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Mangaluru: Apr 22: In a midnight operation, District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) with the help of Childline and Kavoor police have successfully thwarted a couple’s bid to ‘sell’ their 7-day-old daughter for Rs 5,000 to a childless couple in Kavoor Police Station limits in the wee hours of Tuesday. The incident came to light when DCPU / Childline received a phone call from an anonymous caller that

Udupi, Apr 22: Two physically weak women, who were living in isolation in Pithrody village of Udupi district, have been rescuced by a team of activists. Addressing presspersons here, Vishu Shetty, a social worker, said that he had taken the 108 ambulance and got the help of the members of a nearby bhajan mandali and rescued Narsi (55) and her sister Muthu (57) from their dark house at around 10 p

New Delhi, April 21: A kidney weighing 2.75 kg, claimed to be the world's largest, has been removed from a 45-year-old patient, the authorities at a hospital here where the operation was performed said on Tuesday. Subash Yadav was suffering from autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) for a couple of years and was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram hospital(SRGH) last month following

Shillong, Apr 21: A beef party and a bandh will greet BJP president Amit Shah during his maiden visit to Meghalaya tomorrow. The Thma U Rangli-Juki (TUR), a pressure group, is organising the 'beef party' in which it will discuss attack by Sangh Parivar outfits on democratic and secular ideals, near the BJP office in the state capital. TUR conveners Angela Ryngad and Tarun said the beef party is

Mangaluru, Apr 20: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will lay the foundation stone for the new office of Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee at Mallikatte here on Friday, said acting committee president Ibrahim Kodichal. Announcing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, he said that the new Congress Bhavan for the district party unit and its members would be built on a nine cents plot of

Erode/Chennai, April 21: The Tamil Nadu government has cancelled the plots allotted to Coca-Cola's beverages manufacturing facility in State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) Industrial Growth Centre in Perundurai. On April 20, the SIPCOT Managing Director R. Selvaraj issued the cancellation order of 71.34 acres of land allotted to it for non-compliance of terms and

Udupi, Apr 21: In a shocking incident, a newborn baby girl was found dead in a well at Padoor village in Udupi district. Local residents, who noticed the dead body of a small child floating on the water on Monday, informed the police. It is suspected that the mother or parents might have thrown the newborn female child into the well. Medical sources said that the baby might have born two days ago

Mangaluru, Apr 21: Residents of Jokatte stated a protest at Baikampady Industrial Estate demanding action against Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited. The residents who gathered under the banner of Nagarika Horata Samiti in front of the office of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board were registering their protest against air and water pollution from their coke yard and sulphur

Bengaluru, Apr 20: The Karnataka government on Monday announced a special package for farmers affected by untimely rain and hailstorm in north Karnataka. In a prolonged debate in the Legislative Council on the issue of crop loss suffered by farmers of eight districts due to unseasonal rain and hailstorm, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said he will shortly announce the package details. “The crop loss

Bengaluru: Apr 21: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday tried to turn the tables on the aggressive BJP on reconstituting Bengaluru municipal area by dissolving the BBMP, saying that the previous BJP governments, too, had supported the move. “When Jagadish Shettar was the chief minister, he had stated that trifurcation of Bengaluru is necessary in order to provide better services to people. The