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New Delhi: India has got its first tribal President as Droupadi Murmu, the NDA's choice, scooped up over 50 per cent of the total vote value after three rounds of counting. Opposition's Yashwant Sinha is far behind. Droupadi Murmu has crossed the halfway mark after three rounds of counting. There is still one more round of counting to go. Among the states where votes have been counted include

Mangaluru, July 21: A teenage boy was brutally assaulted by a group of miscreants belonging to a saffron outfit earlier this week, breathed his last at a hospital in Mangaluru without responding to treatment. Muhammad Mashhood, 19, was attacked by on July 19 at Kalanja village near Bellare in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. A native of Moghral Puttur in Kasaragod district, Masood had

New Delhi, July 21: Sonia Gandhi, 75, was questioned for nearly three hours by the Enforcement Directorate today, on the first day of her appearance before the probe agency in an alleged money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper. What happened >> Sonia Gandhi arrived at the probe agency's headquarters in central Delhi a little after noon. She was escorted by her Z+ category

After the Udupi police gave clean chit to former minister K S Eshwarappa in suicide case of civil works contractor Santosh Patil, the latter’s wife has accused the cops of succumbing to the political pressure from the veteran BJP leader and not doing fair investigation. Renuka Patil, the wife of Santosh Patil, who was found dead in a lodge at Udupi on April 12 this year, demanded that the case be

New Delhi, July 20: Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair was released from Tihar jail on Wednesday night, hours after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in all FIRs lodged in Uttar Pradesh against him for alleged hate speech, prison officials said. Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 27 on false charge of hurting religious sentiments through his tweet. The tweet was in fact

Udupi, July 20: A 7-year-old girl was choked to death after gulping the chocolate in Bijur village near Baindur town in Udupi district today. The deceased schoolgirl has been identified as Samanvi, a 2nd standard student of Vivekananda English Medium School. According to police, the incident took place when the girl was boarding the school bus near her house. Samanvi was not willing to go to

Udupi, Jul 20: In a grisly road accident, a speeding ambulance skidded and crashed against a toll plaza at Shiroor in Byndoor taluk of Udupi district today killing four people on the spot. Four others suffered critical injuries in the horrific incident, the CCTV footages of which went viral on social media. In the video, the ambulance can be seen swerving and crashing into the toll gate as the

New Delhi, July 20: The number of Indians giving up their citizenship has further increased during the second tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The government has admitted in the Parliament that more than 3.9 lakh Indians have renounced their citizenship in the past three years to settle abroad. The government data shows that America has emerged as the top choice among 103 countries where

Bengaluru, July 20: Amidst concerns over intensified saffronisation of education, Karnataka School Education minister BC Nagesh has said the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 model will be introduced once it is over. He also said mainstream subjects will be introduced in madrasas on the lines of the decision taken by the Uttar Pradesh government. “The current focus of the government is the

For the first time on record, Britain suffered under temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius — 104 Fahrenheit — on Tuesday, as a ferocious heat wave moved northwest, leaving a trail of raging wildfires, lost lives and evacuated homes across a Europe frighteningly ill-equipped to cope with the new reality of extreme weather. While the heat’s effects cascaded from Greece to Scotland, the greatest