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Bengaluru, Jan 25: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officers have caught a Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) while accepting bribe for issuing ownership certificate for a site allotted under Ashraya scheme to a villager. According to a ACB release here on Friday, Tumkur District, Chelur Gram Panchayat PDO R Siddeshwar had demanded Rs 60,000 bribe and was caught while accepting Rs 50,000 from the...

Panaji, Jan 25: The Goa government has decided to charge fines between Rs 2,000 and Rs 10,000 from people for drinking and cooking in the open, state Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar said Thursday. The Tourist Trade Act will be amended suitably during the Goa Assembly session beginning on January 29 for this purpose, he informed. "People found creating nuisance like drinking in public or cooking...

Kendrapara, Jan 23: Indian Coast Guard personnel have seized a trawler carrying carcasses of around 250 endangered sharks during a mid-sea crackdown on illegal fishing in prohibited Gahirmatha marine sanctuary. Seven crew members, all hailing from Andhra Pradesh, of the intercepted vessel were arrested and handed over to the forest department Tuesday, a Coast Guard official said. The carcasses...

Mysuru, Jan 23: Though the state government had declared a one-day holiday on Tuesday for all educational institutions in the state as a mark of respect to Shivakumara Swami, Demonstration School in Mysuru, a constituent unit of Regional Institute of Educationin Mysuru, was open. This did not go down well with several parents. Yagnamurthy Sreekanth, principal of Regional Institute of Education...

San Francisco, Jan 22: Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform WhatsApp has announced it was restricting how many times any given message can be forwarded in an effort to boost privacy and security. In July, WhatsApp rolled out safeguards in India that included limiting the number of users to whom a message can be forwarded. It also ran newspaper ads to raise awareness about fake news. That...

Hyderabad, Jan 22: Former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya, MP extended his heartfelt condolences on the demise of Siddaganga seer. In a message, Mr Dattatreya on Monday said Sri Shiva Kumara Swami Head Pontiff (Seer) of five centuries old Siddaganga Mutt in Tumakuru attained Sivaikyam on Monday. Sri Shiva Kumara Swami ji is known as walking god who headed a society that...

Tokyo, Jan 21: "World's oldest man" Masazo Nonaka, who was born just two years after the Wright brothers launched humanity's first powered flight, died on Sunday aged 113, Japanese media said. Nonaka was born in July 1905, according to Guinness World Records — just months before Albert Einstein published his special theory of relativity. Guinness officially recognised Nonaka as the oldest living...

Washington, Jan 21: Tracking windshield wiper activity can provide faster, more accurate rainfall data than radar and rain gauge systems currently in place, potentially helping predict and prevent flooding, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Michigan in the US said that a community armed with that real-time data could move more quickly to prevent flash-flooding or sewage...

Bengaluru, Jan 21: Congress legislator K Ganesh, who had allegedly assaulted the Vijayanagara MLA, Anand Singh, at a Resort here yesterday, has denied the media reports that he was involved in a brawl. The Congress MLAs, who had remained indoors entire day on Sunday following the reports of an attack on Anand Singh, who has been admitted to a private hospital, clarified on Monday that “the media...

Udupi, Jan 21: District president of Janata Dal (Secular) Yogish Shetty has said that the BJP was trying to dislodge the Congress-Janata Dal(S) coalition government through illegal and unconstitutional methods. He was speaking at a dharna organised by the Janata Dal(S) near Bhujanga Park here. Mr. Shetty said that the BJP was lusting for power and was trying “Operation Kamala” in the State once...