faith in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “Let the state set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case,” she told Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday. She met the chief minister to urge him to provide justice to her daughter by arresting her killers. She was

New Delhi, Sep 10: Days after Rahul Gandhi’s jibe at saffron outfits over Gauri Lankesh’s murder invited wrath, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge on Saturday came up with a nuanced view. He said his party never held the BJP or RSS responsible for the killing. But he insisted that “an ideological conflict” was the reason for eliminating journalists like Lankesh. “We have never

Mangaluru, Sept 9: Human rights activist Harsh Mander on Saturday directly held Narendra Modi led-NDA government for mob lynching in India as 97% of such incidents since 2010 happened after the latter took over as Prime Minister. He was speaking at a programme on ‘Mob lynching and collective silence’ organised by Samarasa, when his Karawan-e-Mohabbat arrived in Mangaluru on Saturday. The Karawan

Bengaluru, Sep 9: Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy today directed the police to ensure the safety of people from the Northeast in the city while at the same time "keep an eye" on their activities. He said people from the Northeast work in different fields in the city and have formed various associations. "We need to give them protection. At the same time, we need to keep an eye on them,"

Patna, Sep 9: It would be difficult for the government to offer any relaxation to Rohingya Muslims, who have fled Myanmar, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here today. The matter is pending before the Supreme Court and the government is also looking into it, Naqvi said at the Parliamentarian Conclave here. "But I do not think we will be able to give any relaxation to them

Bengaluru, Sept 9: The Intelligence department has advised the police to provide security to 18 writers, rationalists, and progressive thinkers across Karnataka following the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. Soon after, local police provided security to many eminent people, including Girish Karnad, Baragur Ramachandrappa, Patil Puttappa and Chennaveera Kanavi, among others. Some who

Kannur, Sep 9: Two DYFI, the CPI(M)'s youth wingworkers and an RSS activist were injured in two separate incidents of attacks on them allegedly by rival party members in the district, the police said today. In one of the incidents which occurred last night, the Democratic Youth Federation of India workers were injured when a bomb was hurled at them allegedly by RSS activists while the duo were

Bengaluru, Sept 9: Four days after journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her Rajarajeshwari Nagar house, no concrete leads have been found in the case. On Friday, the government announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh for anyone providing information that would lead to arrests in the Gauri Lankesh murder case. The announcement came after home minister Ramalinga Reddy briefed CM about