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Kasaragod, Feb 26: A 48-year-old man was killed after he was hit by an ambulance at Mogral-Puthur here in the early hours of Sunday. The accident occurred around 1.20 a.m. as Aithappa Poojari, a casual labourer, was hit by the ambulance that was returning from a Mangaluru hospital after dropping a patient. Mr. Poojari, a resident of Mogral-Puthur village, was going back to his home after attending...

Kolkata, Feb 22: Popular author Chetan Bhagat feels scoring high percentage in board examinations is not enough, students should also know how to market themselves. The author was speaking at a session on the 'Impact of Digital Co-creation in Business Revolution' organised by an engineering college here yesterday. "Can the guy who scores good marks but cannot communicate get a job?" the 'Five...

Islamabad, Feb 21: Imran dated Bushra when I was his wife, said Reham Khan, the second wife of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former Pakistan cricketer. Imran Khan, 65, tied the knot with Bushra Maneka in a private ceremony in Lahore on Sunday. In an interview with The Times, Reham alleged that her ex-husband knew Bushra for the last three years and continued to see her even...

Customs officials at Kempegowda International Airport have seized gold worth Rs. 95 lakh this week. According to a press release from the Additional Commissioner of Customs, officials foiled three attempts to smuggle gold. The first incident was on Sunday night, when gold weighing 199 gm and worth Rs. 60 lakh was recovered from a flight that had arrived from Singapore. The gold was wrapped in...

Mangaluru, Feb 20: Sixth Additional District and Sessions Judge D.T. Puttarangaswamy on Monday sentenced Satisha, a resident of Moodbidri, to 55 days of rigorous imprisonment on finding him guilty of cheating a woman. According to the charge-sheet filed by Moodbidri police, Satisha, a married man, had sex with a 25-year-old woman after promising her that he would marry her. When she realised...

Apple has released a new iOS 11.2.6 update that includes a fix for the bug that is causing iPhones and apps like Facebook and WhatsApp to crash when a Telugu single character is received via iMessage. The bug was discovered last week and involves sending the character in Telugu to devices that crashes an iPhone and makes apps like Messages, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp inaccessible. "Apple...

Belagavi, Feb 19: The sleuths attached to city crime investigation branch have seized three kg of gold biscuits worth around Rs 95 lakh by arresting a man in the city. The arrested has been identified as Mohan Prabhakar Devkar of Mumbai. Cash totalling to Rs 15,000 was also seized from him. The police have taken up further investigation. Malmaruti police have registered a case.

New Delhi, Feb 18: Gurmehar Kaur, who became the focal point of a nationalism debate last year, says her answer to repeated questions about how she survived the vitriol and social media trial and from where she gathered the strength to move on is her new book. "Small Acts of Freedom" is the story of three generations of single women in a family who have faced the world on their own terms. It has...

Pune, Feb 15: A Pune-based woman's world came to an unexpected standstill when her son succumbed to cancer two years ago in Germany. But her joy knows no bounds now. She became a grandmother to twins born via surrogacy methods using her son's cryo-preserved semen. Doctors at Pune's Sahyadri Hospital performed the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure and fused Prathamesh Patil's semen, extracted...

Kasaragod, Feb 13: Sheelavathi, 45, an endosulfan victim at Perla near Badiadukka, died at her residence on Sunday. Daughter of the late Shankar Rai and Revathi from Padre locality, she had been bed-ridden for long. She had undergone treatment at various hospitals and was on the official list of the endosulfan victims.