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Bengaluru, Aug 18: Congress legislator Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, whose house was destroyed during violence that broke out in parts of Bengaluru on August 11, has demanded CBI probe into incident. Murthy told news agency over phone that he has urged Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa to give the case to CBI. "I have urged the Chief Minister to provide compensation to the people of the constituency who

Bengaluru, Aug 17: The Karnataka government would set up 16 universities and 34 autonomous educational institutions in three years, Deputy Chief Minister of the state Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said on Monday. With the setting up of the institutions, the aim is to achieve the goals of the new Education Policy by year 2030, he told a press conference. "The government of Karnataka will establish six

Newsroom, Aug 17: A doctored image of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath sitting with a plate full of pork on his side is now going viral on social media platforms. The photo is uploaded by many users on Facebook. It is also being widely circulated on WhatsApp. What’s the fact? The photo is the morphed version of the original photo where the plate beside Yogi has Hindu puja items instead

Gaza, Aug 17: The Israeli military has intensified its attacks on the Gaza Strip, with its tanks pounding several positions in the besieged enclave. "Tanks targeted a number of military observation posts” belonging to the Hamas resistance movement in Gaza early on Monday, the Israeli army claimed in a statement. The attacks, it said, came in response to incendiary balloons sent from Gaza to the

Jerusalem, Aug 17: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel is preparing for direct flights, over Saudi Arabia, to the United Arab Emirates as part of its normalisation deal with the UAE. Israel and the UAE announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic relations under a U.S.-sponsored deal whose implementation could reshape Middle East politics from the Palestinian

New Delhi, Aug 17: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit out at the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, alleging that incidents of caste violence and crimes against women are rampant in the state. Attacking the Adityanath government over the killing of a Dalit village head in Azamgarh's Basgaon, Rahul Gandhi alleged that in Uttar Pradesh

A new strain of the novel coronavirus called 'D614G', deemed ten times more infectious, has been detected in Malaysia, said Director General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah in a Facebook post on Saturday. The mutation has been spotted in three cases from a cluster which started when a restaurant owner and permanent resident returned to the country from India. It has also been detected in another

Bengaluru, Aug 17: With no one reportedly coming to their aid due to the Covid-19 scare, a family was forced to transport a body on a bicycle amid heavy rains at a village in Belagavi district on Sunday. As the video of the incident went viral, the Congress state unit flayed the government for its "apathy" to provide an ambulance to transport the body. Sharing the video on Twitter, Congress state

Bengaluru, Aug 17: The Karnataka government has decided to approach the High Court for the appointment of a 'Claim Commissioner', in order to assess the damage caused to public and private property during the August 11 Bengaluru violence, and to make the agitators pay for these damages. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday. Tweeting the same, the

Bengaluru, Aug 17: Enraged over sharing in Whatsapp the recent Supreme Court order about women's rights on the ancestral property, four youth allegedly attacked their uncle and aunt here, police said on Monday. M Shashikala lodged a complaint that the sons of her brothers Dhanaraj and Mohan attacked her and her hotelier- husband Muttu on August 12, the police said. She stated that Muttu had in the