Los Angeles, Dec 13: Double Oscar winning Indian composer A.R. Rahman is once again in the race for an Academy Award. Among the 114 scores in contention for a nomination in the Original Score category for the 87th Oscars, the Mozart of Madras stands a chance with three mentions. His work for "Million Dollar Arm", "The Hundred-Foot Journey" and Indian film "Kochadaiiyaan" are part of the long list
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Belagavi: Dec 13: The Karnataka government has prepared an action plan to install closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) in government schools in the State at a cost of Rs 59.03 crore, in the wake of an increase in sexual assaults on schoolchildren. Replying to a question by Mahantesh Kavatgimath of the BJP, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Kimmane Ratnakar said a proposal was before
Udupi, Dec 13: A major fire erupted at an agro hardware store at G B Panth Road in the city on Saturday causing heavy losses. The inferno, which engulfed Agro Industrial Traders located on a commercial complex, destroyed and damaged agricultural equipments, rice mill machineries and other goods. Billows of smoke could be seen at the 1km periphery, while the fire fighters tried to douse the flames
Bengaluru, Dec 13: In a major breakthrough, the alleged handler of the most influential pro-ISIS Twitter account was arrested from an apartment here in the early hours today. Mehdi Masroor Biswas has "confessed" he was handling the pro-jihad tweeter "@ShamiWitness" and he was particularly close to English-speaking ISIS terrorists, Karnataka DGP L Pachau told reporters here. An engineer working as
Bengaluru, Dec 13: The alleged handler of the pro-ISIS Twitter account has been arrested, according to a senior police official in Bengaluru. "He is with us," the official said, confirming the arrest of the pro-jihad tweeter "@ShamiWitness" who had been anonymously operating the account as "Mehdi". The development comes after intelligence agencies in India rubbished a report by British media
Mangaluru, Dec 13: The foundation stone laying ceremony for the proposed Maulana Azad Bhavan in the city on Saturday was marred by the protest staged by the Sangh Parivar activists along with the students of a private English Media School, run by Kerala Samajam, which had planned to take over a government land. It is learnt that the school management had asked the students to stage protest and not
Bengaluru, Dec 13: Representatives of the erstwhile Janata Parivar will protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on December 22 against the National Democratic Alliance?(NDA) government's œfailure to implement the poll promises, JD(S)?leader and former prime minister H?D?Deve Gowda said on Friday. Gowda told reporters here the NDA?government had failed to keep its promises to bring back black money
Lucknow, Dec 13: In a shocking revelation, intelligence sources said that those who changed their faith and enjoyed the hospitality of Sangh Parivar in recent œmass conversion in Agra could be illegal migrants from Bangladesh who arrived here from West Bengal a few years ago. Highly placed sources said the œconverts had admitted that they were from Bangladesh and had been living at the vacant
Thirthahalli, Dec 13: The town, still recovering from the death of 14-year-old girl Nanditha K?B, is tense again after a fire gutted the grocery shop owned by her father, T G Krishnappa, in the early hours of Friday. According to local residents, the incident took place at around 2.30 am. Noticing flames, they informed Krishnappa and tried to douse the fire. However, grocery items worth lakhs of
Bengaluru, Dec 13: Advocate General (AG)?Ravivarma Kumar on Friday submitted to the High Court that the reports of the DNA test and other medical examination conducted on Raghaveshwara Bharathi, seer of Ramachandrapura Mutt accused of rape, are positive and support prosecution's claims. During the hearing of the case, when the AG submitted two sealed envelopes containing the medical reports of the