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Hyderabad, Oct 9: As India plans to give a robust push to promote use of electric vehicles, a top scientist says hydrogen-based system would be the right choice in the long run given its potential to become fuelof the next generation. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had come out with a demonstration vehicle using hydrogen itself as fuel, G Madhavan Nair, the former chairman of the...

Oct 9: Four workers were asphyxiated while cleaning a sump in a house, belonging to Ramakrishnappa, at Dinnenahalli in the taluk on Sunday. According to police, the victims have been identified as Nagappa (65), Peddanna (39), Narayanappa (35) and Janardhan (34), all residents of the village. The first three were choked to death in the sump while Janardhan died en route to a hospital. Enraged...

Bengaluru, Oct 8: A 40-year-old man was mauled to death by a white tiger at Bannerghatta Biological Park on Saturday evening. The victim Anji lived in the nearby Hakki Pikki Colony, and had taken up the post of caretaker on temporary basis only a week ago. The enclosure that is home to three tigers has three gates, one of which opens into the safari area. Every morning, this gate is opened for...

Pekanbaru, Oct 5: A giant python attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, before hungry villagers chopped up the reptile and ate it, a police chief said today. Security guard Robert Nababan crossed paths with the giant creature while patrolling an oil palm plantation in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island on Saturday. "The python was 7.8 metres long (25.6 feet), it...

Mumbai, Oct 4: Global IT security firm Quick Heal's Enterprise Security brand Seqrite has discovered an advertisement on DarkNet forum that claims to have access to data of over 6,000 Indian businesses that include Internet Service Providers (ISPs), some of the key government organisations, banks and enterprises. Seqrite Cyber Intelligence Labs, along with its partner seQtree InfoServices, tracked...

New Delhi, Oct 4: Paytm Payments Bank recorded a loss of Rs 30.7 crore between August 2016 and March 31, 2017, according to the documents it submitted to the corporate affairs ministry, reported news agency on Wednesday. The company, which formally began operations in May this year, was one of the 11 that were granted in-principle approval by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up limited...

Kasaragod, Oct 4: Abdul Nafi, a Class X student from Badiadukka, drowned in the Canoli Canal in Thrissur on Monday. Nafi, son of Muhammed of Mookampara near Badiadukka, was studying at R.M. Vocational Higher Secondary School at Perinjanam in Thrissur. He drowned in the flooded canal while having a bath with two of his friends around 4.30 p.m. on Monday. Nafi slipped and fell when he was washing...

Kasaragod, Oct 4: Buses carrying Bharatiya Janata Party workers to Payyanur to attend a public meeting there in connection with the Janaraksha Yatra led by State president Kummanam Rajasekharan were allegedly attacked by CPI(M) workers on Tuesday morning. No BJP workers were injured in the incident at Pallikkare, near Neeleswaram. Traffic disrupted BJP district president K. Sreekanth rushed to the...

Kasaragod, Oct 3: The Kerala State Housing Board is actively planning to launch a special housing scheme for non-resident Keralites (NoRKs), Housing Minister E. Chandrasekharan has said. The government had also come out with a package to provide decent accommodation for the five-lakh-odd homeless in the State, he said, inaugurating the World Habitat Day observance. The government was now mulling...

Kasargod, Oct 3: At least three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers were injured in a clash involving Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers at Neeleswaram late Monday night. The incident occurred on the Neeleswaram market road at 9.30 p.m. after flags and other decorations erected in the town by BJP loyalists were allegedly vandalised by CPI(M) workers. The clash that followed resulted in...