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Bangalore, Jul 1: A Delhi-bound Air India plane from Kochi, with 156 passengers and eight crew onboard, landed under emergency conditions at the international airport in Bangalore late Monday night following an "unspecific call" about a bomb threat, airline officials said. After the Airbus 320 (flight AI-047) took off from Kochi around 8.40 pm, there was a call from a man saying that there could

Kasargod, Jun 30: A 23-year-old leftist activist was brutally stabbed to death allegedly by a Sangh Parivar activist at Panatthadi here on Sunday night. The victim is Abdul Sharif, a resident of Panathur Pariyar village in Kasargod district. He enthusiastically used to participate in the activities of leftist organizations like Democratic Youth Federation of India and Communist Party of India

New Delhi, Jun 30: State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) Monday hiked the petrol price by Rs.1.69 a litre, excluding taxes, effective from midnight, owing to a rise in global oil prices and exchange rates. Diesel prices were also hiked by 50 paise per litre. "Due to geo-political unrest in the Middle East, there has been significant increase in international oil prices during the past two weeks

Mangalore, Jun 30: Several footpath vendors, under the aegis of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), staged a mass protest and dharna in front of the Mangalore City Corporation building here on Monday, protesting against the evacuation of street vendors from footpaths in several areas in the city by MCC officials. Speaking on the occasion, honorary president of Street Vendors Association

Mangalore, Jun 30: Traffic system in Mangalore will undergo significant changes as the city traffic police is planning to install 12 new signals under the M-track system. Announcing this at Mangalore Press Club on Monday, City Police Commissioner R Hithendra said that the Commissionerate will take all necessary steps to control the traffic efficiently and felicitate smooth moment of vehicles on

Mangalore, Jun 30: With the advent of June, several changes were made to ease congestion in the movement of traffic in areas of Mangalore city where traffic is at its peak on all days. In the newest change in the movement of traffic in the city, Mangalore city traffic police have introduced one-way system for three lanes around Balmatta and Bendoorwell on an experimental basis from Monday. This is

Mangalore, Jun 29: A delegation from United Associations of Karnataka Kuwait (UAKK), an umbrella organization of 12 associations, and prominent social workers from coastal Karnataka called on Karnataka chief minister Siddaramiah in Vidaana Saudha, Bangalore and requested his intervention with aviation ministry of India in regard to the restoration of Kuwait-Mangalore direct flight. The delegation

Lucknow, Jun 30: A Samajwadi Party (SP) leader was booked in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district for raising slogans in favour of Pakistan, police said Monday. Samajwadi Party leader Mehmood Alam, resident of Jhinjhana town, was arrested on the Meerut-Karnal highway when he was extorting money from the passers-by. Alam was drunk when he was arrested, police said. He raised objections and resisted his

Puttur, Jun 30: The district fifth additional court has ordered KSRTC to pay Rs 18.7 lakhs as compensation to the family of Puttur town municipal council member Leena Mascarenhas, who was killed along with three other family members in a bus-jeep collision at Santyar in Puttur taluk a year ago. Four members of the same family were killed in a tragic accident in June 2013 when the jeep they were

Haridwar, Jun 30: Refusing to budge from his stand on Shirdi Sai Baba, Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand today described him as a Muslim ascetic who could not be worshipped like a Hindu deity and said his campaign to protect the Hindu religion will continue even if he is sent to jail. "They may burn my effigy or even send me to jail, but my campaign to protect the sanctity of the Hindu religion