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Prayagraj, Oct 26: While hearing the bail application of one Rahmuddin, accused of cow slaughter and sale of beef under Sections 3, 5 and 8 of the said Act, the Single Bench of Justice Siddharth observed, "Act is being misused against innocent persons. Whenever any meat is recovered, it is normally shown as cow meat (beef) without getting it examined or analyzed by the Forensic Laboratory. In most

Mangaluru, Oct 26: Royal Bengal Tiger ‘Vikram’, the star attraction of Dr Shivaram Karanth Biological Park at Pilikula on the outskirts of Mangaluru, died today due to age-related illness. He was 21. Vikram was among the first lot of tigers to arrive at this park managed by from the Tyavarekoppa Lion and Tiger Safari in Shivamogga in 2003. He was just 4-year-old. According to Park Director H

Udupi, Oct 26: A married man, who had disappeared after getting a critically ill girl admitted to a private hospital, has been arrested by the police after she breathed her lost without responding to any treatment. The police took more than a day to trace Prashant Kundar, who reportedly had a live-in relationship with the deceased girl, identified as Rakshita. Rakshita’s condition was critical

New York, Oct 26: Ananya Birla, the daughter of Aditya Birla Group's billionaire chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, has slammed a US restaurant for being "racist", saying the Italian-American dining place in California "literally threw" her and her family out of their premises. The singer and artist took to Twitter to share her ordeal on Saturday, saying "this is not okay". "This restaurant

New Delhi, Oct 26: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Monday demanded initiation of proceedings for contempt of a Delhi High Court order against the administration of corporation run-Hindu Rao Hospital. The doctors there are on an indefinite hunger strike demanding payment of their salaries. The association called the matter a systematic failure and equated it with a "banana republic." "The

Shanghai, Oct 26: China reported the highest number of asymptomatic COVID-19 cases in nearly seven months, following a mass infection of an unknown origin in the northwestern Xinjiang region. Xinjiang health authorities found 137 asymptomatic cases on Sunday amid a testing drive for the 4.75 million people in the Kashgar area triggered by an asymptomatic infection in a 17-year-old female garment

Several Arab trade associations have announced a boycott of French products, in response to recent comments made by President Emmanuel Macron on Islam. Earlier this month, Macron pledged to fight “Islamist separatism”, which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France. He also described Islam as a religion “in crisis” worldwide and said the government would

Pune, Oct 26: Rahul Umesh Shetty, a local Shivsena leader was shot dead in Maharashtra’s Lonavla today morning. Shetty, who was the former Lonavla unit chief of Shivsena, hailed from coastal Karnataka. A suspect has been nabbed and further investigation is underway, the police said. As per the preliminary probe, two persons attacked Rahul (38) near his office at Jaychand chowk in Lonavla around 9

The steep decline in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Karnataka indicate that the infections are shifting from high population density areas to other places, a noted epidemiologist said. After clocking up to 10,000 cases daily for over a week early this month with fatalities even touching 200 on certain occasions, the caseload has come down to about 5,000 to 6,000 in the last week

Udupi, Oct 26: A woman who consumed a sliced papaya without knowing that it was laced with rat poison lost her life on October 24 at Kudi village in Udupi taluk. The victim has been identified as Shreemathi (43), wife of Vaman Naik. Vaman Naik runs a cashew factory behind his residence at Devaragunda in Kudui. The cashew factory is infested with rats. To control the menace of rodents, the family