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The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the eviction drive at Uttarakhand's Haldwani, saying that 50,000 people can’t be uprooted overnight. The apex court issued notice to the Uttarakhand government and India Railways on the pleas challenging Uttarakhand High Court’s decision ordering the State authorities to remove encroachments from land owned by the Railways in Haldwani’s Banbhoolpura area

Kolar, Jan 5: A 16-year-old student of SSLC died of suicide by consuming poison after he was allegedly beaten up by a teacher and a clerk at school. The deceased, Uday Kumar, is a resident of Mushtur village in the taluk and was studying at Adarsha Vidyalaya near Tathikallu. The boy’s parents said he was beaten up at school on Monday. A depressed Uday Kumar went to N Vaddahalli, where he bought

Belagavi, Jan 5: In a tragic incident, six Hindu temple pilgrims lost their lives and 16 others were injured in a road accident on the wee hours of Thursday in Karnataka's Belagavi district. Police have identified the deceased as Hanumavva (25), Deepa (31), Savitha (17), Supreetha (11), Indiravva (24) and Maruthi (42). The injured people have been taken to a nearby hospital with the help of police

Mangaluru, Jan 4: The opposition Congress in Karnataka on Wednesday slammed the state BJP President Nalin Kumar Kateel's remark at a event where he called upon the masses to "focus on love jihad and not on gutter, roads and development". UT Khader, the Congress MLA from Mangaluru constituency, charged that the state's ruling BJP government does not have the capacity, dignity and eligibility to

Bengaluru, Jan 4: Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah on Wednesday called Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai "a puppy before Prime Minister Narendra Modi" for alleged failure to bring Rs 5,495 crore into the State as was recommended by the 15th Finance Commission. Hitting back, Chief Minister Bommai said Siddaramaiah’s statement mirrors his personality. Just like a faithful

New Delhi, Jan 3: Twenty-year-old Anjali was with her friend Nidhi on the scooty while both were returning home before the two-wheeler collided head-on with a Maruti Baleno car in the early hours of January 1. Due to the impact, Nidhi was tossed off the pillion seat while Anjali got stuck beneath the car that dragged her for several kilometres which eventually resulted in her painful death. "After

Mangaluru, Jan 3: Two persons have been arrested by the city police after seizing counterfeit currency notes of Rs 500 denomination amounting to Rs 4.50 lakh. Acting on a tip off, the police arrested the duo while checking vehicles at check posts that were set up on the eve of New Year at strategic locations, said Commissioner of Police N Shashikumar to mediapersons. According to police, two

Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir storms al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds on the day a Palestinian teenager was killed by Israelis during a raid on a refugee camp in the southern part of the West Bank. Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid on a refugee camp in the southern part of the West Bank, less than 24 hours after two Palestinian men lost their lives in another

Actor, choreographer and reality show contestant Gayathri Raghuram, who also was a functionary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took to Twitter Tuesday and announced that she was quitting the party as there was no safety for women under the Tamil Nadu BJP state president K Annamalai. Raghuram, who had been at loggerheads with the party leadership for over a period of time, once served as the

In the early hours of Sunday, January 1, while most were ringing in the new year in Delhi, a woman's body was found abandoned on the side of the road with no clothes. The 20-year-old, teh sole breadwinner of her family, was returning home on a scooter when her vehicle was hit by a car. The occupants of the car in, what seems to be an attempt to flee, drove away with the woman's body stuck in the