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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. Speaking at Russia's flagship economic forum in St Petersburg, Putin said Russian tactical nuclear warheads had already been delivered to close ally

Mangaluru: The state government has released a compensation of Rs 25 lakh each to the kin of four victims of “politically motivated communal killings” that took place in Dakshina Kannada district. The government, in its order dated June 16, stated that the kin of Masood, Deepak Rao, Mohammad Fazil and Abdul Jaleel can collect the compensation amount at the Chief Minister’s Office ‘Krishna’ at 8 am

Bengaluru, June 17: Minister for Housing and Minority Welfare B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan has announced that he will bear the expenses of the Umrah pilgrimage of 100 volunteers, who had taken care of the pilgrims travelling to Hajj. Speaking after a prayer at the Haj Bhavan, Khan said that 170 such volunteers were sent on the Umrah pilgrimage last year. "Taking care of the Haj pilgrims and their

Newsroom, June 16: BJP National General Secretary C T Ravi has called upon the heads of the mutts to convene a 'maha panchayat' to save Hinduism. The call comes after Congress government of Karnataka repealed controversial anti-conversion bill introduced by previous BJP government and made it mandatory to read preamble of Indian constitution in schools and colleges across the state besides

Mangaluru, Jun 16: The government of Karnataka has posted senior IAS officer Mullai Muhilan MP as the new deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada replacing Ravi Kumar M R. Mullai Muhilan M P was earlier serving as the executive director of Centre for Smart Governance, Bengaluru. He is a 2013 batch IAS officer. Ravikumar M R had taken charge as the DC of Dakshina Kannada on October 31, 2022. In

Madikeri, June 16: A college student died in a scooter-motorbike collision in Kushalnagar town of Kodagu district on Friday. The deceased was identified as 21-year-old Bhavana, a resident of Indira Locality in Kushalnagar. According to police, Bhavana, a student of Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa college, was travelling on a scooter with her friend near Coorg Cineplex when they were hit by an

Tumakuru, 16: A teenage girl was strangled to death by her father, brother and uncle in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district in a case of honour killing. Tumakuru SP Rahul Kumar Shahapurwad said on Friday that the three accused — Parashurama, Shivaraju, Tukaram — have been arrested. The barbaric incident occurred after the victim Netravati’s family became enraged that she was in love with a boy belonging

Mangaluru, Jun 16: A 35-year-old man was attacked with knife by a miscreant following a brawl outside the mosque near Janata Colony of Kana at Suratkal on the outskirts of the city last night. Mohammed Shafi (35), an office bearer of the administrative committee of mosque, has suffered injuries on this back and hand in the attack. He is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city. The

As the communal tension continues to intensify in the northeastern state of Manipur, the house of Union Minister RK Ranjan Singh was attacked by a mob of over 1,000 people last night (June 15). Officials said that Singh was not at the house in Imphal at the time of the incident. As per media reports, despite the curfew in Imphal, the agitated mob managed to reach the minister's house at Kongba

Bengaluru, June 15: The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to make it mandatory for all schools and colleges, whether government, aided or private, to read the Preamble of the Constitution daily. It has also made it compulsory to have a portrait of the Preamble of the Constitution put up at all government and semi-government offices in the state. "Keeping in mind the freedom struggle, the idea