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Mangaluru, Sept 10: The Mangaluru East police on Saturday arrested 10 persons for allegedly cheating a Delhi and a Rajasthan resident of MBBS seats in the A.J. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre. The police said the accused posed as employees of the Institute and assured Kamal Singh Rajpurohit, Delhi resident, and Mahendar, Rajasthan resident, of MBBS seats for their children. The

Bengaluru, Sept 10: Veteran South Indian film actress BV Radha died in Bengaluru after suffering from a heart attack. She was 70. Radha has acted in over 250 Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. Her main contribution was towards Kannada films in which she had produced two films as well. She was the wife of the late Kannada director KSL Swamee who died last year. The veteran actress had overcome cancer

Mysuru, Sep 10: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today slammed Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for accusing the state government of failure to give protection to slain journalist Gauri Lankesh, saying she never sought protection. "The central minister said the government knew about the threat, and Gauri had sought security, but government did not give. All these, it is most

Lucknow, Sep 10: In a shocking development, hundreds of activists of Bharatiya Janata Party attacked a police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti town, about 200 kilometres from here, thrashed the constables and forcibly got two of miscreants released from there. Many police personnel, including the sub-inspectors, fled from the police station when the saffron party worker thrashed the constables on

Ten more airports in the country, including Mangaluru International Airport, will soon do away with the practice of stamping domestic passengers' hand baggage tags, a new air travel regime that began at civil airports in April this year. A total of 17 airports are stamp-free in the country at present, with four airports joining the new protocol yesterday. The Central Industrial Security Force

Mangaluru, Sept 10: A middle aged woman has committed suicide by hanging herself at her father's residence at Shaktinagar in Mangaluru. The deceased has been identified as Reshma Naik, daughter K C Naik, a city based real estate giant. Reshma was said to be suffering from depression following legal separation from her husband who stays in the US. Naik had brought Reshma home and was taking care of

Mumabi, Sept 10: A 29-year-old musician from Bengaluru allegedly committed suicide on Saturday by jumping off the 12th floor of a high-rise in Mumbai’s suburban Bandra, the police said. Karan Joseph jumped off a window of the flat, owned by a company where his friend Rishi Shah works, on Bullock Road. Karan had been staying in the flat for the last month and was reportedly depressed, said senior

Muscat, Sept 10: The family members of a youth from Bantwal taluk, who was killed in a road accident in Muscat, the capital of Oman two years ago, have finally secured over Rs 25 lakh as insurance compensation. A check of Rs 25, 16, 866 has been handed over to the helpless family of late Muhammed Mustafa through Dakshina Kannada district administration. Mustafa, who lost his life in the car

New Delhi, Sep 10: Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has warned that increasing joblessness after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power may lead to social chaos. Speaking at his book launch, Rajan stressed on boosting growth to provide enough jobs for what will be the world’s biggest workforce. "Remember that we have what we call the population dividend. A million

Bengaluru, Sep 10: Indira Lankesh, the mother of slain journalist-activist Gauri Lanakesh, says she has no faith in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “Let the state set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case,” she told Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday. She met the chief minister to urge him to provide justice to her daughter by arresting her killers. She was