Mumbai, Apr 6: A special POTA court here today sentenced to life three of the ten convicted in the multiple blasts that rocked the metropolis between December 2002 and March 2003, killing 13 people while key accused Saquib Nachan was given a ten-year jail term. Special Pota Judge P R Deshmukh said that convict Muzammil Ansari (who had planted the bombs) will undergo life imprisonment till the end
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Mangaluru, Apr 6: In a gross violation of food safety norms, a packet of biscuits manufactured by a leading brand were found infested with worms in Bantwal taluk of Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada district. Mohammed Ali, a resident of Puncha village in Bantwal taluk was in rude shock when he noticed worms emerging from biscuits in Parle 20-20 Butter Cookies packet. He bought the 200 gram biscuit
Apr 6: WhatsApp last night turned on the encryption within the app. That has created a lot of buzz. But why and how exactly it affects WhatsApp users? Well, sit tight and let us explain it all to you in 10 quick points: 1- Starting Tuesday night, all WhatsApp communication is encrypted. This means, now when you chat with your friends, cyber criminals or even government sleuths will not be able to
Mangaluru, Apr 6: The coastal district on Wednesday continued to real under heat despite a brief rain in parts of Mangaluru and Sullia taluks of Dakshina Kannada district last night. Moderate rain coupled with lightning and thunder lashed Sullia on Tuesday evening. In the wee hours of Wednesday mild showers occurred at Deralakatte, Konaje and surrounding areas of Mangaluru taluk. 2 killed in
Kasaragod, Apr 6: In an endeavour to remind the electorates about the significance on the need to exercise their right to franchise, actor Kavya Madhavan registered her signature on the sign wall in the presence of hundreds of people gathered at function at the hilly township of Bheemanadi in her home district on Tuesday. The sign wall pointed on the bounden duty of a voter to cast the ballot as a
Kasaragod, Apr 6: An 18-year-old student from Karnataka was killed when the excavator on which he was working as an assistant, slipped into a pond at Cherkapara in Panayal village, some 25 km from here, the police said. Sachin, son of Madhava, a resident of Chennakoppa, near Hassan, died as the excavator engaged in clearing earth on a private premises turned turtle around 4 p.m. on Monday, also
Bengaluru, Apr 6: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), through its first FIR, on Monday arrested three public servants in Bengaluru in connection with demand and acceptance of bribe. The officials arrested are: Taluk development officer Rajashekhar, office accountant Srinivas and a typist Shanthamma. The arrested members work at the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Tribes Development Corporation Limited
Bengaluru, Apr 6: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested a 25-year-old woman for selling fake degree certificates and marks cards of well known universities in the country and also a foreign university. The CCB sleuths said that the accused Safia Banu, a resident of Bannerghatta Main Road was arrested while the kingpin of the racket Ravikumar alias Ravi Raj, a native of Secunderabad is
Bengaluru, Apr 6: The Education department has decided to invoke criminal procedure to penalise those indulging in acts like paper leaks, which will henceforth be considered a criminal offence. This decision follows the leakage of II?PU?Chemistry question paper twice. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Kimmane Ratnakar said on Tuesday that a decision has been taken to amend the Karnataka
Mangaluru, Apr 5: Mangaluru (South) MLA JR Lobo today formally inaugurated the new electric fire chamber at the Hindu Rudra Bhoomi' (Hindu crematorium) at Boloor, managed by the Mangaluru City Corporation. Speaking on the occasion he directed the MCC to install a new scrubber-cum-high-chimney at the crematorium and get approval for the same from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB)