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Kasaragod, Aug 15: The disappearance of a 22-year old woman under mysterious circumstance on Monday at Cherur locality, close to Chandragiri river in Kasaragod, led to massive search operations by a team of Fire and Rescue Services personnel and the police in the deep waters. The personnel, equipped with sophisticated gadgets searched the swollen waters in vain and had to call off the efforts due

Karwar, Aug 15: Veteran Kannada actor Sadashiva Brahmavar, is now helplessly wandering on the streets of Karnataka. The miserable condition of the actor came to light when a few residents of Kumta in Uttara Kannada district recognized him. Sadashiva, who has acted in more than 150 Kannada movies and several TV serials, has bagged several awards too. The actor revealed that he was forced to leave

Bengaluru, Aug 15: As many as 21 police officers from Karnataka have been conferred with the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service and Police Medal for Meritorious Service by the President of India on the occasion of Independence Day. Malini Krishnamoorthy, Additional Commissioner of Police (West), A B Rajendrakumar, DySP (Nelamangala sub-division) and Munihanumaiah, ASI (CID)

Mandya, Aug 15: BJP national president Amit Shah came under severe criticism from devotees of the Adichunchanagiri Mutt at Bellur in the district, after a photograph of him sitting cross-legged in front of Nirmalanandanatha Swami, seer of the mutt, went viral on social media. Mr. Shah visited the mutt, a major religious centre for the Vokkaliga community, on Sunday. He had a closed door meeting

Bengaluru, Aug 14: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said BJP President Amit Shah has no moral right to call his government corrupt, asserting that none of the Congressmen had gone to jail on graft charges as it had happened during the BJP rule in the state. "Shah has been saying this repeatedly. He has no moral right to speak about my government," the chief minister said, as he came

Udupi, Aug 14: Aboobakker Siddiq, a youth from Udupi’s Yermal had been working as a heavy driver at a company in industrial estate in Doha Qatar, along with six others. Due to non-payment of salary for more than three months and false absconding (huroob) case filed by his sponsor, Siddiq had to remain at his room for three months helplessly. The case was pending in the court for his rightful dues

Mandya, Aug 14: Sri Nirmalanandanath Swami, the pontiff of Sri Adichunchungiri mutt, has sent out a clear message to the political parties, saying that he did not nurse any political ambitions unlike Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adithyanath. (Sri Nirmalanandanath Swami greets BJP National President Amit Shah at Adichunchungiri mutt in Mndya District on Sunday) “This mutt is known for

Bengaluru, Aug 14: Kannada actor and BJP leader Jaggesh's son Gururaj was stabbed in the leg by an unidentified man in a road rage incident on Monday morning. The incident happened when Gururaj was going to drop his son to his school in R T Nagar. Gururaj, the elder son of sandalwood actor Jaggesh said the incident occurred when he was on the way to drop his son. “He (an unidentified car driver)

Bengaluru, Aug 14: Bharatiya Janata Party supremo Amit Shah is trying to incite communal tension ahead of looming assembly polls and misusing Income Tax department to destabilise the Congress government in Karnataka, according to AICC spokesperson Dinesh Gundu Rao. Speaking to media persons here, Rao said that Shah’s main agenda is polarisation of people on religious grounds by creating communal

Mangaluru, Aug 14: Congress leader and Karnataka Food Minister U T Khader has slammed the carelessness of CM Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government that resulted in the deaths of over 70 kids at a hospital in Gorakhpur. Even though the preliminary probe report has confirmed the breakdown of oxygen supply at the state-run hospital, Yogi on Sunday held encephalitis responsible for the deaths