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Mangaluru, Dec 18: The police have arrested three miscreants for thrashing a man after tying him to a pole at Mulki police station limits on the outskirts of the city yesterevening The arrested have been identified as Divyesh Devadiga (38), Rajesh and Yogish Kumar alias Yogish. All three are said to be activists of Sangh Parivar from Kerekadu village. The arrested have been booked under various

Mangaluru, Dec 18: In order to ascertain the details of all properties in Mangaluru city, the urban development department has decided to conduct a drone survey, in addition to a door-to-door survey. While the Mangaluru Smart City Limited (MSCL) has already conducted a drone survey in 20 wards of the city corporation, the government has plans to conduct a drone survey through an agency, in the

An expatriate who worked for decades in the Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to give a better life for his family back home in India was rejected by his own wife and children after he died. Dubai-based NRI social worker Ashraf Thamarassery who has repatriated the bodies of thousands of Indians who have died in the Middle East, hit out at the wife and two children of a 62

New Delhi, Dec 18: Hundreds of young people die in India due to dishonour killings merely because they love someone or marry outside their caste or against their family's wishes, Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said, in a speech on "Law and Morality", according to legal news website Bar and Bench. Referring to several cases linked to morality, like the 'breast tax', section 377 that

It was the second time that Lionel Messi was starring for the Argentina men’s national soccer team in the province where he grew up — a sort of coming-home party for him, a maestro who had left this corner of the world when he was 13. But as Argentina played to a 0-0 draw against Colombia in the 2011 match, the stadium reverberated with boos. “He’s a failure,” one fan said outside the match.

Mangaluru, Dec 17: Immoral policing is on the rise in Mangaluru city and its outskirts because Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is encouraging such acts by right wing activists, Congress leader Siddaramaiah alleged on Saturday. Addressing reporters at the airport here, he said eight moral policing incidents have been reported in Dakshina Kannada in the recent past. Condemning such acts by

Mangaluru, Dec 17: Mohammed Shariq, the accused-cum-victim of Mangaluru’s pressure cooker blast case, has been shifted to Bengaluru on Saturday. Confirming this development, city police commissioner N Shashi Kumar said that Shariq was shifted as per the suggestions of the hospital doctors and authorities, at around 6am. Shariq sustained around 45% burn injuries in a low-intensity blast that was

Kambala, the traditional buffalo race event popular in the coastal Karnataka districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kasaragod of Kerala, has embarked on a new season, entertaining tourists and the rural population in the region known as Tulu Nadu. The first kambala (buffalo race in slushy paddy fields) of the season was set in motion at Kakkepadavu in Bantwal taluk of DK district on November 26

Jakarta, Dec 16: The death toll from an earthquake that hit Indonesia's main island Java last month has jumped by hundreds to 602, a local administration official said Friday, after authorities verified unreported casualties across the worst-hit town. The shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit the town of Cianjur in Indonesia's most populous province West Java on November 21, with most of the

Mangaluru, Dec 16: The Mangaluru City Corporation will soon introduce a software that will allow people to apply for birth and death certificates, according to its commissioner Akshy Sridhar. Speaking during an interaction organised by the Dakshina Kannada district working journalists’ association here on Thursday, he said that their aim is to provide easy access to city corporation services for