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Bali (Indonesia), Oct 28: Underworld don Chhota Rajan today said he was not scared of threats to his life from rival gangs, including from Dawood Ibrahim, even as the Indonesia Police has provided him with special commando protection. "I am not scared," he said when reporters asked him if he was scared of threats to his life from rival gangs, including one headed by Dawood. Arrested on arrival

Mangaluru, Oct 28: Around 130 free digital hearing aids were distributed to identified beneficiaries above five years of age from Dakshina Kannada district at a programme jointly organised at Lions Seva Mandir in Mallikatte here on Wednesday, in the presence of health minister U T Khader and other dignitaries. The programme was jointly organised by Lions Club Mangaluru, Naseema Institute of Speech

New Delhi, Oct 28: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said his firm is working on an open framework and continues to 'lobby' for net neutrality even as its plan to provide free Internet access to people under Free Basics programme faces criticism. "We do a lot to support (net neutrality) in terms of regulations, we are working on building an open framework..." Zucerkerbg said, while speaking at

Mangaluru, Oct 28: Dakshina Kannada district-in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai has expressed concern over growing ties between communal forces in the coastal Karnataka and underworld operatives. Responding to the queries of media persons over threat calls to the ministers in the aftermath of Moodbidri murder, Mr Rai said that the police department should be ruthless towards those who trying to

Lahore, Oct 28: Former president Pervez Musharraf has admitted that Pakistan supported and trained terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba in 1990s to carry out militancy in Kashmir. "In 1990s the freedom struggle began in Kashmir...At that time Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and 11 or 12 other organisations were formed. We supported them and trained them as they were fighting in Kashmir at the cost of their

Mangaluru, Oct 28: The death of a 30-year-old pregnant woman at the government hospital in Vittla in Bantwal taluk triggered a protest by her relatives. Family members of 30-year-old Girija carried out a protest following her death at the government hospital in Vitla late on Monday night. According to District Health Officer Ramakrishna Rao, a pregnant Girija was admitted at the hospital for

Mangaluru, Oct 28: Seeking divine intervention to prevent Yettinahole water diversion project, people from different faiths and communities took part in an all-religion prayer service on Tuesday near the Netravati Bridge on the outskirts of the city. A large number of people took part in the programme organised by the Ullal unit of Netravathi Samrakshana Samiti. People marched from the Thokkottu

Mangaluru, Oct 28: A group of Bajrang Dal activists stormed into a salon and attacked its owner without any provocation at Nellyadi in Uppinangady on Tuesday. Reason for the attack? The one who was running the salon was a Muslim and he had opened the shop on Tuesday for cleaning when other salons in the area were closed. Shaima Men’s Parlour, owned by Sadiq, a local resident and run by Salman from

Bengaluru, Oct 28: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has accused the BJP of conspiring against him and deliberately creating a rift between the dalit and the backward class communities. He has also indirectly attacked his own party leaders for colluding with the BJP in a bid to oust him from power. Siddaramaiah, who was supposed to inaugurate the Valmiki Jayanti celebrations at the Banquet Hall in

Bengaluru: Oct 28: The killing of writer M M Kalburgi and rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and the Dadri lynching form a “dangerous” trend, said Abhitej Singh Sandhu (in picture), the grandnephew of freedom martyr Bhagat Singh. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, he lamented the youth had become intolerant towards other religions, castes, and anything which was not their ideology. True freedom still