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New Delhi, Jan 9: The government offices in New Delhi may soon replace the quintessential phenyle with Gaunyle, derived from the urine of the cows and packaged with the aroma of neem and pine. The idea was first moved by Women and Child Development Minister and animal rights activist, Maneka Gandhi. "It is a win-win situation for us - no harm to janitors by way of daily exposure to chemicals, and

Bengaluru, Jan 10: Anxious moments gripped Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his entourage after fire was noticed just before take off in the silencer of a helicopter in which they were to fly to Mysuru today. Siddaramaiah, Home Minister K J George and PWD Minister H C Mahadevappa and a senior official were asked to disembark from the helicopter owned by a private aviation firm as the fire

Ballari, Jan 10: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, two women and four girls were buried alive when the roof of their old house, collapsed at Kelageri locality in Kottur town in Ballari district during the wee hours of Saturday. The house belonged to Barkera Phakkirappa, who runs an eatery in front of the bus stand in the town. Phakkirappa, his wife Vasanta, and a woman and her twenty-day old baby, had a

Mangaluru, Jan 10: A 26-year-old youth who had murdered man two years ago for failing to pay Rs 100 after satisfying his sexual desires, has been held guilty of the offence and sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by the First Additional District and Sessions court judge BK Nayak here on Friday. The accused has also been awarded eight years rigorous imprisonment which will run concurrently

Ranchi, Jan 10: A BJP MLA today raised in the Jharkhand Assembly an incident of about 40 women undergoing sterilization allegedly under torch light in Chatra district. Raising the issue, MLA Jaiprakash Singh Bhokta said despite the Chief Secretary ordering proper arrangements for sterilisation camp, the family planning surgery had been done in torch light recently. Bhokta demanded to know on whose

Mangaluru, Jan 10: As part of its programme to improve service, cut down on long lines at check-in counters, and enhance passenger experience, Airports Authority of India (AAI) has installed a self check-in kiosk at Mangaluru International Airport. The Airport Director J T Radhakrishna inaugurated the facility on Friday at the domestic departure lounge. As of now, Jet Airways would allow its

Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Jan 10: Though Chief Minister Siddaramaiah skipped the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held here to woo expatriate Indians to invest in Karnataka, his government on Friday signed five MoUs for Rs 1,650 crore worth of investments. The government signed an open-ended MoU with Poland India Business Council for bilateral co-operation for promoting investments in areas like energy

Bengaluru, Jan 10: Syed Ismail Afaq (34), one of the three terror suspects arrested by the Bengaluru police on Thursday, is a homeopathy doctor while four of his siblings are engineers. His parents, Syed Abdul Aleem (75) and Noorunnissa (62), have alleged that the police didn't inform them about his arrest. The parents have been living at a flat in Cox Town for the last eight months. Aleem ran a

New Delhi, Jan 10: The Karnataka State Board of Wakfs (KSBW) has approached the Supreme Court challenging the State government's proposed move to allot 15 acres of land to secretariat employees in Bengaluru. An SC bench of Justices J S Khehar and S A Bobde put the application for consideration on January 16 after the State government counsel sought time to respond to the plea made by senior

Mangaluru, Jan 10: Commuters in the coastal district will soon get the benefit of substantial reduction in petrol and LPG prices. Dakshina Kannada District Regional Transport Authority (RTA) has decided to revise the auto rickshaw fare from January 12. With this DK RTA has become the first RTA in the State to reduce auto-rickshaw fares after the fuel prices went down. The minimum charge for auto