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Udupi, Oct 30: Udupi Zilla Rajyotsava award committee has selected 40 achievers from different fields for the district level award for the year 2020. The awards will be conferred on November 1, 2020 to mark Kannada Rajyotsava. Following is the list of winners: Sriranga Pana, Hebri; Montu Panara, Karkala; Manjunath Sherigar, Hebri taluk – Deity Worship Parampalli Narasimha Aithal Saligrama, Vasanth

Amaravati, Oct 30: At least seven persons of a marriage party were killed and ten others injured when a van they were sitting in went berserk and rolled from hilltop in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours of Friday. About 30 persons, all relatives of the groom, sat in the Tata Ace van to return to their villages after the function was over at Kalyana Venkateswara Swamy temple

Mumbai, Oct 30: Posters of French President Emmanuel Macron were found pasted on a busy road in south Mumbai and were later removed by the police, an official said on Friday. Pedestrians and motorists in the Bhendi Bazaar area spotted hundreds of posters of Macron, who is facing criticism from Muslim countries over a cartoon row in France, pasted on the Mohammed Ali Road under JJ flyover on

Paris, Oct 30: A new suspect is in custody Friday in the investigation into a gruesome attack by a Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church, as France heightened its security alert amid religious and geopolitical tensions around cartoons mocking Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) The suspect is a 47-year-old man believed to have been in contact with the attacker the night before

Bengaluru, Oct 30: A staff of a diagnostic centre in RT Nagar, Bengaluru was caught offering fake Covid-19 negative results for Rs 12,000. This comes days after two staffers and a doctor were sacked for selling fake Covid negative reports. An employee at the centre said he was ready to supply fake negative result certificates for Covid-19 patients who sought clearance documents for international

San Francisco, Oct 30: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday warned of the potential for civil unrest as votes are tallied in a US election that will be “a test” for the social network. Zuckerberg expressed his concern while describing safeguards against misinformation and voter suppression at the leading social network that are intended to avoid the kinds of deception and abuse that played

Paris, Oct 30: Social networking platform Twitter on Thursday removed former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's tweet, for violating its rules banning the glorification of violence, shortly after a violent knife attack in Nice, which left three people dead. The tweet sparked an angry outburst on social media with many users calling out the former Malaysian prime minister. Cedric O, France

New Delhi, Oct 30: India has conveyed its serious concern to Saudi Arabia over "gross misrepresentation" of its external territorial boundaries in a banknote issued by the Gulf nation last week, and asked it to take "urgent corrective steps", the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. The global map printed on the new 20 Riyal banknote, released to mark Saudi Arabia's presidency of

Bengaluru, Oct 29: Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah on Thursday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks about dynastic corruption during Bihar election campaign and said it seemed a clear reference to Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and his sons. "People expected transparent and corruption-free governance. But, BS Yediyurappa is freely

Bengaluru, Oct 29: The sleuths of Enforcement Directorate in Bengaluru apprehended Bineesh Kodiyeri (42), younger son of CPI-M Kerala secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Thursday afternoon. It is suspected that he has been held under the Prohibition of Money Laundering Act for his alleged involvement with a Bengaluru drug dealer who was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in August