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Bengaluru, Jul 28: Bharath Rajdhan, Chief Instructor at the Rajdhan's Way of Traditional Martial Arts, Mangaluru has been appointed Vice President of the Samyuktha Karnataka Kreeda Mathu Karate Association, Bengaluru. He is also the Chief Instructor at the Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate Do International Association of Middle East and South Asia, a statement issued by Dathatreya Reddy, President of the...

Kasaragod, Jul 28: A State government employee died and his close friend sustained critical injuries after the duo fell from second storey of a private lodge here late on Wednesday. T.K. Giridhar, 40, a native of Paatyam in Kannur and working with the Education Department office here, sustained head injuries as he fell from over a height of 7 metres. He died while being shifted to a Mangaluru...

Jul 26: Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday announced it was rolling out a free version of its antivirus software across the globe, a product launch that comes amid mounting suspicion in the United States that the cyber firm is vulnerable to Russian government influence. Kaspersky Free was immediately available in the United States, Canada, and several Asia Pacific countries and would launch in...

New Delhi, Jul 24: Addressing a public gathering on a cleanliness drive in Jamhore village of the Aurangabad district in Bihar, Kanwal Tanuj the District Magistrate stoked a controversy after saying that those men who cannot build a toilet for their wives, should sell them. "Due to lack of toilets, women get raped and harassed. It only costs Rs. 12,000 for the construction of the toilet. Is 12,000...

Los Angeles, Jul 22: Humans have created 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastics since early 1950s, and most of it now resides in landfills or the natural environment, a study has found. Researchers, including those from the University of Georgia (UGA) in the US, found that by 2015, humans had generated 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastics, 6.3 billion tonnes of which had already become waste. Of...

Washington, Jul 22: Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed an ultra-thin device that can power your smartphone, fitness tracker and other gadgets using human movements such as walking and waving. Based on battery technology and made from layers of black phosphorus that are only a few atoms thick, the energy harvesting system generates small amounts of electricity when it is...

Bengaluru, Jul 22: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday directed the suspension of Bengaluru South tahsildar S M Shivakumar and ordered issue of show-cause notice to Bengaluru regional commissioner M V Jayanthi for obstructing the construction of the state government’s flagship programme Indira Canteen at one of the locations in the city. Siddaramaiah was reviewing the Indira Canteen project that...

London, Jul 19: Scientists in the UK have discovered a new mechanism that could help slow down the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and neurological decline associated with ageing, according to a research published today. The UK's University of Sheffield scientists identified that tuning up the activity pathway of the DNA's natural repair toolkit – which normally helps to...

New Delhi, Jul 20: The warring parties over interconnect usage charges are digging in their heels. Established operators such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone on Thursday contended that telecom infrastructure in rural areas largely depends on revenue from incoming calls, and lowering or removal of such charges will hamper services. The new entrant, Reliance Jio, brushed aside the logic, claiming that...

Washington, Jul 18: Language learning begins in the womb, say scientists who have found that babies can distinguish between someone speaking to them in English and Japanese a month before they are born. Previous studies have demonstrated this by measuring changes in babies' behaviour - for example, by measuring whether babies change the rate of sucking on a pacifier when the speech changes from...