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Mangaluru, Mar 11: Mohammed Adil Shabir from Aakash Institute, Mangaluru, has scored 99.29 percentile in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2021 conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) from February 24 to 26. Aakash Chaudhry, Managing Director & Co-Promoter at Aakash Educational, has congratulated the boy for his splendid performance. A total of 6.52 lakh candidates were registered

Bengaluru, Mar 11: Former JD(S) MLA Madhu Bangarappa on Thursday announced joining the Congress, saying there is scope for him to work and express his sentiments in his new party. Putting all speculation to rest, Madhu on Thursday called on former chief minister Siddaramaiah and said he was joining the Congress. "All our supporters had taken the decision. Hence, I am joining Congress today," Madhu

The world's largest democracy is actually an 'electoral autocracy', according to a report. According to a report by Sweden-based institute Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), India is now among top 10 countries globally along with Brazil and Turkey where democracy has declined. In an electoral autocratic regime, "ruling governments first attack the media and civil society and polarise societies by

New Delhi: As many as 170 MLAs left the Congress to join other parties, especially BJP, during the elections held between 2016-2020 while only 18 BJP legislators switched parties to contest the polls in this period, according to a report by poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The ADR, in a new report, said between 2016-2020, 182 of the 405 re-contesting MLAs, who switched

Mangaluru, Mar 11: In a tragic incident, an 8-year-old boy died after being accidentally crushed under his father's truck at Moodbidri in Dakshina Kannada district. The incident occurred last evening. The victim has been identified as Murshid, the eldest among two children of Ibrahim and Raheema couple from Ujire. He was Class 3 student at a madrasa in Ujire. It is learnt that Murshid had

Mysuru, Mar 11: In a rare incident, a high school teacher helped deliver a girl at a park in Mysuru and saved the mother and her child in the nick of time by following the guidance and instructions of a doctor from Mumbai over phone. Mallika, a 35-year-old expectant mother from Gonikoppal in Kodagu district, was in the park opposite Mini Vidhana Soudha in Nazarabad area of Mysuru when she

Mangaluru, Mar 11: Customs officers at Mangaluru International Airport today seized huge quantity of gold and foreign origin cigarettes from a female passenger on Thursday March 11. The passenger, Mohammed Ali Sameera from Kasargod, came from Dubai by Air India flight. She was trying to smuggle gold by concealing it in her innerwear including sanitary pads and also in socks. Gold of net weight 2

Warren Buffett has been a fixture at the top of the world’s wealth rankings for decades, but in recent years he’s slipped down the list as tech fortunes soared and his hot hand cooled. Now, at 90, his net worth has blown past $100 billion. The Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman’s wealth jumped on Wednesday to $100.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That makes Buffett the sixth

New Delhi, Mar 11: India recorded 22,854 cases of coronavirus infection in a day, the highest in around two-and-half-months, taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 1,12,85,561, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. This is the first time in this year that the country saw a daily Covid-19 spike of over 22,000 cases. The death toll increased to 1,58,189 with 126 daily

Sullia, Mar 11: A speeding pickup vehicle rammed into four youths that were waiting for bus at Paraje in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada last night. One among the four lost his life while three others suffered injuries. The deceased has been identified as Muhammad Murshid, a resident of Duggaladka in Sullia. The injured have been identified as his friends – Rafeeq, Sateesh and Umar. The incident