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New Delhi: As many as 170 MLAs left the Congress to join other parties, especially BJP, during the elections held between 2016-2020 while only 18 BJP legislators switched parties to contest the polls in this period, according to a report by poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The ADR, in a new report, said between 2016-2020, 182 of the 405 re-contesting MLAs, who switched

Mangaluru, Mar 11: In a tragic incident, an 8-year-old boy died after being accidentally crushed under his father's truck at Moodbidri in Dakshina Kannada district. The incident occurred last evening. The victim has been identified as Murshid, the eldest among two children of Ibrahim and Raheema couple from Ujire. He was Class 3 student at a madrasa in Ujire. It is learnt that Murshid had

Mysuru, Mar 11: In a rare incident, a high school teacher helped deliver a girl at a park in Mysuru and saved the mother and her child in the nick of time by following the guidance and instructions of a doctor from Mumbai over phone. Mallika, a 35-year-old expectant mother from Gonikoppal in Kodagu district, was in the park opposite Mini Vidhana Soudha in Nazarabad area of Mysuru when she

Mangaluru, Mar 11: Customs officers at Mangaluru International Airport today seized huge quantity of gold and foreign origin cigarettes from a female passenger on Thursday March 11. The passenger, Mohammed Ali Sameera from Kasargod, came from Dubai by Air India flight. She was trying to smuggle gold by concealing it in her innerwear including sanitary pads and also in socks. Gold of net weight 2

Warren Buffett has been a fixture at the top of the world’s wealth rankings for decades, but in recent years he’s slipped down the list as tech fortunes soared and his hot hand cooled. Now, at 90, his net worth has blown past $100 billion. The Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman’s wealth jumped on Wednesday to $100.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That makes Buffett the sixth

New Delhi, Mar 11: India recorded 22,854 cases of coronavirus infection in a day, the highest in around two-and-half-months, taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 1,12,85,561, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. This is the first time in this year that the country saw a daily Covid-19 spike of over 22,000 cases. The death toll increased to 1,58,189 with 126 daily

Sullia, Mar 11: A speeding pickup vehicle rammed into four youths that were waiting for bus at Paraje in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada last night. One among the four lost his life while three others suffered injuries. The deceased has been identified as Muhammad Murshid, a resident of Duggaladka in Sullia. The injured have been identified as his friends – Rafeeq, Sateesh and Umar. The incident

Kolkata, Mar 11: Preliminary medical tests conducted on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee late on Wednesday night detected severe bone injuries in her left ankle and foot, and injuries in the right shoulder, forearm and neck, a senior doctor of the state-run SSKM hospital said. Doctors at the hospital decided to closely monitor Banerjee, who has been complaining of chest pain and

Bengaluru, Mar 10: The government of Karnataka has set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the alleged ‘sex-for-job’ scandal in which Water Resources Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi resigned his cabinet post. Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai has written to city police commissioner Kamal Pant, directing him to appoint IPS officer, ADGP Soumendu Mukherjee, as the SIT in-charge. Earlier

Bengaluru, Mar 10: The City Police has asked TV news channels to conform to the "Programming Code" and desist from airing objectionable videos, or else face action, in a move that came after some of them broadcast videos purportedly showing a former minister in "sex-for-job" clips which he has sought to dismiss as ''fake.'' Days after the resignation of Karnataka minister Ramesh Jarkiholi