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New Delhi, Sept 4: After a three-day "coordination" meeting with the top brass of the government and the BJP, the RSS today said the Modi government was moving in the right direction with commitment and dedication and rejected criticism that it was acting like a "remote control". The Sangh Parivar's founthead said it was not reviewing the government's performance but was only giving "inputs" to

New Delhi, Sep 4: A total of 21 people died during Haj pilgrimage this year, out of which 20 deaths were due to natural causes and one person died in road accident. The External Affairs Ministry said 19 of the deaths have occurred due to cardiac arrest while one person died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with respiratory failure. “During Haj 2015, there have been 21 deaths so far of

Mangaluru, Sep 4: Around 200 students staged a 'rasta roko' programme under the banner of All College Students' Association (ACSA), Dakshina Kannada in front of the University College at Hampankatta here on Friday, demanding that the Yettinahole project should be scrapped by the state government. The 'rasta roko' was staged for about half an hour in protest of the unsystematic implementation of

Mangaluru: A group of environmental activists were detained by the police in the city on Friday after they staged a black-flag demonstration and tried to gherao union law minister DV Sadanada Gowda, who has reaffirmed his commitment to the Yettinahole river diversion project despite strong opposition to it in his home district. Mr Gowda was in the city to inaugurate Students' Bar Council at SDM

New Delhi, Sep 4: A Supreme Court judge on Friday recused himself from hearing a plea against removal of Special Public Prosecutor by NIA in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, saying that he had represented certain accused in the matter. The prosecutor had recently stirred a controversy by alleging that an officer of NIA had told her to “go soft” on the accused, a charge denied by the anti-terror

Dubai, Sep 4: As many as 11 Indian nationals are under detention in the UAE since early August on charges of planning to join the Islamic State (IS) and recruiting, financing and providing logistics to those willing to joining the terror outfit. This is after two Indians hailing from northern Kerala, detained as part of the same group, were deported from the UAE a couple of days ago and landed

Chennai, Sep 4: Nearly 40 passengers, including 25 women, were injured when Train No. 16859 Chennai Egmore-Mangalore Central Express derailed near Poovanur railway station in Tiruchi Division around 2 a.m. on Friday. The State police ruled out possibility of a sabotage. Preliminary reports suggested that six coaches, including the last vehicle, derailed. '108' ambulances were called to move the

New Delhi, Sep 4: Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to lease India's new strategic oil caverns at Mangaluru on the country's southwest coast, two sources said, giving it increased storage in a market where oil demand is increasing. A decision on the Mangaluru site, which has total capacity of around 11 million barrels of oil, depends on Shell winning relief from local sales tax, the sources said

Bengaluru/Chennai, Sep 4: About 150 passengers on board an Air India flight from Hyderabad to Chennai, which was diverted to Bengaluru, had a harrowing time as the flight could not take off from the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA)?here for over two hours. The flight AI-546 that took off from Hyderabad at 7.10 pm was diverted to Bengaluru following some landing problems at the Chennai

Bengaluru, Sep 4: The police have arrested a 25-year-old woman and her paramour for murdering her eight-year-old daughter by pushing her into a sump in Tavarakere police limits. The woman, identified as Latha and her paramour Ramesh, 28, both residents of Gollarapalya near Byadaralli, started having an affair after the death of Latha’s husband. According to the police, Latha was married to