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Srinagar, Nov 20: The BJP said Wednesday it was confident Islam will prosper in Jammu and Kashmir if it got to rule the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also said that it won't press for the abrogation of article 370 of the constitution, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, if people of the state want it to stay. BJP state vice president Ramesh Arora, who is also in charge of

Kasargod, Nov 20: Two students of Standard X at Government Higher Secondary School, Hosdurg, here, have been arrested by police here in connection with the brutal murder of their classmate whose body was found in a water-filled pit last week. A police team led by Kanhangad Deputy Superintendent of Police Harishchandra Naik arrested the two boys, aged 16 and 17, on the charge of murdering their

Mangaluru, Nov 19: The officers of Customs at Mangaluru International Airport have busted another modus operandi of gold smuggling and seized gold weighing 1816.550 grams totally, in two separate cases worth nearly Rs 50 lakh. In the first case, the officers seized gold in the form of seven numbers of Ten Tola Gold Bars, totally weighing 816.550 grams and valued at Rs 22 lakh concealed in

Udupi, Nov 19: The mysterious disappearance of a Class VIII student from Sharada Residential School at Kunjibettu in Udupi, has caused her NRI parents great distress. Shekhar Shetty and Yashoda Shetty, who live in Muscat, the capital of Sultanate of Oman rushed to Udupi and took the school authorities to task for their alleged negligence towards 13-year-old Eshika Shetty, who went missing on

Mangaluru, Nov 16: Getting the pair of surgical scissors left behind in her stomach surgically removed after four years was not the last of her problems. Even four months after the surgery that successfully extracted the sharp object from her body, 35-year-old Afsa is still receiving medical treatment at Unity Hospital. Hailing from a poor background, Afsa and her family are unable to pay the

New Delhi, Nov 19: Buoyed by strong growth in Internet consumption on mobile devices, the number of people online in India is forecast to touch 302 million by end of this year, overtaking the US as the second-largest Internet market in the world. According to a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, the number of Internet users in India is expected

Mumbai, Nov 19: An interrogation of the 13 gang members of two factions of fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari revealed that Bollywood king Shah Rukh Khan and directors Mahesh Bhatt and Farah Khan were on his radar. According to sources, the arrested criminals revealed that Poojary had instructed them to track the movements of choreographer and director Farah Khan and also keep a watch on King Khan's

Barwala (Haryana), Nov 19: Haryana DGP SN Vashisht has confirmed the recovery of four women's bodies near Rampal's ashram. The cause of death is still not known, the DGP said. The deceased have been identified as: Savita, Santosh, Malkit Kaur and Rajbala. In a press conference, the DGP on Wednesday said that as per their information, accused Rampal is still inside the ashram. "Over 10,000 people

Bengaluru, Nov 19: The State government has given the green signal for setting up four private medical colleges, according to Minister of State for Medical Education Sharanprakash Patil. The Minister told reporters here on Tuesday that two medical colleges would come up in Bengaluru while the other two would be set up in Mangaluru and Kolar. These medical colleges include the one proposed by

Puttur, Nov 19: The Mangaluru-Bengaluru highway was closed for sometime on Wednesday morning at Nekkilady near Uppinangady town after a bullet tanker carrying liquid petroleum gas (LPG) met with an accident. The driver and cleaner of the tanker suffered injuries with the speeding vehicle skidded and rolled over on the busy road. A small quantity of gas leakage from the tankerand the presence of a