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Bengaluru, Dec 24: Buses of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation and Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, autorickshaws and cabs will operate during night curfew which starts from Thursday night, said Karnataka Transport Minister Laxman Savadi. The government of Karnataka has imposed a night curfew in the state from December 24 to January 2, 2021, in the wake of the detection of a

Kanhangad (Kasaragod), Dec 24: A DYFI worker was stabbed to death at Old Kadappuram here. The deceased was identified as Ouf Abdul Rahiman (30). His friend Shuhaib also was injured in the attack. The incident took place on Wednesday at 10.30 pm. When both Ouf and Shuhaib were coming to Kadappuram on a bike, a group of criminals blocked them on Kallooravi-Old Kadappuram road and stabbed them. Their

Nagpur, Dec 24: A 28-year-old man in Nagpur, who tested positive for COVID-19 on December 15, is suspected of carrying the new strain of COVID-19 found in the United Kingdom, administration of Government Medical College, Nagpur said on Thursday. As per Dr Avinash Gawande, Superintendent, Government Medical College Nagpur, the patient, who returned from the UK on November 29, was tested at the

Mumbai, Dec 23: Passengers flying into India's biggest airports on Wednesday complained of long waits and confusion as authorities sought to impose rules to try to stop the spread of a new more transmissible variant of the coronavirus. Like many countries, India has suspended flights from Britain, where cases have soared because of the variant. People arriving from Britain before the ban came into

Lucknow, Dec 23: All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) member Zafaryab Jilani said on Wednesday said the mosque which is planned to come up in Ayodhya following last year's Supreme Court verdict was against the Waqf Act and "illegal" under the Shariat laws. Athar Hussain, the secretary of a trust formed to build the mosque in Ayodhya, however, said everyone interprets the Shariat in their

Kochi, Dec 23: Eminent Malayalam poet, conservationist and women's activist, Sugathakumari, who had tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment, passed away at the government medical college hospital on Wednesday. She was 86 and leaves behind daughter Lakshmi Devi, family sources said. The octogenarian poet rarely made any public appearance in recent days due to old age difficulties

Mangaluru, Dec 23: The mastermind behind the recent kidnap of an 8-year-old boy from Ujire in Dakshina Kannada district, was a former partner of the boy’s father, according police. The boy was traced in a house in Koormahosahalli in Malur taluk in Kolar district within two days after he was kidnapped from near his house on December 17. The kidnappers, who were finally arrested by the police, had

Wilmington, Dec 23: US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that the United States may lose "tens of thousands" of more lives due to COVID-19, despite the vaccine rollout and urged Americans to remain vigilant as cases continue to spike. Speaking at a virtual address here, Biden said: "Experts say things are going to get worse before they are going to get better -- notwithstanding the fact

Mangaluru, Dec 22: All those who flew into Mangaluru from the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Netherlands since December 7 this year will have to undergo covid tests again after a new strain of covid-19 with high transmissibility was reported in the UK. Dakshina Kannada district administration has noted that 56 passengers from the UK had arrived into the district through Kempegowda International

New Delhi, Dec 22: India stopping flights to and from Britain after a new strain of Covid-19 with high transmissibility was reported in the UK has upset plans of many who were to come back home before the New Year or return to universities there for pending research work. The flight suspension till the end of this year was announced on Monday in view of detection of a new rapid-spreading strain of