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Mangaluru, Feb 18: Income tax (I-T) department sleuths continued their searches on Thursday (February 18) at the four medical institutions. Over 250 I-T sleuths are involved in the search operations that started yesterday (February 17) morning. The I-T sleuths are accompanied by Enforcement Directorate officials. Search operations are going on at residences, offices and hospitals belonging to the

Rashmi Samant, the first Indian woman to be elected president of the Oxford University Student Union, has quit after the emergence of old social media posts that were deemed to be “racist” and “insensitive”. Although Rashmi, who graduated from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and is from Udupi district of Karnataka, released an open letter apologising for her comments after there was a

Unnao, Feb 18: The bodies of two minor Dalit girls were found in a field here on Wednesday, police said. Three minor girls were found in the field in the evening by the villagers when they did not return after they left their house to bring fodder for the cattle, they said. The hands and feet of the girls were tied with their dupatta and they were frothing at the mouth, sources said. The villagers

Vijayapura, Feb 17: The BJP’s Karnataka unit chief Nalin Kumar Kateel said on Wednesday the Yediyurappa government might introduce a law against so called "love jihad" in the next assembly session. "There is love jihad going on in the state. I am confident that in the next session our government will bring a law to control love jihad in the state," Kateel said after inaugurating the BJP state unit

Udupi, Feb 17: An elderly man who was waiting to cross the National Highway 66 at Koppalangady in Kaup, Udupi lost his life after a speeding car knocked him down. The victim has been identified as U Shahabuddin aka Shabu Saheb (80). The reckless car which was heading towards Mangaluru from Udupi at high speed rammed into the octogenarian, sources said. The elderly man suffered critical injuries on

Mysuru, Feb 17: It will put an end to the concept of appointing guest lecturers if the Chief Minister approves for the appointment of 8000 lecturers, for whom the demand has been already submitted, Deputy Chief Minister Dr.C.N.Ashwatha Narayana, who also holds higher education portfolio, said on Wednesday. Speaking to the media after visiting government first grade women’s college here, he said

Bengaluru, Feb 17: The beginning of 2021-22 academic year in Karnataka will be delayed at least by 45 days and it will begin from July 15. The Department of Public Instruction has decided to start classes for the 2021-22 academic year on July 15, 2021, as against June 1, usually done. Covid pandemic has derailed the academic calendar this year. According to the department officials, considering

The IPL 2021 auction will be held in Chennai on Thursday (Feb 18, 2021) and a total of 292 players will go under the hammer. There are some big international and Indian names in the list and it will be interesting to see how the teams react when some of the big names, released by the franchisees, are called out. Kings XI Punjab, who will now be called as Punjab Kings, have the biggest purse and

New Delhi, Feb 17: Even as the petrol crossed the Rs 100 mark today Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to hold his predecessors responsible by saying that middle-class would not have been burdened if the previous governments had focussed on reducing India's energy import dependence. Without referring to the relentless increase in retail fuel prices he said India imported over 85 per cent of its

Bengaluru, Feb 17: Days after alleging RSS was marking houses of those who did not donate for Ram Temple in Ayodhya, former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday said he was not opposed to the construction of the shrine, but only wanted more transparency in the fund mobilisation. The government has a responsibility to check who was collecting funds for the Ram Temple, he told a