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Chandigarh, Dec 3: The car of controversial actress Kangana Ranaut was stopped and surrounded by protesting farmers in Punjab's Kiratpur Sahib town on Friday, demanding an apology from her for comments against the women farmers. The incident took place close to Bunga Sahib gurdwara on the Chandigarh-Una highway. She was travelling from Manali to Chandigarh to board a flight to Mumbai. Video

Bengaluru, Dec 3: After detection of the country's first two cases of Omicron infection in Bengaluru, the Karnataka Health Department is now worried over 10 South African nationals, who have gone untraceable in Bengaluru, sources revealed. These South African nationals had arrived in Bengaluru between November 12 and 22. The Health department, which is on high alert after the detection of Omicron

Bengaluru, Dec 3: Amid rising concerns over Omicron cases in Karnataka, the state government banned all events, functions in educational Institutes as more clusters are being identified in these places. The government said that only 500 people will be allowed in marriage functions until further orders. These decisions were taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai with experts

Bengaluru, Dec 3: National Communicable Disease Control Programme Advisor Naresh Purohit on Friday said the finding of the variant of concern, Omicron, in a local resident of Bengaluru with no travel history shows the new Covid variant could already be in circulation in the country and may have been only detected now. "Mutation is a rule rather than an exception. Such mutations are bound to happen

Palakkad, Dec 3: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the murder of local leader RSS Sanjith of Elappuly, on late night Thursday arrested Popular Front of India (PFI) Chunangad unit President Nishadh alias Nizar (37) in connection with the murder, police said on Friday. Police said he was allegedly involved in the conspiracy and also helped the criminals to escape in his vehicle after

What happens when two nasty Covid-19 variants get together and share their most effective mutations? Omicron and delta have brought us closer to the answer, says Peter White, a virologist at the University of New South Wales who warns of the inevitability of a new Covid-19 "super strain." He joined Stephanie Topp, a global public health expert at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, and

Kasaragod, Dec 2: In what comes as a big blow to the ruling CPI(M) the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the Periya double murder case, on Thursday implicated former Uduma MLA and party's district secretariat member KV Kunhiraman and four other party workers for the crime. The CBI had on Wednesday arrested five of its party members in connection with the crime. This was the CBI's

Lucknown, Dec 2: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today warned that those who 'forced' Hindus to migrate from western Uttar Pradesh would face the same fate under the BJP rule. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had also made a similar comment a few days ago. Addressing a public meeting after laying the foundation stone of a university to be named after Shakumbara Devi at Saharanpur, Shah also raked

Bengaluru, Dec 2: The Karnataka Police have served notice to 10 persons, including Congress leader Gopalakrishna, in connection with a case of conspiring to kill three-time BJP MLA and BDA chief SR Vishwanath on Thursday. Vishwanath is said to be close to former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai reacted on the issue before flying off to New Delhi and said that the

Bengaluru, Dec 2: India has detected its first two cases of the new Omicron Coronavirus variant in Karnataka, the health ministry said on Thursday. "All primary contacts and secondary contacts of both the cases have been traced and are being tested," the health ministry's joint secretary Lav Agarwal told a news briefing. India was set to restart scheduled commercial international flights on