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New Delhi, Jan 22: Farmer unions on Friday told the government they want a complete repeal of three contentious farm laws even as the Centre asked them to reconsider its proposal for putting the Acts on hold for 12-18 months, as the two sides met for their 11th round of talks to resolve the nearly-two-month long deadlock. In the last round of meetings held on Wednesday, the government had offered

Mangaluru Jan 22: Police have arrested nine students of a private college in the city for on charge of ragging a junior. The ragging is said to have taken place in the Valachil Campus of the Srinivas Group of Colleges nearly two weeks ago. The arrested have been identified as Jishnu (20), Shrikanta P V (20), Ashwanth (20), Sayanth (22), Abhirath Rajiv (21), Rahul P (21), Jishnu (20), Mukhthar Ali

New Delhi, Jan 22: The government of India on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was not in favour of granting one more opportunity to those civil services aspirants who could not appear in their last attempt in the exams conducted by the UPSC last year due to the pandemic situation. A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar took note of the submissions of Additional Solicitor General S V Raju

Shivamogga, Jan 22: Two people have been detained and a high-level investigation ordered into the explosion in Shivamogga district which left at least six dead, police said on Friday. The detained included a contractor of a stone crushing facility where the blast occurred when a truckload of gelatin sticks went off, police added. Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa expressed grief over the

Mangaluru, Jan 21: A passenger from Duabi was arrested at 800 grams of gold was seized from his possession by the customs sleuths at Mangaluru International Airport today. The gold seized from the passenger was of 24k purity gold valued at Rs 44.2 lakh. The passenger had concealed the gold in his rectum in paste form, said Joannes George, joint commissioner of Customs. George said that Customs

Bengaluru, Jan 21: After a gap of almost a week of swearing-in, Karnataka Chief B S Yeddiyurappa allocated portfolios to new Ministers and changed portfolios of some of the Ministers. Governor Vajubhai Vala, on the advice of the Chief Minister, gave his assent to the list of allocation and reallocation. The following is the list of Cabinet Ministers and their portfolios: B S Yediyurappa: Chief

Washington, Jan 21: In her first remarks to the nation as US Vice President, Kamala Harris has highlighted "American aspiration" and underlined that President Joe Biden has summoned the people to look beyond crisis and aspire to unite. Harris, 56, made history on Wednesday when she was sworn in as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president. The former senator was

Washington, Jan 21: US President Joe Biden has reversed the US process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Hours after being sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Joseph R Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order ceasing a withdrawal process that his predecessor Donald Trump initiated last year, news agency Xinhua reported. “Americans are safer when America is

Bengaluru, Jan 21: Former AIADMK leader Sasikala, who was rushed to the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Bengaluru on Wednesday evening, has been shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after she was diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI). Sources in Sasikala’s camp said in Chennai that two tests – antigen and RT-PCR – conducted on her to check if she is infected with the novel

Bengaluru, Jan 20: The Congress on Wednesday appointed two more working presidents in its Karnataka unit. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed Ramalinga Reddy and Dhruv Narayan as working presidents in the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) with immediate effect, a statement released by party general secretary organisation, KC Venugopal, said. Eshwar Khandre and Saleem Ahmed are