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Bengaluru, Mar 27: The father and brother of the woman allegedly in the CD have blamed the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president D K Shivakumar for the BJP leader Ramesh Jarkiholi's sex CD scandal. Speaking to media persons after giving their statement before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) the duo said that it is a "handy work" of D K Shivakumar. "We have spoken to SIT

Pratapgarh, Mar 27: A 52-year-old man was beaten to death by a few unidentified men after he allegedly took sugarcane from their field, police said on Saturday. Additional superintendent of police Surendra Dwivedi said Dhirendra Bahadur Singh's body was found on a road outside Peethapur village. "Singh had gone to an agriculture field to take sugarcane around 9 when some persons beat him up with

Bengaluru, Mar 27: Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah and Health Minister K Sudhakar sparred on Saturday over the number of Covid-19 deaths in Karnataka. Siddaramaiah demanded a white paper on the Covid-19 situation in the state after he discovered a data mismatch on the deaths caused due to the virus, accusing the government of lying. “According to the Department of Health & Family Welfare

Udupi, Mar 27: With 704 students testing positive for covid-19 so far this cluster, the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) campus has emerged the single driving factor of coronavirus cases in the coastal district of Udupi. The institute was first declared a containment zone on March 17. Udupi’s positivity rate is more than 4%, and 85% of the district’s active cases are from the MIT campus while

Kolkata, Mar 27: Polling began at 7 am on Saturday for the 30 seats in the first phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal amid tight security, officials said. More than 73 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 191 candidates in these seats, most of which are located in the once-Naxal-affected Jungle Mahal region. The elections are being held following

Mangaluru, Mar 26: Haji KS Sayeed Karnire, a noted entrepreneur, philanthropist and community leader from coastal Karnataka, passed away tonight at a private hospital in the city following brief illness. He was 80. Hailing from a humble background in Udupi’s Karnire he went on to lead a huge company. He was the chairman of Expertise Group of Companies. He was also known for his charitable

Bengaluru, Mar 26: The Cubbon Park police in Bengaluru have registered FIR against former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi based on a handwritten complaint sent by the woman, in the alleged sex-for-job scandal, through her advocate Jagadesh Kumar. Speaking to media persons, Jagadesh said that the police have registered the FIR. "Now I am approaching the DG and IGP with respect to providing security to

Dhaka, Mar 26: At least four people were killed in Bangladesh's Chittagong on Friday after police fired rubber bullets at protesters during a demonstration against the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a police official said. "We had to fire teargas and rubber bullets to disperse them as they entered a police station and carried out extensive vandalism," Rafiqul Islam, the police official

Udupi, Mar 21: The coastal district of Udupi today reported 210 new covid-19 cases and 184 of them were from MIT, Manipal which has been declared as a containment zone by the district administration on March 17. With the 184 new positive cases on Sunday, the total number of COVID positive cases from the MIT, Manipal campus has crossed 700. With this the total positive cases in the district mounted

Udupi, Mar 26: In a shocking incident, a young entrepreneur has ended his life by jumping from the third floor of a residential apartment in Udupi today afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Uttam Nayak (30), said to be the owner of a petrol bunk located at Athrady in the coastal district. The police are yet to find out what spurred the young man to resort to the extreme step. It is