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New Delhi, Nov 1: Indian security forces have issued advisories as well as started preparing contents to educate jawans against being trapped by enemy nations to give away strategic information. Cloning of Facebook profiles is one such tactic to retrieve information that has been rampant of late. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has issued one such letter raising an alarm about the cloning of

Paris: A Greek Orthodox priest has been critically injured in a shooting outside a church in the French city of Lyon, a police source and witnesses said. Nikolaos Kakavelaki, a 52-year-old Greek citizen, was closing his Lyon church mid-afternoon on Saturday when he was shot twice in the chest at point-blank range, sources close to the inquiry told the AFP news agency. The priest is now in a local

Mysuru, Oct 31: The coldblooded murders of an NRI woman from and her two children have shocked a small suburb in South Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. 37-year-old Seema Banu Syed, who hailed from Karnataka, her 11-year-old daughter Asfira Riza and 6-year-old son Faizan Syed were on Friday found strangled to death in their house in Llywellen Court in Ballinteer suburb of Ireland. According to

New Delhi, Oct 31: The Hindutva movement is the "mirror image" of the Muslim communalism of 1947 and its triumph would mark the end of the Indian idea, says senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, asserting that Hindutva is a political doctrine, not a religious one. A 'Hindu India' would not be Hindu at all, but a "Sanghi Hindutva state", which is a different country altogether, says Tharoor in his

Washington, Oct 31: The United States set a new all-time high for coronavirus cases confirmed in a single 24-hour period on Friday, reporting just over 100,000 new infections to surpass the record total of 91,000 posted a day earlier, according to a Reuters tally. The daily caseload of 100,233 is also a world record for the global pandemic, surpassing the 97,894 cases reported by India on a single

Hasanpur, Oct 31: He relinquished Mahua and shifted to "safe" seat of Hasanpur assembly segment, but the gamble seems tough for Lalu Prasad's elder son Tej Pratap Yadav who is pitted against a formidable JD(U) sitting legislator. Hasanpur seat is located in the Samastipur district of Bihar but comes under the Khagaria Lok Sabha constituency. Tej Pratap Yadav, who had plunged into electoral

Bengaluru, Oct 31: Former mayor and Congress leader Sampath Raj went missing from Friday night after authorities at the hospital, where he was admitted for COVID-19 treatment in the city allegedly discharged him without informing the police, informed police officials on Saturday. Sampath Raj is an accused in the case related to the recent mob violence in the city. Sandeep Patil, Joint Commissioner

Bengaluru, Oct 31: A vegetable vendor in Bengaluru has been fined for traffic violations amounting to more than the purchase cost of his scooter. Arun Kumar, a resident of Madivala here, has been fined Rs 42,500, way more than the cost of his second-hand scooter. On Friday, he was stopped by traffic police for not wearing a helmet, but he was shocked to get about a two-metre-long bill for the Rs

Bengaluru, Oct 31: In view of festival season, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Bengaluru Division on Friday launched 'Meri Saheli' or 'Nanna Sakhi' initiative for the security of women passengers in trains. "An initiative of RPF, the strategy entails interaction with lady passengers especially those travelling alone by a team of young lady RPF personnel at the originating station. These

Moscow, Oct 31: Retired mixed martial arts champion Khabib Nurmagomedov on Friday denounced French President Emmanuel Macron as a "brute" and invoked God's wrath against him. Nurmagomedov, one of the world's most popular Muslim athletes, issued the strongly-worded statement against Macron for his defence of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed based on the right of freedom of expression. "May God