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Mangalore, Oct 1: A 13-year-old girl has allegedly been raped over a period of one year in Mangalore city limits. According police sources, a Class 8 student in the city, was allegedly sexually assaulted by two of her relatives identified as Praveen (20) and Vikesh (20). Both of the accused are college students in the city. It is learnt that the accused had threatened the girl of dire consequences

Mangalore, Oct 1: MLA J R Lobo along with officials visited Kadri Park and inspected the Park, on the backdrop of a memorandum submitted to him by Dr K R Shetty and others with regards to the renovation and maintenance of Kadri Park, on Tuesday. Addressing the reporters, Mr Lobo said that the blueprint for the developmental works is ready, but it calls for certain changes. "There is a plan to lay

Mangalore, Oct 1: Muslim Lekhakara Sangha, a city based writers forum, has invited Muslim authors to send in their Kannada works for the state-level annual Muslim Sahitya Prashasti for the year 2012. An author is eligible to send more than one literary work published in the year 2012. Muslim authors from outside the state are also eligible to send their published works. Translated works, however

Puttur, Oct 1: Local residents are demanding a thorough investigation into the alleged kidnapping case of a Naushida, whose claims were reportedly proved to be false and baseless. Meanwhile, Puttur MLA Shakunthala Shetty has said that directions have been given to the police department to file case against those who tried to tear the social fabric keeping this case as a background. Addressing the

Moodbidri, Oct 1: The District Sessions court has denied interim anticipatory bail application for seven accused including advocate Shanthi Prasad Hegde in assault on student and firing case in Moodbidri. The seven accused had moved the anticipatory bail application in the district sessions court on Saturday. Moodbidri police have registered a case of attempt to murder against Shanthi Prasad Hegde

Mangalore, Oct 1: St Aloysius College, which has been vouching for University status, has in this direction shot an appeal to Union Minister for MHRD Dr M M Pallam Raju to include the institution in list of colleges, which would be considered for the University status. The appeal was handed over by the College administration to Minister for Transport, Road and Highways Oscar Fernandes during his

Bantwal, Oct 1: Death of Sarapady Gram Panchayat Vice-President Shakunthala during delivery has sparked protest in Bantwal region, bringing together people from various walks of life. The angry protesters staged stir demanding stern action against the medical staff of the hospital responsible for the death. Over 40 like-minded organizations from the taluk joined hands to form'Bantwal Taluk

Mangalore, Oct 1: Members of Urwa Store unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) held a protest near Urwa Store junction here on Monday, demanding the standardisation of prices in all the hotels across the district. Addressing the protestors, DYFI Mangalore city president Imthiyaz said that prices of food items had been hiked to unfair levels even in middle-class hotels across the city

Mangalore, Oct 1: The collaborative agency of Padi-Childline 1098 has completed one year of existence since its inception in August 2012, said Childline Director Renny D'Souza. Speaking about the outreach of Childline 1098 at a press conference at Roshni Nilaya here on Monday, he said that a total of 171 cases had been registered by Childline in the past year, including 67 cases of child abuse

New Delhi, Sep 30: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday asked all Chief Ministers to ensure that no innocent Muslim youth is wrongfully detained in the name of terror. In a letter to Chief Ministers, Shinde said Central government has been receiving various representations on alleged harassment of innocent Muslim youth by law enforcement agencies. "Some of the minority youth have started