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Mumbai, May 20: Mumbai-based jeweller, who created a hijack scare onboard a Jet Airways flight in October last year, has become the first person to be put on the National No Fly List, eight months after it was unveiled. Incidentally, he was also the first to be booked under the stringent Anti-Hijacking Act which had replaced the vintage law of 1982. Birju Kishore Salla (37) was arrested in October...

Udupi, May 18: The boat service from Malpe tourist jetty and Malpe beach to St. Mary’s Island, a popular tourist destination, has been stopped with immediate effect till September 15 as is done annually. A press release issued by the Malpe Development Committee here on Thursday said that consequent to the annual monsoon ban, no tourist boats or water sports boats will operate from Malpe to St...

Kasaragod, May 18: The district has registered 11 confirmed and 61 suspected dengue fever cases in the last two days. The administration, seeking active involvement from local bodies, has launched a vigorous campaign to check the spread of the deadly fever epidemic in vulnerable eastern hilly hamlets of the district. It would take at least a week to assess the outcome of the ongoing campaign to...

London, May 16: Radio astronomers from around the world have been glued to their sets for decades to listen to that one sound from somewhere in space which would prove that an alien life, sufficiently advanced, exists somewhere in our universe. Well, reliable evidence is yet to come to our notice, but, according to an international team of scientists, they could be living in a parallel universe...

Bengaluru, May 14: Renowned theoretical physicist Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as ECG Sudarshan, passed away in Texas on Monday. He was recommended for Nobel Prize in Physics for a record nine times. He was a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Born in Kottayam district of Kerala, he studied at the CMS College Kottayam, Madras Christian College and Tata...

Oslo, May 12: The spread of humans around the world from Africa thousands of years ago wiped out big mammals in a shrinking trend that could make the cow the biggest mammal on Earth in a few centuries` time, a scientific study said on Thursday. The spread of hominims - early humans and relatives such as Neanderthals - from Africa coincided with the extinction of mammals such as the mammoths, sabre...

Washington, May 3: India's Aadhaar technology does not pose any privacy issue and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the World Bank to take this approach to other countries as it is worth emulating, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said. The 62-year-old multi-billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist said Nandan Nilekani, Infosys founder who is considered as the chief architect of...

Beijing, May 2: A 25-year-old Chinese man, who felt "stuffy" and opened the emergency exit of a plane to get some fresh air has been detained and fined, a media report said on Tuesday. The man, identified only by his surname Chen, was waiting to disembark the plane at Mianyang airport in the southwestern province of Sichuan when he decided he could do with some fresh air. Unfortunately for him...

Puttur, Apr 30: Aysha Girls Pre University College at Athoor, Uppinangady has achieved 100 percent result in both Arts and Commerce streams in the second PUC examination results that were declared today. Commerce toppers in the college: Sahada (567); Fahima (565); Mainaz (524); Rameeza (516) 30 students had appeared for the exams. Among 18 Commerce students, 4 secured distinction and 14 secured...

Puttur: A man, arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl, reportedly injured himself while in police custody in Puttur Town on Wednesday. Shamsher Khan, 50, had been accused of sexually assaulting the girl for over a year. In her complaint to the Puttur Town police, the girl accused Khan of giving her sedatives before sexually assaulting her. She accused him of showing her...