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After the death of veteran social worker and Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh, former CBI director Nageswara Rao, who was controversially installed in a midnight coup by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office, revealed himself as the new Hindutva icon spewing hate. “Good riddance @swamiagnivesh. You were an anti-Hindu donning saffron clothes. You did enormous damage to Hinduism. I am ashamed

Bengaluru, Sept 12: Karnataka on Saturday reported 9,140 new coronavirus cases taking the total number of infections to 4,49,551 while the death toll touched 7,161 with 94 fatalities, the Health department said. The total infections comprised 3,44,556 discharges including 9,557 on Saturday whereas there were 97,815 active cases in the state including 795 in the ICU, the department said in a

New Delhi, Sept 11: Renowned social activist and Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh passed away today at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi. He was 80. Agnivesh had been suffering from liver cirrhosis and was put on ventilatory support on Tuesday due to multiple organ failure. Born to a Brahmin couple in Andhra Pradesh, Swami Agnivesh renounced his name and caste, religion

Mangaluru, Sept 11: The script of Beary, a widely-spoken language in coastal Karnataka, was released here today by the Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy, thus earning the dialect a rare distinction of having its own and fresh script. Releasing the script, Academy president Rahim Uchil said that Beary is mother tongue for around 20 lakh people, most of whom reside in coastal belt of Karnataka and

Bengaluru, Sept 11: Rubbishing the allegations of having links with the drugs racket as baseless, Congress legislator B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan on Friday said that he was being targeted for being a Muslim. “I’m a minority, a Muslim...some people aren’t able to digest my growth,” Khan told reporters after meeting Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah. Khan said he would file a defamation

Bengaluru, Sept 11: The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) on Friday predicted fairly widespread heavy rains and scattered to widespread light to moderate rains over several parts of Karnataka for Saturday. "Fairly widespread to widespread moderate to heavy rains with isolated very heavy to extremely heavy rains likely over Coastal and Malnad regions. Scattered to

Shanghai, Sept 11: A flight from Delhi carrying 212 Indians, few foreign and Chinese nationals landed in Ningbo, China on Thursday night, according to Consulate General of India in Shanghai. "Late night of Sept 10 #VBM with 212 Indians few foreign and Chinese nationals flew into Ningbo from Delhi uniting family members & enabling to join back work in China. The flight carried back 54 Indians who

Mumbai, Sept 11: The seers of Ayodhya and the Vishva Hindu Parishad have openly supported controversial actress Kangana Ranaut, who has involved in a face-off with the Shiv Sena. They also said that Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray is no more welcome in Ayodhya where Ram Temple is being built after demolition of Babri Masjid. Thackeray had visited Ayodhya on November 24, 2018, then on

New Delhi, Sept 11: The much-awaited findings of the first national serosurvey conducted by the ICMR, published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, indicate that 0.73 per cent adults in India were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 amounting to a total of 6.4 million infections by early May. The survey was conducted from May 11 to June 4 and covered 28,000 individuals whose blood samples were tested for

Bengaluru, Sept 11: A total of 130 taluks in 23 districts of Karnataka have now been declared as the flood hit zones. An order, issued by the Revenue Department (Disaster Management), said that due to very heavy rainfall and floods in the month of August, loss of life, crop loss in large tracts of land, damage to basic facilities and others were reported. All the taluks of Malnad and coastal