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Mangalore, Jun 10: Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim on Tuesday, held a meeting with authorities of major temples in the district to review the arrangement of security measures in the temple premises to ensure the safety of the temples and secure the valuables of the local deities ' from thefts. As per a detailed directive issued by the Commissioner of Hindu Religious Endowments

Mangalore, Jun 10: T S N Murthy, who was working for four years as Deputy Chairman, NMPT has been repatriated to his parent department. Murthy, a senior IRS officer, who belongs to 1991 batch, has been posted as Commissioner, Income Tax. During his tenure Mr Murthy made the Port as a green and clean port by sapling more than 1 lakh trees. He also created additional water bodies in and around the

Muzaffarnagar, Jun 10: Days after the killing of BJP leader Vijay Pandit in Dadri, another local BJP leader was killed in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. Omveer, the President of Meerpur city unit in Muzaffarnagar was been shot dead by two assailants who were on a bike, it is learnt. The killing comes on a day when Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is meeting top

Mangalore, Jun 10: Senior Congress leader from Mangalore P V Mohan has urged All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi to hold a special meeting of AICC within a period of three months after the recent Lok Sabha polls. “It is my humble request that a special meeting of the AICC is called to deliberate on the lapses on the part of the Congress and its local leaders in their failure to

Mangalore, Jun 10: The launching ceremony of the City Max residential-cum-commercial complex, a new venture of prestigious Hindusthan Bava NGC Builders and Developers at Vamanjur on the outskirts of the city on Monday. Ibrahim Musliyar, Khateeb of Badriya Juma Masjid, Krishnapur, offered dua during foundation stone laying ceremony. Mangalore North MLA B A Mohideen Bava released the brochure of the

Sullia, Jun 10: More than a month after communal forces tried to create unrest by spreading rumours that a minor girl was kidnapped by people belonging to different community, the missing girl from Ajjavara in Sullia taluk was traced by police in a town in Bihar. However, the youth who had lured the girl has managed to evade the police. Swapna (name changed), who had gone missing from her home in

Jeddah, Jun 10: Reports that visit visas to Saudi Arabia could be converted into residency permits have been denied as “baseless”. Mohammad Al Hussain, the spokesperson for the Passports Department in Makkah, said that the statements attributed to him regarding the possibility of converting visas to live in the Saudi kingdom were not real. He issued the denial after several foreigners, acting upon

Gurgaon, Jun 10: Tauru, the little town 32km from Gurgaon torn apart by a communal clash on Sunday, remained under curfew a day later amid an uneasy calm. In the morning, there were reports of a local businessman's shop being set on fire. "The local administration officials came soon after and called the fire tender. It seems that through this fire, some elements want to let the communal fire rage

Bangalore, Jun 10: A debt-ridden businessman ended his life by shooting himself in the chest in front of Taralabalu Kendra in R?T?Nagar police limits on Monday afternoon in Bangalore. The deceased is Raghavendra (33), the eldest son of V Ramaiah, who retired as Deputy Commissioner of Police (Public Relations), Bangalore City, a year ago. It is believed that he took the extreme step as he had

Mangalore, Jun 10: If everything goes as planned, the first Beary-Kannada-English dictionary will be in the hands of readers within two years. With proper planning and training the dictionary could be completed within two years, said Prof. B.A. Vivek Rai, Kannada and Tulu scholar, at a consultation meet organized by Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy on Tuesday as a first formal steps towards