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Within five days of a senior woman's admission at hospital in the city of Madeenah after being fatally hit by an accident, the hospital personnel informed her Umrah agent in Jeddah and her compatriots that the medical insurance coverage of Saudi Riyals 100K has fully been utilized for her medical treatments. They also mentioned that the patient or her Umrah agent has to bear the further medical

Puttur, Mar 6: A middle aged man lost his life when a speeding police jeep collided with a two-wheeler on the Mani-Mysuru national highway near Sampya in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada last night. The deceased has been identified as B Laxmana Naik, 50, the CEO of an agricultural cooperative bank at Arlapadavu, and a resident of Kote under Panaje village. Naik was traveling towards Arlapadavu

Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly developing a new feature, “silence unknown callers”, which will allow users to mute calls from unknown numbers while still showing them in the calls list and notification centre. According to WABetaInfo, the new feature is currently under development on WhatsApp beta for Android. This feature will also include several advantages, such as reducing interruptions and

Mangaluru: With the arrest of Thufail MH, a leader of now banned Popular Front of India, the number of arrests in the murder case of Dakshina Kannada BJP youth leader Praveen Nettaru has mounted to 15. The National Investigation Agency nabbed Thufail MH, former secretary of PFI's Kodagu district unit, on Saturday night from Dasarahalli, near Amruthahalli, north Bengaluru. Nettaru, a BJP Yuva

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Dakshina Kannada police conducted drives against the illegal sale of liquor in various police station limits in the district. By conducting raids in Belthangady, Puttur rural, Kadaba and Bantwal’s Vittal police station limits on Friday, 17.38 litres of liquor worth Rs 6,799 meant for illegal sale were seized. The police teams also arrested four people and seized a two-wheeler

Bengaluru, Mar 5: The Karnataka government is on alert and has called a high-level meeting of experts against the backdrop of a persistent cough, sometimes accompanied by fever, running through India for the past two-three months. The Karnataka government on Sunday said a meeting has been called with the health department officials and experts on March 6, to deliberate on the preventive measures

Mangaluru, Mar 5: Hundreds of graduates from across coastal Karnataka seeking jobs met their recruiting companies on Sunday, March 5, at the job fair held as part of Beary Mela in the city. The ‘Job Mela’ was formally inaugurated by S M Rashid Haji, chairperson of Bearys’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Abdul Hameed Kolyar, CEO, Heat Solutions, Kuwait; Abu Salih from Nafees Group, Dubai

The Chennai police under the CCB Cyber Crime Division registered a case against former police BJP Tamil Nadu President Annamalai for inciting violence and promoting enmity between two groups after rumours of attacks on migrant workers in the state Messages with videos of migrant workers being 'attacked' were doing the rounds on social media and went viral. One such fake message was allegedly a

The BJP seems to be falling back on its seasoned oarsman B S Yediyurappa making him a key poll mascot, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as it shores up campaign in poll-bound Karnataka. The octogenarian, who has already announced his retirement from electoral politics, is sought to be put on the pedestal by the governing party's central leaders. The reasons are not far to seek as to why

An Indian passenger on an American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi allegedly urinated on a fellow passenger while drunk on Saturday, March 5. The accused has been identified as 21-year-old Arya Vohra, a student at a US university, and has been banned by the airline. According to a statement by American Airlines, flight AA292 from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Indira Gandhi