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Benglauru, Oct 2: Former Karnataka Minister and MLA Aravind Limbavali, who headed a fact-finding committee of the ruling BJP to probe the recent east Bengaluru violence said there was no wrongdoing by the police and demanded that the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) be banned. Handing over the report to Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa at the party office on Thursday, Limbavalli claimed that

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have test positive for covid-19. U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19. The president said they will begin “quarantine and recovery process immediately." The president was tested after Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides, also tested positive. Hicks traveled with Trump

Bengaluru, Oct 2: Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar and former State Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday took part in a protest condemning the incident wherein party leader Rahul Gandhi was roughed and detained by Uttar Pradesh police while he was on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to meet the family of gangrape victim along with party's general secretary Priyanka Gandhi and other

Bengaluru, Oct 2: The death toll due to COVID-19 in Karnataka breached the 9,000 mark on Friday, as the state reported 8,793 new cases of coronavirus and 125 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 6,20,630, the health department said. The day also saw 7,094 patients getting discharged after recovery. A total of 50,89,730 samples have been tested so far, out of which 92,059

Dubai/Manama, Oct 1: The World Bank has ranked the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as top destinations in the Arab world to invest in human capital. The Human Capital Index 2020 measures potential productivity in the health and education sectors across 98 percent of the world’s population — with a focus on the knowledge, skills and health that a child born today is expected to accumulate by their

Lucknow, Oct 1: A special court here has said the Central Bureau of Investigation did not probe on an “information” that people from Pakistan intelligence agency may have also entered and damaged Babri Masjid in Ayodhya to foment communal disturbances in the country. Special Judge S K Yadav referred to inconsistencies in testimonies of several prosecution witnesses while holding that the charge of

Lucknow, Oct 1: Forensic tests conducted under the supervisor of Yogi Adityanath government have claimed there was no rape in the Hathras case in which a 19-year-old woman was brutally assaulted by a group of men on September 14 while she was working on grass fields with her family. The victim died at a hospital in Delhi on Tuesday after battling for life for two weeks. ADG Law and Order Prashant

New Delhi, Oct 1: Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the death count due to COVID-19 is inching towards the 100,000-mark. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States. Reuters met and interviewed relatives of 30 people who died of the virus in India, from coastal Kerala on the country's southern tip to the Himalayan

New Delhi: In dramatic scenes on the highway between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh today, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained as they headed to Hathras to meet the family of the gang rape victim who died on Tuesday and whose dead-of-night cremation by the UP police has provoked nationwide outrage. Rahul Gandhi alleged that he was pushed to the ground and lathi-charged

Noida, Oct 1: Vehicles of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who were on their way to Hathras to meet the family of the Dalit gang-rape victim, were stopped in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida on Thursday, party officials said. The convoy was stopped near Pari Chowk, prompting party workers and senior leaders to proceed on foot, with some functionaries saying they will walk down