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Chennai, Feb 10: Yuvan Shankar Raja, the son of legendary music director Illayaraaja, is all set to convert to Islam. The music composer himself has announced the news. He took to his micro-blogging page on Sunday to announce his decision. While dismissing rumours about him getting married for the third time, the composer also tweeted that he is now following Islam. "Yes, I follow Islam and I'm

London, Feb 10: Death of the comma? One of the most commonly used elements of written English - the humble comma - could be abolished as a punctuation mark without doing much damage to the language, a US academic has suggested. Professor John McWhorter, an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, believes that removing commas from most modern US texts would

Mangalore, Feb 10: Sundar, a watchman of Souza Arcade inaugurated the new office premises of the Dakshina Kannada district unit of Aam Aadmi Party at Hampankatta in the city on Sunday. According to a press release, the party will get a boost in its activities through streamlined functioning from its new premises which has been donated to the party by a well-wisher. The active members of the party

Mangalore, Feb 10: Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister and Minister for Forest, ecology environment B Ramanath Rai has called upon the Banjara community people to give priority to education in order to improve their socio- economic condition. He said unless the members of the Banjara community got their children, especially girls, educated it would be difficult for them to achieve

Mangalore, Feb 10: A youth was feared drowned while trying to swim at Kolachikambala, in Mulki on Sunday. Jignesh (18), a student at St Anns College in Mulky had ventured into the river for swimming along his friends Mahindra Rana, Viral, Nithesh, Prakash and Sumar. All of them were from Gujarat. Jignesh was studying first year of B.Sc. Efforts were underway late on Sunday evening to trace the

Bhubaneshwar, Feb 10: The death toll in the Hirakud Dam boat tragedy in Odisha's Sambalpur district rose to 28 on Monday with the recovery of 17 more bodies, even as rescue operations continued for the second day to trace another five persons. "Personnel of the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) and fire brigade fished out 11 bodies by the Sunday evening, while 17 more were recovered on

New Delhi, Feb 10: Operations at public-sector banks are likely to be affected as employee unions have decided to go on a two-day nationwide strike from Monday to press for wage revision. During the conciliation meeting held on February 6 before the Chief Labour Commissioner, the IBA did not come up with any improvement in the wage offer of 10 per cent hike in pay package, said United Forum of

Mangalore, Feb 9: Two days after Pajawar mutt pontiff Visweswara Theertha Swamiji's failed bid to enter Ullal amidst prohibitory orders, police have prevented Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel from entering the sensitive town. The development comes when Ullal was returning to normalcy after three days of tensed atmosphere. The town had witnessed sporadic communal clashes, vandalism in recent days

Mangalore, Feb 9: In a shocking incident, a three-year-old toddler has allegedly been raped by a youth in Bengre area of Mangalore. The victim's father has filed the complaint with jurisdictional Panambur police station. The complainant has accused that one of his neighbours, raped the girl. The police have arrested a youth identified as Irfan (aged around 20), a resident of Kasaba Bengre in

New Delhi, Feb 9: A nude or semi-nude picture of a woman cannot be called obscene per se unless it is designed to excite sexual passion or reveal an overt sexual desire, the Supreme Court has held. Quashing a case against a newspaper for publishing a nude photo of German tennis legend Boris Becker with his fiancee in 1993, a bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri said only those sex