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Pope Francis said on Wednesday that a string of recent attacks, including the murder of a priest in France, was proof that the "world is at war". However, speaking to reporters aboard a plane taking him to Poland, the pope said he was not talking about a war of religion, but rather one of domination of peoples and economic interests. "The word that is being repeated often is insecurity, but the

Mumbai, Jul 28: A Kozhikode-bound Indigo flight from Dubai made an emergency landing in Mumbai due to unruly behaviour of passengers onboard on Thursday, according to media reports. The Mumbai Airport police detained the two passengers soon after the landing. The airlines has complained of passengers fighting onboard. According to sources, a fight erupted between two passengers after one among

Udupi, Jul 28: Police has rescued a small girl who was allegedly forced into child labour in a house at Neralkatte village near Kundapur in Udupi district. The officials raided the house following complaints by the public that the eight-year-old girl was being detained in a house. B.K. Narayan, chairman of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), said that the girl was being brought up by her mother in

Mangaluru/Udupi, Jul 28: Contrary to claims by the authorities that dengue is under control, hospitals in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi are recording a rise in the number of people suffering from the vector-borne disease. Nearly 700, positive cases have been reported from the twin districts from January till date. According to Health Department officials, of more than 1,500 suspected cases of dengue

Bengaluru, Jul 28: The longest strike by transport employees in Karnataka caused a notional loss of Rs 50 crore for the state transport corporations. A senior transport official said it was one of the longest protests by the workers' union in its history. “Protests by unions previously lasted for a day and in some cases two days. In 1997, when the KSRTC was divided into four corporations including

New Delhi, Jul 28: The Mahadayi Water Disputes Tribunal (MWDT), which rejected Karnataka's application seeking diversion of 7.56 tmc feet of water, has got it wholly wrong, Mohan Katarki, advocate representing the state, said here on Wednesday. “Instead of focussing on the admitted wastage of the almost entire water of 199.6 tmcft by Goa, estimated by the Central Water Commission in 2001 and 2003

Bengaluru, Jul 28: With a 12.5% hike in wages, the state road transport corporations (RTC) will have an additional financial implication of Rs 700 crore a year. This is in addition to the other allowances to employees, which is estimated to cost about Rs 40 crore annually. The annual revenue of the four corporations is Rs 7,503 crore while the salary bill of its 1.23 lakh employees is Rs 3,566.59

Bengaluru, Jul 28: URA examined the rival ideas that shaped modern India: plural nationalism and majoritarian nationalism The last months of U R Ananthamurthy's life were tumultuous. One of India's foremost novelists and political commentators, Ananthamurthy, who died in August 2014 at 81, had threatened to leave the country if Narendra Modi, then leading the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party

Bengaluru, July 28: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's elder son, Rakesh, who has fallen ill while on a tour of Europe, has been hospitalised in the University Hospital Brussels in Belgium. Mr. Siddaramaiah, who told reporters here on Wednesday that his son's condition was “critical but stable”, is leaving for Belgium by an early morning flight on Thursday. “He is undergoing treatment in the University

Kochi, Jul 27: Two people were killed and two others seriously injured when an ambulance they were in exploded near Meenkunnam at Muvattupuzha on Tuesday night. The ambulance was carrying an aged patient from Mananthavady to a private hospital in Kottayam. The ambulance driver and a male nurse escaped unhurt. Around 7.30 p.m., when the ambulance was a kilometre short of Meenkunnam Junction, a loud