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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced India's squad for the Asia Cup 2025 on Tuesday, with Suryakumar Yadav continuing as captain. Surprisingly, Shubman Gill was elevated as the team's vice-captain in the shortest format, replacing Axar Patel. The selection meeting was held at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai, though a long delay was witnessed due to the late arrival of a few

Bengaluru, Aug 18: A four-year-old girl, who was bitten by a stray dog and had been battling for life in the hospital for four months, breathed her last in a private hospital in Bengaluru last night. The deceased has been identified as Khadira Banu (4) of Shastri lay-out in the city of Davanagere. The girl died after developing rabies due to a dog bite. A stray dog had attacked the girl when she

Bengaluru, Aug 18: Former MLA from Uttar Pradesh, Bhagwan Sharma alias Guddu Pandit, has been booked for the alleged sexual assault of a 40-year-old woman and for "threatening to kill her when she resisted," police said on Monday. According to the complaint, the woman, along with her minor son, travelled from Uttar Pradesh to Bengaluru on August 14 at the MLA’s insistence. On the same day, he

Mangaluru, Aug 18: Government Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru has set a new benchmark in patient care by introducing Karnataka’s first ambulance buggy service on Sunday. The facility will ease the movement of patients, medicines, and medical records across the hospital’s sprawling campus, making inter-block transfers smoother and faster. The buggy, costing ₹7 lakh, was purchased through the Area

HEAL Palestine, a US-based humanitarian organization that has been evacuating severely wounded Palestinian children from Gaza, strongly condemned the US decision to halt their visas. In a statement on Sunday, the group emphasized that it provides urgent medical aid and ensures that treated children and their accompanying family members are safely returned to Palestine. “Our mission gives children

Palestinian and international organizations have once again condemned Israel's "deliberate" starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) saying that humanitarian sites have become “killing fields.” The organizations on Sunday warned that the Israeli regime is slowly killing over 2 million innocent civilians, including over a million children, by starving them. Gaza’s

New Delhi: Amid its face-off with the Election Commission over allegations of vote fraud, the INDIA Opposition bloc is considering bringing a motion to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, sources have said. According to the sources, Opposition parties discussed bringing the motion to remove the poll body chief during a meeting of their leaders at Parliament this morning. The process

Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said Karnataka is already India's IT capital, and it is now stepping forward to become the world's 'Capital of Innovation'. He said Karnataka ranks second nationally in attracting foreign direct investment, and remains among the nation's leading industrial states. The Chief Minister said this while delivering his address at the 79th Independence Day

New Delhi: A Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Independence Day poster, featuring Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar placed above Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Subhas Chandra Bose, has sparked political controversy, with Opposition leaders accusing the government of glorifying a person once accused in Gandhi’s assassination. The image, posted on the Ministry’s official ‘X’ account, showed

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 79th Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, announced the launch of a “high-powered demography mission” aimed at addressing what he described as the threats posed by illegal immigration. Without naming specific groups, he alleged that there was a “well-thought-out conspiracy” to alter the country’s demographic balance. “These infiltrators are