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A few days ago, a 10-year-old rape victim, whose abortion plea was turned down by the Supreme Court, delivered a baby through C-section at one of the government hospitals in north Indian city of Chandigarh. The news was shocking. But, it wasn’t the first such case in this great country. Child sex abuse is rampant in all parts of India. Even a district like Dakshina Kannada, which is an education

Bengaluru, Aug 23: Priyamani, one of the most in-demand South Indian actresses, who has also made quite a few appearances in a few Bollywood films as well, on Wednesday got married to her long-time boyfriend, businessman Mustafa Raj in Bengaluru. The couple got married in a simple function at the registrar office and they will be hosting a grand reception soon. Ahead of the wedding, a lavish

Bengaluru, Aug 23: The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday gave an undertaking to the Karnataka High Court that it will neither summon nor arrest former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa till August 28 in connection with the two cases registered against him on alleged illegal denotification of acquired lands when he was the Chief Minister. Senior counsel for the ACB gave this undertaking when

Bengaluru, Aug 23: The Karnataka government today said it will come out with an "Electric vehicle and energy storage policy" soon with an intention to make the state the electric vehicle capital of the country. "We will soon be coming out with an electric vehicle and energy storage policy. Today in many countries electric vehicles have come, it is going to be the future, but because of the battery

Bengaluru, Aug 23: A couple committed suicide in Kalasipalyam on Monday night, reportedly because they could not repay a Rs 46-lakh loan their son had taken from the local corporator. Nanjundaswamy (48) and Pushpalatha (46), of Pipeline Road, Kalasipalyam, decided to end their lives as Aarya Srinivas, the Congress corporator of Hemmigepura ward, and his associates reportedly kept harassing them

Bengaluru, Aug 23: Karnataka Deputy Inspector General of Police D Roopa, in a report to the ACB has claimed that she had reliable information on jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala visiting a house belonging to Hosur MLA, near the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison here. "There is a reliable information that she (Sasikala) sometimes goes to a house near the central jail that belongs to Hosur MLA.

Bengaluru, Aug 23: Kannada actor Upendra’s will register his new political party - Uttama Praja Party (UPP) - with the Election Commission of India soon. The name of the political party matches with “Uppi” as Upendra is popularly known. The missing “I” is dilebrate. The tag line of the party is Upendra telling his potential voters, “Because ‘I’ will have no place in Uttama Praja Party as it is by

Fans of Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked actor-turned-politician Ramya on social media after the former Mandya MP indirectly criticised the PM’s indifference towards flood victims. Ramya in fact earned the wrath of the Modi bhakts by announcing a reward for any photo that showed PM Modi with victims of floods in any part of the country. Volunteers of the BJP’s social media cell responded to

Udupi, Aug 23: After being discharged from the Kasturba Hospital in Manipal on Tuesday, Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Paryaya Pejawar Mutt spent time at the Vadiraja Mandira located next to the Sri Krishna Mutt/Temple complex by reading books and chanting mantras. The 87-year-old seer had undergone surgical procedure for hernia on Sunday. Though the seer has been discharged, the doctors have advised

Los Angeles, Aug 23: A jury in United States has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalised woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene. The verdict in the lawsuit brought by the California woman, Eva Echeverria, marks the largest sum awarded in a series of talcum