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Dubai, Jan 16: A 28-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to death by a court here for strangulating his compatriot to death and dumping his body in the garbage in a box. According to the court records, the accused, identified only by his initials NS, had loaned the victim 8,500 dirhams (around USD 2300) to be paid in three instalments. On May 22 last year, the two men met at the defendant's

New Delhi, Jan 16: Ahead of the crucial AICC session on Friday, Union Minister Oscar Fernandes on Thursday said Rahul Gandhi is Congress candidate for prime ministership even as suspense remains on whether the party will formally annoint him as PM nominee for the Lok Sabha polls. “Whether he (Rahul) accepts or not, he is our Prime Ministerial candidate. He will certainly accept (the responsibility

Mangalore, Jan 16: Highland Islamic Forum (HIF) will be organizing 'A day with orphans' at Highland Education and Cultural centre, Vas lane, Mangalore on January 19. Convener of HIF medical cell, Kamaruddin briefing presspersons here on Thursday said that forum has been organising a day for giving medical care for orphans every year. The orphans from orphanages in Dakshina Kannada district will be

Mangalore, Jan 16: Strongly criticizing the state government for the delay in arresting RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat for his provocative speech at Gurupura, members of Dakshina Kannada unit of Social Democratic Party of India's (SDPI) said that it was unfortunate Congress workers carried out protest when their own government was in power. Addressing the media persons on Wednesday, SDPI

Kasargod, Jan 16: Two years after triggering major controversy over wearing Army uniform during the 'Nabidina' rally in the district, the police registered suo-motu cases against 45 persons for taking out rally in the olive green attire on Tuesday. While the police in Kasaragod registered cases against 20 persons for wearing uniforms or tokens resembling to that of military persons, their

Gulbarga, Jan 16: Sporadic violence broke out in Gulbarga city and other places on Wednesday after the news of the death of daring sub-inspector (SI) Mallikarjun Bande in Hyderabad spread in the morning. The district administration immediately promulgated prohibitory orders in Gulbarga city, Aland and Jewargi towns under Section 144 CrPC for 24 hours till 1 pm on Thursday. Doctors at Yashoda

Udaipur/Jaipur, Jan 16: Situation in southern Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district was tense on Wednesday after three people were killed and seven injured in communal clashes in Kotdi and Moheda villages late on Tuesday night. According to the district police, curfew was imposed in Kotdi and Arnod after clash broke out between some RSS activists and members of the Muslim community. Ten shops were set

Tarikere (Chikmagalur dist), Jan 16: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Wednesday that there was no proposal before the State or Central government to ban the sale of arecanut. He would not allow the ban, even if such a proposal were to come before him, the chief minister said. He was speaking to reporters after launching several development works in the town.Siddaramaiah said the BJP was trying

Mangalore, Jan 16: In a fresh case of hate crime, a group of miscreants allegedly belonging to a Hindutva outfit brutally assaulted two engineering students -a boy and a girl- at Surathkal beach on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday. It is learnt that the reason behind the attack was that the miscreants could not tolerate a Hindu girl walking with a Muslim boy on the sea shores. The assailants

New Delhi, Jan 15: Alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, on Wednesday complained in a court here that there is threat to his life as Tihar Jail officials are treating them "even worse than animals". Bhatkal and his close aide Asadullah Akhtar has moved an application before District Judge I.S. Mehta at Patiala House Court here requesting him to issue direction to the director