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Udupi, Aug 1: A middle aged businessman was killed and three others sustained severe injuries in a ghastly road mishap on National Highway 17 at Yermal in Udupi district on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Sampath Shetty (38) from Padubidri. He was running a poultry farm in Padubidri. The mishap took place when a speeding Mangalore Express bus rammed into the Bolero in which Shetty and

Mangalore, Aug 1: For the sixth time, Bearys Welfare Forum (BWF), Abu Dhabi will organise a mass-marriage for unmarried girls from the Muslim community hailing from financially backward background. The Briefing mediapersons at a press conference here on Friday, president of the forum Mohammed Ali Uchil said that the mass-marriage would be held in the month of October, for which the organisation

Bangalore, Aug 1: The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) on Thursday booked FIR against opposition leader Jagadish Shettar for allegedly violating land revenue rules while allotting prime land in Bangalore city to an individual as chief minister in April 2013. IPC section 420 and other laws in Karnataka Land Revenue act has been imposed on Shettar, Sundaresh (beneficiary) and revenue

Gaza/Jerusalem, Aug 1: A spokesman of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main UN body in Gaza, burst into tears on camera when asked by an Arab news station to explain the scale of civilian suffering. “There are times when tears speak more eloquently than words. Mine pale into insignificance compared with Gaza's,” Chris Gunness said. “UNRWA is overwhelmed in Gaza. We have

Jeddah, Aug 1: Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah, governor of Makkah province, has ordered the confiscation of "perverted" copies of the Qur'an that are being sold in some malls and markets in Jeddah. The governor has ordered the formation of a team to investigate and find out the origin of such fake copies and how they are being distributed, said the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The team is to be composed

Gaza City, Aug 1: A premature baby rescued by Gaza doctors from her dead mother's womb last week has died due to complications and power cuts affecting the intensive care unit where she was treated. The six-day-old baby was born by emergency Caesarean section on Friday after doctors at Deir al-Balah hospital in central Gaza managed to save her from the womb of her mother, who died when an Israeli

Karkala, Aug 1: Moodbidri police on Thursday arrested two persons in connection with theft of areca nut worth Rs 90, 000 from a house in Palkedabailu in Dharegudde. The arrested have been identified as Dinesh Poojary (28) and Harish Poojary (26), sons of Karunakara Poojary of Moodu Marnadu village. The prime accused is still at large, police said. The accused, painters by profession, gained entry

Bangalore, Aug 1: Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader said that Karnataka has constituted a three-member panel comprising eminent gynecologists to suggest it to change the system of tests done on rape survivors in order to eliminate sufferings during medical examination. The committee has been asked to submit the report in one month, said Khader on Thursday. The present system of

Mangalore, Aug 1: Three persons arrested for alleged cattle theft were remanded in police custody on Thursday. Umar Farooq, Nissar and Mohammed Ashfaq alias Badavara Bandhu were arrested by the Bajpe police on July 2. Police claimed that they solved nine cases of cattle thefts at one shot. Five more persons involved in this crime are absconding. They have been identified as Dawood, Munna, Azhar

Mumbai, Aug 1: The Bombay high court observed on Thursday that the victims of custodial deaths in Maharashtra appear to be only from the minority community. A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode made the remark after they informed advocate Yug Chaudhry of their decision to appoint him as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in a case where a 23-year-old resident of Nalasopara (East)