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New Delhi, Aug 18: Home Minister Amit Shah was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi in the wee hours of Tuesday. According to a medical bulletin issued by AIIMS, Shah has been complaining of “fatigue and body ache for last 3 to 4 days”. The bulletin also said he tested negative for Covid-19 after admission. “He has been admitted to AIIMS for post-Covid care

Kasaragod, Aug 18: The bodies of two youths found hanging from a tree in a forest area near Kumble in Kasaragod district today. It is suspected to be a suicide case. The deceased have been identified as Naikapu Vin Roshan (21) and Manikantha (19) resident of Kuntamgeradka near Kumble, Badiyadka. They were reported to be missing since Tuesday evening. On reaching the spot, Kumble police shifted the

Jeddah: As part of the 74th Indian Independence Day celebrations, India Fraternity Forum has launched a plasma donation campaign in Jeddah. In a ceremony at Indian Consulate Auditorium, Acting Consul General Y. Sabir officially inaugurated the campaign. He said that plasma donation is the best gift we can give back to this country, which has shown great examples of humanitarianism by placing great

Mangaluru, Aug 18: In a gruesome incident, an elderly man was hacked to death by his own son in a remote village in Dakshina Kannada district. The murder took place following a quarrel between the father and the son near Thingalady in Kedambady village of Puttur taluk. The victim is Gangadhar Nayak and the accused is his son Shashidhar Nayak. They have a house in Puttur’s Kirshina Nagar and

Dehradun, Aug 18: A woman has filed a police complaint against an Uttarakhand BJP MLA accusing him of raping her several times between 2016 and 2018, and she has been charged for allegedly blackmailing him following a complaint by the legislator's wife, police said on Monday. "The woman who is married levelled the allegations against the BJP's Dwarahat MLA Mahesh Negi. A complaint was lodged at

Kasargod, Aug 18: A 38-year-old man was hacked to death by a gang at Naykap near Kumble in Kasaragod district last night. Harish, a local resident, was found lying in a pool of blood on the road about a hundred metres away from his home. A pedestrian who noticed him, immediately passed on information to the Kumble police. The police took the critically injured Harish to Kumble hospital and then to

Bengaluru, Aug 18: Expelled Congress leader R Roshan Baig has alleged that the party in Karnataka had patronised "extreme radical" organisations for over a decade and that MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy, targeted in recent mob fury, was a victim of SDPI's "violence". A former state minister, he also claimed the "tacit understanding" was now backfiring on the Congress. "The Karnataka Congress

London, Aug 18: An Indian-origin physician is among 19 winners of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service for exceptional engineering achievements in tackling COVID-19 throughout the UK. Ravi Solanki, a physician working on neurodegenerative diseases, along with Raymond Siems, an engineer working in machine learning, were awarded for their volunteer

Washington, Aug 18: Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama slammed President Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention here on Monday (local time) by calling him a "wrong president" and said that the people "are living with the consequences" of the 2016 presidential elections. "So, let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can. Donald Trump is the wrong president for our

New Delhi, Aug 18 : With a spike of 55,079 cases and 876 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count reached 27,02,743 on Tuesday, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry. The country's COVID-19 count includes 6,73,166 active cases, 19,77,780 discharged/migrated patients. With 876 deaths, the toll due to the disease has risen to 51,797. The death toll had breached the 50