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Mumbai, Dec 2: Reality TV star Gauhar Khan, who was slapped by an audience member for wearing a short dress while shooting a reality show, on Tuesday said she was "hurt and shocked" by the attack but the incident has made her stronger. Calling the 24-year-old youth who assaulted her a loser' she the actress told media persons that he did not represent the religion of Islam. "This loser doesn't

Mangaluru, Dec 2: With the 20th Urs celebrations of the historically famous Dargah Sharif of Hazrat Seyyid Mohammed Shareef-ul-Madani scheduled to be held from April 2 to April 26, a preliminary meeting was held with heads and officials of various departments which presided over by the local MLA and health minister U T Khader. In the meeting which was held in the deputy commissioner's complex here

Mangaluru, Dec 2: A middle-aged man who was sexually harassing a Class 6 student in a public transport bus was caught by the other passengers and beaten before being handed over to the police on Monday at Deralakatte on the outskirts of the city. The accused has been identified as Suresh (39), resident of Madyar in Kotekar near Deralakatte. It is learnt that Suresh boarded the private bus which

Mangaluru, Dec 2: The High Court of Karnataka has denied the bail application of the prime accused in Sullia fake stamp paper scam. CID police have already submitted the first chargesheet against Sullia based Advocate BV Keshava Bhat and his aide Tara Shetty inclusive of 88 witnesses in connection with the scam, before the court in Sullia. They have asked for an extension of time period for

Mangaluru, Dec 2: City based lecturer Sukanya Rao has successfully completed her doctoral studies in the field of Behavioural Finance and has been awarded PhD degree by National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal for her thesis Factors Affecting Investment Decision Making of Individual Investors in India'. Her research guides for the study were Dr K. B. Kiran, Professor, Dept. of

Bantwal, Dec 2: Bantwal town police have nabbed two women from Philippines in connection with fraudulent credit card transactions at a mobile store in Bantwal. The arrested have been identified as Managan Lardis (24) and Pasas Maisal (26). The two accused were produced before Bantwal JMFC court on Monday and remanded to judicial custody for 15 days. It is said that the two are part of a huge

Karkala, Dec 2: A Karkala based company has bagged Niryat Shree' award for best export performance in Agriculture and Plantation Sector gold category. The award was instituted by the Federation of Indian Export Organisation. Bola Surendra Kamath and Sons, a leading exporter, manufacturer and supplier of cashew kernels, coffee beans and flavoured cashew from Karkala, was among the 44 companies that

Bengaluru, Dec 2: The Karnataka High Court has ordered notice to Chikkaballapur MP M Veerappa Moily in a petition seeking his disqualification for furnishing allegedly factually incorrect accounts of election expenditure. B N Bache Gowda, the BJP candidate who lost to Moily in the recent Lok Sabha elections from Chikkaballapur, had approached the court alleging that Moily exceeded the ceiling of

Mangalurue, Dec 2: In a major relief to Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Dr Sharanappa, the Supreme Court has nullified the suspension order passed by Karnataka High Court earlier this year against him and two other police officers in a civil case related to the construction of a temple at Ujire. In an order passed on November 29, the bench comprising of Justices V Gopala Gowda and C

Mysuru, Dec 2: A nephew of former Karnataka chief minister B S?Yeddyurappa has been arrested by police for cheating a man after receiving huge amount of money. Yeddyurappa's sister's son Rajesh was arrested by Hanumanthanagar police in Bengaluru on Monday following a complaint by K?G?Krishnappa, resident of Banashankari in Bengaluru. In the year 2008, when the Yeddyurappa government came to power