Karnataka

Mangaluru, Feb 3: A team of doctors of Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute here has recently performed a successful surgery on a 20-year-old woman from Kannur in Mangaluru who was suffering from cancerous tumor on her left leg which recurred after initial surgery done elsewhere. Addressing media persons on Wednesday, doctors of the hospital said that the only option in such situation was

Bareilly, Feb 3: A new fatwa issued by Sunni Barelvi clerics of dargah Aala Hazrat states that as per Islamic law pilgrims should clear their debts before embarking on Haj. The clerics reasoned that all types of taxes imposed by the government are also 'debt', and pilgrims must therefore clear them, including house and income taxes. Mufti Mohammed Salim Noori, the cleric who passed the fatwa, said

Before even scoring a point, Ibtihaj Muhammad will make history this summer in Rio de Janeiro by being the first U.S. athlete to compete at the Olympics in a hijab, the headscarf worn by Muslim women. Muhammad, an African American women’s saber fencer, first made history several years ago when she became the first Muslim woman to compete for the U.S. in fencing. Now that she has qualified for the

Mangaluru, Feb 3: An elderly couple was brutally attacked by a group of miscreants, suspected to be activists of a saffron group at Kalladka in Bantwal taluk on Monday night. The unprovoked and unexpected attack took place hours after miscreants belonging to two communities involved in a clash following a road accident in the communally sensitive town. It is learnt that the miscreants waylaid and

Kasargod, Feb 3: A CPI (M) leader was caught red handed on CCTV footage committing robbery. The visuals of Raghavan from Kasargod, doing robbery went viral and the party was forced to expel him with immediate effect to avoid further embarrassment. Raghavan went missing since the video of him with an iron rod trying to break into a businessman’s house went viral on YouTube and other social media

Morena, Feb 3: Setting a rare example of communal harmony, Muslims in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district have given land to build Ram Temple in their village. Morena's Khedakala village made headlines after the people of Muslim community here gave land to Hindus to build 'Sri Ram Janki Temple' in the village. Also, these Muslims collected about Rs 50,000 and gave the amount to aid construction of

New Delhi, Feb 3: The CBI has filed its first chargesheet against gangster Chhota Rajan and three former officials of the Bengaluru Passport Office accusing them of criminal conspiracy and forgery over issuance of fake passport to him which he used to escape to Australia. CBI Press Information Officer RK Gaur said the charge sheet has been filed in the Special Court, Patiala House which has also

Bengaluru, Feb 3: Karnataka’s roads may not have much to boast about, but the Congress manifesto released ahead of the elections to local bodies promises much on technology-based connectivity. Among the promises are provisions of Internet at all gram panchayats to implement e-governance, establishment of information kiosks, and computerisation of records. More grounded promises such as providing

Mangaluru, Feb 3: Five persons have been arrested in connection with a clash that broke out between two groups in Janata Colony at Katipalla here on Monday night. The clash broke out following a heated exchange of words between neighbours after a goat from one family ate wheat that was left to dry in the house of the other on Friday. The dispute flared up on Monday after the family members were

Puducherry, Feb 3: Priyanka Gandhi’s daughter Miraya Vadra was the cynosure of all eyes as she took to the field on Tuesday for a basketball match here along with her team-mates from Haryana. The 42nd Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship for boys and girls has been organised by the Basketball Federation of India in association with Pondicherry Basketball Association in Puducherry from