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Mangalore, Feb 6: Writer, philosopher well-known mathematician Prof. Stephen Vadakkan was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Thursday at YMCA hostel in Mangalore. 61-year-old Vadakkan, who had been reportedly staying at the hostel for a week, had locked his room from inside. It is learnt that the watchman of the hostel sensed a nasty smell emanating from the professor's room. The

New Delhi, Feb 6: The Congress screening committee headed by Union Cabinet Minister Vayalar Ravi has finalised the candidate list for ten constituencies in Karnataka for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in a meeting here on Thursday. Here is the list of candidates selected to contest in the Lok Sabha elections to be held in April. Bangalore South – Nandan Nilekani, Udupi-Chikmagalur – Jayaprakash

New Delhi, Feb 6: Delhi's new government, headed by Arvind Kejriwal, today directed its Anti-Corruption Branch to lodge an FIR in the Rs 90-crore street light project for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in which a panel headed by a former CAG had indicted the then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. After a Cabinet meeting, senior Minister Manish Sisodia said the ACB has been told to conduct a thorough

Mangalore, Feb 6: Jamiyyatul Falah, Mangalore Corporation unit, has installed another dialysis machine at Fr. Muller Hospital in the city as part of its charity works. Presiding over the handing over ceremony of the dialysis machine, Fr Patrick Rodrigues, Director, Fr Mullar Charitable Institutions, said that the number of patients is continuously increasing. He thanked the donors Shekabba Karnere

Puttur, Feb 6: After a few television channels and newspapers on Wednesday reported dubbed a local cleric's advice to Muslim students to refrain from dancing on stages as 'fatwa', the cleric clarified that he had merely advised the students studying in the madrasa not to indulge in Yakshagana and other dance forms. Speaking in the presence of people in a public meeting held in the school on

Srinagar, Feb 6: A Kashmiri youth from a remote village of the Valley has won approval for two of his projects from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in the United States. Asif Ali, who comes from a humble background from a village in Mattan area of south Kashmir district, Anantnag, is studying astronomy at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Kerala, a defence spokesman said here

Mangalore, Feb 6: With more innovative methods of concealing gold to pass undetected through customs cropping up each day, this man took it a step ahead by smuggling gold from Dubai to Kasaragod by swallowing it. Although he managed to get through Customs checking at Mangalore International Airport, he is now struggling in a private hospital here as he is unable to take the metal out from his

Kundapur, Feb 5: The headmaster of an aided higher primary school at Trasi, near Maruvanthe in Kundapur taluk, was taken into custody by the police on Wednesday on charges of sexually harassing a Class 7 student of the school. Gangolli police arrested the 38-year-old headmaster Kirthi Kumar Shetty on the basis of the complaint filed by the girl. According to the complaint filed by the girl in

New Delhi, Feb 6: India will extend visa-on arrival to tourists of all nations barring eight, as it looks to boost tourism, Planning Minister Rajeev Shukla said on Wednesday. "We have decided to extend the visa-on-arrival facility to tourists from 180 nations. It will take 5-6 months for the respective departments to put the required infrastructure in place. We hope to implement this from the next

New Delhi, Feb 6: Signalling the onset of a third front ahead of 2014 general election, 11 political parties, including the Left parties, Samajwadi Party (SP), Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) on Wednesday formed a block in Parliament to take on the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The block that has emerged has vowed not to allow the Congress to “use the