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Bengaluru, Sep 8: Ameer-e-Shariat Hazrat Maulana Mufti Mohammed Ashraf Ali Baqavi (77) passed away at a private hospital in the city on Friday after a prolonged illness. Mufti Ashraf Ali was the principal of the city’s prestigious Islamic Shariah College and Darul Uloom Sabeelur Rashad Arabic College. He had also worked as working committee member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, vice

Chikmagalur, Sep 8: Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Friday filed a police complaint against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Gandhi had hit out at Prime Minister Modi after the killing of senior journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. The BJP members filed a complaint at a police station in Chikmagalur here. The complaint also

Bengaluru, Sept 8: The Karnataka government today announced Rs 10 lakh reward to anyone who provides clues about the killing of senior journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh. The announcement was made by Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy, a day after the city police asked public to share any information that they may have in connection with the case through a specific phone number and e-mail id. "Chief

New Delhi, Sept 8: The Centre has devised three offence categories to put unruly passengers on a 'No-Fly List' , with the most severe one, 'life threatening behaviour including assault', carrying a minimum ban on flying for two years. The most severe punishment is in the 'Level 3' category, which includes 'damage to aircraft systems, in addition to 'life threatening behaviour and assault'. '

Washington, Sept 8: The US believes that Indian institutions have the ability to meet challenges posed by cases of infringement of human rights like the killing of senior journalist Gauri Lankesh, a top American diplomat has said. Ms Lankesh, 55, known for her left-leaning outlook and forthright views on Hindutva politics, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bangalore on Tuesday

New Delhi, Sept 8: The Delhi High Court today refrained from passing any interim order restraining TV journalist Arnab Goswami and his news channel Republic TV from airing any news or debate in connection with Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar's death case. Justice Manmohan issued a notice to Goswami and the channel and sought their responses on Tharoor's plea to restrain them from allegedly

New Delhi, Sept 8: The BJP today questioned the Congress government in Karnataka on its failure to provide security to journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was murdered outside her house in Bengaluru and referred to her work for the surrender of Naxalites. Senior BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad condemned the "malafide comments" on the "regrettable and unfortunate killing" of the

New Delhi, Sept 8: Based on a complaint filed by senior journalist Sagarika Ghose, the Delhi police have registered a case against a miscreant who in a Facebook post threatened to murder her. The police have sought details of the IP address from which the post was written by one Vikramaditya Rana, suspected to be saffron activist. The details of his profile are also being probed. The post read,

Karwar, Sept 8: Sachidanand Hegde, a local journalist, is receiving threat calls from a number, displayed as only ‘unknown’ on his phone, in the past one week. Addressing a media conference on Thursday, Hegde said that the continuous threat calls have caused concern among his family members. He said that had been exposing the ‘misdeeds’ of the Hosanagar Ramachandrapur Mutt pontiff Raghaveshwara

Mangaluru, Sept 8: The Dakshina Kannada police have detained a reporter of a Kannada daily after registering a suo motu case against him on charge of creating tension through spreading “false information”. The arrested has been identified as Imthiaz Thumbay, Bantwal taluk reporter of Vartha Bharati Kannada daily. The police are now questioning the reporter. Superintendent of Police C.H. Sudheer