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Mangaluru, Feb 28: Officials rescued a five-year-old male leopard, which was caught in a trap near Moodbidri on Friday. The leopard is undergoing treatment at the K. Shivarama Karanth biological park in Pilikula Nisargadhama, on the outskirts of the city. The leopard must have accidentally entered the trap kept on a government land near Elinje village near Moodbidri, according to Assistant

Mangaluru, Feb 27: Stating that the Land Acquisition Bill recently introduced in the Lok Sabha through an ordinance by the NDA government was regressive and anti-farmer, MLC Ivan D’Souza said that the bill had caused outrage among people and urged that the proposed The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 should be withdrawn

Mysuru: Feb 28: The ongoing campaign for a ‘dalit chief minister’ by a section of dalit leaders in the State is slowly gaining pace in Mysuru, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s home district. Janandolana Kriya Samiti, floated by the Chalavadi Mahasabha leaders who are led by former IAS officer K?Shivaram, has mobilised people ahead of the meeting of top leaders scheduled to be held in Mysuru and

Shivamogga/Bengaluru, Feb 28: Police have arrested the organisers of the Popular Front of India (PFI) convention and unity march in connection with the communal clash that resulted in the death of a man here on February 19. M Nanjundaswamy, IGP, Eastern Range, said four office-bearers of the PFI’s district unit had been arrested and remanded in judicial custody. They are Shahid Khan, 32, president

Mangaluru, Feb 27: District in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai asked the police to be tough and take action as per the law if there were any speeches hurting religious sentiments in the Hindu Samajotsav on March 1. The police will be given a free hand to take action against those disturbing peace, however powerful s/he might be. Mr. Rai said this at a peace committee meeting held at the office of

Mangaluru, Feb 27: In a tragic serial accident, a tipper lost control on the highway at the busy Nanthoor junction in the city and crashed into an electric pole before colliding with a crane, a car and a motorbike resulting in the death of three persons while three others sustained severe injuries. A woman named Veena (40) and her 13-year-old son Nitesh sitting in an Maruti Alto car were killed

Mangaluru, Feb 27: The ‘unlettered educationist’ Harekala Hajabba, affectionately known as the ‘Akshara Santa’ (saint of letters) among who knows of his praiseworthy efforts to educate the poor children of his village who are otherwise unable to afford school fees, is now unwell and feeble due to his health problems. Due to lack of a nutritious diet and problems such as asthma, anaemia now plagues

New Delhi, 27 Feb: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has donated 88 new homes to as many families whose homes were looted and torched during the Sep 2013 Muzaffarnagar riot and they had since been living in community-run make-shift relief camps. More than one hundred people were killed and thousands were rendered homeless during the riot. At a ceremony at Parsoli area of Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh

Kasargod, Feb 27: Disheartened by his parents' unwillingness of purchasing a motorbike as he demanded, a 14-year boy is said to have committed suicide at his home in Neerchal in Badiyadka police station limits in Kasargod. Pradeep Kumar, aged 14, student of Class 7 in Mahajan Sanskrit College in Neerchal, committed suicide at his home in Kilingar on Wednesday. Pradeep had pleaded and demanded his

Riyadh, Feb 27: Employees of companies that fail to implement the Labor Ministry’s wage protection law would be allowed to transfer their services to other firms, without the previous employer’s permission. This was stated by Muneef Al-Harbi, director of the wage program at the ministry. The Labor Office in Riyadh has launched the 5th stage of the wage protection program (WPP) for having more than