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New Delhi, Aug 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the country's head hangs in shame whenever there is news about rape. “Our heads hang in shame when we hear news about rape,” Mr. Modi said while delivering his maiden address from the Red Fort on India's 68th Independence Day. He also asked parents to question their sons about the malaise. “After all, a person raping is someone's son

Mangalore, Aug 15: Harish Acharya, a Kannada lecturer at St Raymond's College in Vamanjoor, who had gone absconding after one of his students accused him of sexual harassment last month, has now appeared before. Sources said that the accused Acharya appeared before the police on Thursday after having secured anticipatory bail from a District Sessions Court. A PU student had lodged a complaint

Mumbai, Aug 15: Frequent withdrawal of money from ATMs will become expensive from November, with the RBI imposing a limit of 3 transactions per month from ATMs of other banks and 5 from the same bank in six metropolitan cities. A customer will be required to pay a fee of up to Rs 20 for using Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) beyond the permitted numbers of transactions in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai

Mangalore, Aug 15: H Kumar, who was appointed as the Managing Director of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL), by the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on August 7, took charge in Mangalore on August 14. A press release by the company said here on Thursday that Kumar has over three decades of professional experience across the entire gamut of petroleum functions. Prior to this

New Delhi, Aug 15: PM Narendra Modi delivered his first Independence Day address from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort on Friday. He asked the nation to eschew caste or communal violence as stalled the growth of the nation. "Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions," Narendra Modi said. Earlier, he had arrived at the Red Fort and hoisted the National Flag from there. In the

New Delhi, Aug 14: President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said intolerance and violence is a betrayal of the letter and spirit of democracy and slammed those who believe in the “poison drip of inflammatory provocation“. In his Independence Day—eve address to the nation, he referred to bigotry and noted that an increasingly turbulent international environment has sparked off rising dangers “in our

Riyadh, August 14: Thirty-two Indian women have been awaiting repatriation for months at a shelter house in Saudi Arabia after recruitment agencies back home conned them with promises of decent jobs, media reported Wednesday. Many of these women have not been paid for months. They have fled their employers and were lodged at a shelter house operated by the Saudi interior ministry in Riyadh. Some

Mangalore, Aug 14: Under the banner of Mangalore International Airport Users' Forum, several organisations formed by NRIs residing in the Middle East will jointly hold a dharna on August 18 demanding the commencement of budget airlines from Mangalore to Gulf countries and cancellation of user's fee at Mangalore International Airport. In a press release, the Forum stated that the flight rates

Doha, Aug 14: Air India Express has announced that it will charge normal EBG (excess baggage) rates on flights operating into India with effect from August 15. In a press release issued here the Air India Express said that the special excess baggage rate for 10 kg will not apply at the airport. The special excess baggage rate for 10 kg applies only when it is booked in advance through the

Mangalore, Aug 14: Three persons, including a 10-year-old girl child, were found dead at their home at Hoigebail in Mangalore on August 14. The bodies of the deceased, identified as Shailesh (39), his wife Savita and their daughter Vidyalakshmi (10) were found by neighbours at their apartment. While Shailesh found hanging from the ceiling, Savita might have consumed poison after administering the