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Bangalore, Aug 5: A 70-year-old man who was a part-time teacher at a private school in Bangalore has been arrested after an eight-year-old student said she had been sexually abused by him. Bangalore was shocked and outraged last month by the rape of a six-year-old at a fancy private school. After days of angry protests, the police arrested three men who were instructors at the Vibgyor High School

Bagalkot, Aug 5: Rescue efforts were on for the third day today to pull out a six-year-old boy trapped in an abandoned borewell at a farm in nearby Sulikeri village, even as his father pleaded for stopping the operation, fearing the worst for his son. District officials said 70-75 ft trench has been dug so far to gain access to Thimmanna Hatti, who is trapped at a depth of 160 feet in the 300-ft

Bangalore, Aug 5: To ensure better safety of passengers, KSRTC has procured two Metrolink buses, which have six emergency doors with 12 hammers and real-time fleet management system, besides black box and speed governor. Swedish automobile giant Scania handed over two buses to KSRTC on Monday for trial. The move comes in the wake of several cases of bus infernos last year. The buses offer aircraft

London, Aug 5: Sayeeda Warsi resigned from her position as a senior minister in Britain's Foreign Office on Tuesday, saying she could no longer support the government's policy on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Warsi, a baroness who sits in Britain's upper house of parliament, became Britain's first Muslim to serve in Cabinet in 2010 but was later demoted to be a senior minister of state at

Mangalore, Aug 5: A case was registered at Mangalore North Police Station against unidentified miscreants for sending offensive images through WhatsApp messenger insulting Kudroli Sri Gokarnatheshwara Temple and its pioneer B Janardhan Poojary. In a complaint, temple treasurer Padmaraj said that he received an image on Saturday which read as “a religious bigot called Janardhan Poojary had

San Francisco, Aug 5: A mobile game that simulates Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and invites users to "drop bombs and avoid killing civilians" has been pulled from Google Inc's app store, a company spokesman said on Monday after a public backlash. "Bomb Gaza," developed by PlayFTW and still available as an app on Facebook, simulates the on-going conflict between Zionists' regime Israel and the

Bangalore, Aug 5: The State government has cleared one more set of medical bill of Housing Minister M?H Ambareesh. The government has reimbursed Rs 5,92,592 which the minister had spent towards medical treatment he took while he was in a private hospital in Bangalore in February this year. According to a government notification issued on July 17 by the department of personnel & administration

Mangalore, Aug 5: The students of St Agnes PU College organised a variety show to celebrate French Day. The programmee started with a tuneful French prayer song sung by French students. After the welcome speech, the audience was treated to a humorous presentation of France and its culture. It was followed by a hip hop dance choreographed entirely by the French students themselves kept the audience

Kochi, Aug 5: In the first batch of evacuation of Indian nurses from strife-torn Libya, 44 Keralite nurses arrived here this morning from Dubai. The nurses were brought by bus from Tunisia to Dubai where they boarded a scheduled Emirates flight to Kochi at 3.30 AM, airport officials here said. The nurses were working in various hospitals in Libya. The 44 were among 58 nurses who had reached

Bangalore, Aug 5: Four-year-old Akshata's death after falling into a borewell in Nagthana taluk of Bijapur district on June 17 pushed the state government to come out with stringent guidelines for drilling borewells and their closure. However, more than a month later, 3,400 borewells still lie open across the state, according to the rural development and panchayat raj (RDPR) department. However