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Mangalore, Jan 28: A 19-year-old youth who was riding bike was killed after an oncoming lorry rammed into his bike at Ekkur on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Muhammad Iqbal, son of P C Imthiyaz, a resident of Pilar in Mangalore taluk. The road mishap occurred when he was moving towards Mangalore from Thokkottu. He suffered head injuries following the

Bangalore, Jan 28: An anonymous e-mail threatening to blow up the Kempegowda International Airport Limited (KIAL) here prompted authorities to step up security. "We have received a bomb threat here yesterday," KIAL said in a statement here. An FIR has been lodged with Bangalore Police, it said adding all airlines and partners have been put on alert. The airport has been on high alert since January

Bangalore, Jan 28: Health Minister U T Khader said the government was considering establishing a physiotherapy council in the State to strengthen research and education in physiotherapy. Speaking at the inauguration of the two-day national physiotherapy conference 'Physio Accord 2014', organised by the Karnataka Physiotherapists recently, Mr Khader said there was a need for a separate

Mangalore, Jan 28: Demanding an end to the mining activity that is currently taking place in a quarry close to Bearys Institution of Technology (BIT), Innoli on the outskirts of the city, students of the institution staged a protest near the mining area on Tuesday. During the protest, students grieved that they were unable to concentrate on their studies as the surroundings had become noisy due to

New Delhi, Jan 28: The Supreme Court today refused to relook into its verdict criminalising gay sex in the country. A bench of Justices H L Dattu and S J Mukhopadhaya, in inchamber proceedings, dismissed a bunch of petitions filed by the Centre and gay rights activists against its December 2013 verdict declaring gay sex an offence punishable up to life imprisonment. In a big setback to the LGBT

Bangalore, Jan 28: A 35-year-old Army man was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 14-month-old baby girl at the Para Regimental Centre (PRC) quarters, near Mehkri Circle , on Sunday evening. Dharam Veer Singh, a Naik (corporal) with the PRC located at ML Lines in JC Nagar, was charged with assaulting the daughter of his friend, colleague and neighbour. Confirming the arrest, deputy

Mangalore, Jan 28: The state unit of BJP on Tuesday announced that Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi would arrive in the city and address a mass convention at Nehru Maidan on February 18. Announcing this at a press conference here, BJP state unit vice-president M B Bhanuprakash said that the party had begun making preparations and was gearing up for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The

Bangalore, Jan 28: Former Director-General of Police Shankar M Bidari, who had stints with the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) post- retirement, on Thursday announced floating of a new political party, the Janashakti Paksha. Mr Bidari told presspersons here that he has great visions about developing the State and that is why he had formed his own party on the birth anniversary of Netaji

Mangalore, Jan 28: A Malaysian student was allegedly molested in a Mangalore bound flight on Tuesday morning. In her complaint to Jet Airways authorities, the student said that a man from Punjab had sexually harassed while she was travelling from Bangalore to Mangalore. It is leant that she is a student at a private college in the city. Officials at Mangalore International Airport have taken the

Bangalore, Jan 28: Activities in the Kannada film industry were paralysed today as it observed a bandh led by cine artistes opposing dubbing of other language films and television serials to Kannada. Top Kannada film artistes including Shivarajkumar, Puneetrajkumar, Sudeep, Darshan and others took part in a rally that choked traffic in parts of the city's central business district. The bandh was