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Bhubaneswar, Sept 8: Newly sworn-in Union tourism minister K J Alphons has an advice for foreigners visiting the country: Eat beef in your own countries and then come to India. Asked whether cow vigilantism and restrictions on beef consumption in several states had affected India's hospitality sector, the minister said on Thursday: "They [foreigner tourists] can eat beef in their country and come

Bengaluru, Sept 8: Cyber Crime sleuths in Bengaluru have arrested a 22-year-old unemployed youth for posting hate messages regarding the murder of veteran journalist Gauri Lankesh. According to report by the Deccan chronicle, Mallanagouda Basanagouda Biradar alias Malli from Surapura taluk of Yadgir district was arrested by the Cyber Crime Police on Wednesday. A diploma holder in civil engineering

Bengaluru, Sept 8: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said that his government is open to hand over the Gauri Lankesh murder probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), if her family members insisted on it. Addressing the reporters at his official residence ‘Krishna,’ Siddaramaiah said that Gauri’s family members so far had not approached him with such a request. Stating that he had

Koppa, Sept 8: Various organisations have lodged a police complaint against Sringeri MLA D N Jeevaraj of the BJP for his controversial remarks with regard to journalist Gauri Lankesh’s murder. After flagging of the ‘Mangaluru Chalo’ rally taken out by the BJP Yuva Morcha in Koppa on Wednesday, the MLA had publicly said that Gauri wouldn’t have been murdered had she not used the words ‘Cheddigala

Bengaluru, Sept 8: Reformed naxals have strongly objected to the attempts to link journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh’s murder to conflicts among Maoist groups. “This is a deliberate propaganda to protect the right wing. Nothing can be more heinous than this type of propaganda,” Noor Sridhar, a former naxal activist, whom Gauri had convinced to return to the mainstream said. “Conflicts among Maoist

Bengaluru, Sept 8: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday informed the High Court of Karnataka that then chief minister B S Yeddyurappa had directed Urban Development Department (UDD) to drop land from being acquired for formation of Dr Shivaram Karanth Layout in Bengaluru. Senior counsel Ravivarma Kumar appearing for the ACB, in a submission filed in a petition, said that Yeddyurappa had

Bengaluru, Sept 7: The Special Investigating Team (SIT) has started its probe into the murder of journalist- activist Gauri Lankesh with the Karnataka government saying today it was hopeful of nabbing the assailants "as soon as possible." The state government yesterday announced the formation of a21-member SIT team headed by IGP (Intelligence) B K Singh with DCP (West) M N Anucheth as the

Idukki, Sept 7: In a bizarre incident, a woman suffering from jaundice and believed to be dead, was shifted to a mortuary and kept in a freezer for nearly an hour in Idukki, Kerala. It was only around an hour later that she was removed from there and shifted to a hospital, after she was seen to be breathing and moving by some relatives. Rathnam, 40, was undergoing treatment at a hospital in

New York, Sept 7: A leading human rights organisation has called for prompt investigation into the killing of outspoken Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, saying the “possibility” that it is a “politically motivated” shooting needs to be fully probed. Lankesh, 55, known for her left-leaning outlook and forthright views on Hindutva politics, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bangalore on

Mangaluru, Sept 7: The city police successfully prevented the BJP Yuva Morcha’s illegal motorbike rally in the city on Thursday by briefly detaining scores of Hindutva agitators including prominent BJP leaders after they violated a ban imposed the cops. In order to prevent untoward incidents such as stone pelting, the Mangaluru city police had denied permission to hold proposed motorbike rally