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Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 18: CPI-M's youth wing, Democratic Youth Federation of India, has launched a matrimonial website exclusively to promote 'secular' marriages. The website, "www.secularmarriage.com," will function as a unique platform for liberal-minded people to find their partners irrespective of caste, creed and religion, DYFI sources said. The site, launched by celebrity couple--director

Chhattarpur (MP), Dec 18: A 14-month-old boy fell into a deep borewell and was trapped at a depth of 18-feet inside it at a village in the district. A rescue operation has been launched by the district officials to save the child - Krishna Lodhi - who accidentally fell into the 100-feet dry borewell at Lidhora village under Bhagwa police station limits last evening while playing in an agriculture

Kundapur, Dec 18: Around 25 students of HMMS English Medium School, Byndoor sustained injuries when the school bus they were travelling in fell on its side at Uthinane near Byndoor in Udupi district on Thursday. The tragedy took place at around 8:30 a.m. when the bus was carrying students from Bhatkal. Among the injured, the condition of the three students is said to be critical. They have been

Puttur, Dec 18: In a bizarre incident, a youth has been booked for allegedly hitting a four-year-old girl for not eating food in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. The accused has been identified as Moinuddin, a 20-year-old resident of Bellare in Puttur taluk. In a complaint filed with the Sullia police, Manikanta said he saw Moinuddin hitting the girl for refusing to eat food in latter's

Belagavi, Dec 18: The Home department has booked four staffers of a private Kannada television channel under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act 2012, Home Minister K J George has said. The staffers of TV9 have been accused of violating Section 23(2) of the Pocso Act, which says the identity of a victim of sexual offence should not be revealed. The television channel had

Mandya, Dec 18: Tension prevailed for a while at the government hospital, as there was no ambulance services available to shift a pregnant woman, who had attempted to commit suicide, in Pandavapura of Mandya district on Wednesday. Geetha, 33, wife of Dhananjaya, had tried to commit suicide by setting herself ablaze. Resident of Hirodebeedi, Geetha in an effort to threaten her husband had attempted

Mangaluru, Dec 18: The recently-formed Retired Police Officers' Welfare Association in Dakshina Kannada district will now have an office of their own after it was inaugurated inside the premises of district police headquarters here on Wednesday. DK Superintendent of Police S D Sharanappa inaugurated the new office which will henceforth serve as the administrative centre of the association

Bengaluru, Dec 18: The High Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of all the persons in the serial church blasts cases of June-July 2000. The court, however, commuted to life term the death penalty awarded to eight of the convicts by a special court in November 2008 on the charge of waging a war against India and creating religious disharmony. The special court had sentenced some of the

Mangaluru, Dec 17: A two-day-old girl abandoned at Kabaka village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district was rescued after her cries alerted a woman on Wednesday morning. The infant, who was discarded within a day after being born, was found with no clothes on and had wounds on her neck and one of the hands. The girl weighing 2.3 kg was in a critical condition when she was found lying on a

Mangaluru, Dec 17: A two-day national seminar on'Nationalism as a Religion: Trends in India' will be jointly organised by Department of English, Political Science, History and Sociology at Pompei College, Aikala on December 19 and 20 at the college premises, said principal of the college Dr John C Miranda. Briefing mediapersons at a press conference here on Wednesday, he said that the two-day