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Bengaluru, Feb 20: Bengaluru police have arrested a person who threatened to blow up Karnataka chief minister’s residence. The arrested terrorist has been identified as Lakshmikanth Urs, a resident of Vivek Nagar. Sources said, the accused had called up the control room twice on Wednesday at 7.35 pm and 7.55 pm, which was received by a constable. Urs had stated that he had come from Pakistan and

Mangaluru, Feb 20: As a prelude to the Virat Hindu Samajotsava to be held in Mangaluru next month, a motorbike rally was organized by the Vishva Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal in the city on Friday. The rally was flagged in front of the publicity office of Hindu Samajotsava near Bunts Hostel by Dakshina Kannada M P Nalin Kumar Kateel. Swami Rajashekarananda, the pontiff of Vajradehi Mutt, Ganesh

Moodbidri, Feb 20: A complaint has been lodged at Moodbidri police station alleging that a girl studying in PUC was kidnapped in a car near Krishnakatte in Moodbidri on Wednesday evening. A person named Dore from Bengaluru is said to have kidnapped the girl. The minor daughter of Ganesh Devadiga, who is originally from Moodbidri and currently residing in Hosakeri in Bengaluru, and the accused Dore

Bengaluru, Feb 20: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi, who was banned from entering Bengaluru till February 25, has resorted to "Gandhigiri" to protest the move of police department. Owaisi insisted additional police commissioner Noorullah Shareef to accept flowers much to the amusement of onlookers as he came to his office to serve the notice barring his entry into

New Delhi, Feb 20: After arresting five people in connection to the oil espionage scam, the Delhi crime branch today arrested former journalist Santanu Saikia and Prayas Jain in relation to the case. Santanu Saikia runs an energy portal called Indian Petro and Prayas Jain is an energy consultant at a Melbourne based company. A senior police official said,"We have arrested Prayas Jain and Shantanu

Bengaluru, Feb 20: Following the rise in the H1N1 cases in the State, Health Minister U T Khader on Thursday said that a circular has been issued to all the hospitals in the State that they should not collect more than Rs 2,500 for testing patients for swine flu. Addressing the media after an emergency meeting to discuss the H1N1 issue, Khader warned the private hospitals to stop fleecing people

Washington, Feb 20: Citing the good work by Muslims around the world including India, with one of the world's largest Muslim populations, US President Barack Obama acknowledged that many in the US have a distorted impression of Muslims. A part of the challenge in fighting the scourge of terrorism, he said was to correct the distortion as "A lot of the bad, like terrorists who claim to speak for

Shivamogga, Feb 20: A youth was killed and many others seriously injured in a violent incident that occurred on the outskirts of Shivamogga in the aftermath of communal clashes erupted between Hindu and Muslim groups during the unity march taken out by the cadres of Popular Front of India (PFI) on Thursday. A group of armed persons attacked three youths who were heading towards Shivamogga from

Bengaluru, Feb 20: Disaster struck the Flying Bulls at the ongoing Aero India 2015, as two of the aerobatic aircraft collided mid-air at Yelahanka Air Base here on Thursday afternoon. But despite suffering massive wing and propellor damage, the two uninjured pilots deftly steered the aircraft to safety, avoiding a potential catastrophe. Hundreds of onlookers, many of them schoolchildren, were

New Delhi, Feb 20: In what’s likely to stir a hornet’s nest, Mufti Muhammad Ilyas of the newly-formed Muslim body Jamaat Ulama-e-Hind on Thursday said Lord Shiva was the “first prophet of Islam” and Muslims are “followers of Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism)”. As part of a delegation of clerics that visited Ayodhya on Wednesday to garner support for a communal harmony seminar - National Qaumi Ekta