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Mangalore, Jun 20: Chandrahas Devadiga, who turned hotel business into service and provided meals for Rs 10 and Rs 5 in Mangalore, is no more. The hero of poor and starving people breathed his last after a massive heart attack on Thursday morning at the age of 58. Hundreds of people and students are mourning in front of his hotel near Mahalasa Narayani Temple in Padavinangady in Mangalore, where

Mangalore, Jun 20: The parents of the children who are studying in 10th standard will get a wake up call from their teachers at 5 o'clock in the morning from next month. The teachers will ask if their child has woken up or still asleep. If the child is still sleeping, the teachers will ask the parents to wake him or her up to study early in the morning. It is not a private initiative. It is a

London, Jun 20: A Saudi Arabian student was stabbed 16 times in a brutal and savage attack as she walked alone to university in London. She was targeted because of her Islamic clothing. CCTV footage capturing a Saudi student walking alone 20 minutes before she was murdered has been released. The harrowing clip shows Nahid Almanea, 31, outside shops in Colchester, Essex, just before she was stabbed

Gadag, Jun 20: Eleven people, including seven women, were killed and 30 others injured in a head-on collision between a tractor and a tipper truck near Hulkoti in the district on Thursday. The victims travelling by the tractor were all from Siddanakoppa village in Yelaburga taluk of Koppal district and were returning from a family function in Umachagi in Kundagol taluk of Dharwad district. Ten of

Bijapur, Jun 20: In a tragic end to the nearly 50-hour-long rescue operation, a four-year-old girl who fell into an open borewell at Nagathana village, near Bijapur, was found dead late Thursday night. The round-the-clock operation launched on Tuesday evening ended with the rescue teams finding the body of Akshata Hanumanth Patil at a depth of about 26 feet in the abandoned borewell, officials

Ahmedabad, Jun 20: You may wonder why does Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi often distort facts in public speeches. But perhaps taking a look at the gruesome blunders and erroneous facts ' appearing in textbooks printed in Gujarat, will make your more sympathetic. Reviewed and finalized by the academic experts of Gujarat during the tenure of Mr Modi as chief minister, the textbooks of Gujarat

New Delhi, Jun 20: Controversial Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy has warned Muslims and Christians not to ask for reservation. "Muslim rulers have ruled India for hundreds of years and have also destroyed it, and I find it surprising that now Muslims demand reservation claiming that they have been oppressed. When the Indian Constitution was being made, it was decided that the

Mangalore, Jun 19: Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim reviewed the completion of road development and drain works of all urban local bodies (ULBs) under Nagarothana Phase-2 project undertaken by District Urban Development Cell in Dakshina Kannada in a review meeting held here on Thursday. Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim reviewed all commissioned works related to asphalting and concretisation of roads

Mangalore, Jun 19: For the first time in the history, a Mangalore based student has performed extremely well in the JEE Advanced examination. Sumith, a student of Centre for Advanced Learning (CFAL), Mangalore has achieved what every engineering aspirant in India dreams of: the top rank in the most prestigious engineering entrance examination in India i.e. JEE Advanced by scoring all India rank-38

Udupi, Jun 19: Shreesha Shiroor, a 29-year-old mechanical engineer from Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering, has been anointed as the disciple and successor of Sri Viswapriya Theertha Swamiji of the Udupi Admar Mutt. Amidst a grand function in the presence of galaxy of religious heads, the young and learnt swamiji was coronated as the 33rd pontiff of Sri Admar mutt on Thursday. The