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Kanhangad, Jun 15: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader C.K. Padmanabhan has accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of failing to maintain law and order situation in the State. Mr. Vijayan seemed to be acting like a party leader as he failed to condemn the attacks on BJP workers in Kozhikode by CPI(M) workers, Mr. Padmanabhan said, addressing the BJP-sponsored ‘Marxist Akrama Virudha...

A lawmaker from Kerala has announced that he is returning to eating meat, fish and eggs after practising vegetarianism for nearly two decades. There's nothing unusual about a lapsed vegetarian but V T Balram said his decision was prompted by the Central 'Hindu nationalist' BJP government's attempt to seize the people's right to eat what they wanted. “I have been living without eating meat, fish or...

Washington, Jun 13: Humans may be able to detect alien life within the next two decades, according to experts who believe that the hunt for life beyond our planet may soon yield results. In the next few years, researchers will be able to use the James Web Space Telescope and other detection devices to look for biomarkers such as oxygen and methane in the atmospheres of these Earth-like planets...

Kasargod, Jun 13: The incessant rains that has been lashing since the onset of monsoon wrecked havoc damaging at least 10 houses across the district, crippling normal life. According to official sources, the district received 145.30 mm rains over the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. on Monday with a cumulative tally touching to 450.20 mm. The rains and winds damaged four houses – two in Kumbadaje...

London, Jun 12: A teddy bear rose to 100,000 feet into space after it was tied to a helium balloon by a group of school children in the UK. The teddy bear, named as Roffa by the children of King's Rochester Preparatory School field in Boley Hill, Kent, reached the stratosphere, the second major layer of Earth's atmosphere, and travelled around 29 km (18 miles) before the balloon exploded due to...

London, Jun 11: News and sports websites have some of the lowest levels of security adoption, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks, a new study has found. Researchers looked at the security protocols used by the top 500 sites in various industries and online sectors. They found that fewer than 10 per cent of news and sports websites used basic security protocols such as Transport Layer Security...

Jun 11: Nobody likes hitchhikers.. especially when it's a large, unwelcome snake slithering on your vehicle. Ryan McMurphy from Georgia, US was driving on the highway when he noticed the reptile crawling on his car's hood, making its way towards him. The fact that the car was moving didn't stop the cheeky snake from wriggling towards the driver. In a matter of seconds, the snake reached the driver...

Washington, Jun 10: Scientists have developed a new form of ultra strong, lightweight carbon that is elastic and electrically conductive, and may serve a wide variety of applications from aerospace engineering to military armour. Researchers, including those from Carnegie Institution for Science in the US, pressurised and heated a structurally disordered form of carbon called glassy carbon. They...

Mumbai, Jun 9: Internet users in the country will double by 2021 to 829 million users from 373 million users in 2016, driven by digital transformation according to a recent report. This means roughly 59 per cent of the Indian population will use the internet. Also, there would be two billion networked devices in 2021 up from 1.4 billion in 2016. Overall IP traffic is expected to grow 4-fold during...

Udupi, Jun 9: The district administration has set up a 24 x 7 Control Room in the light of monsoon having entered Udupi. The telephone numbers are Udupi Deputy Commissioner's Office: 0820-2574802; Toll-free: 1077; Udupi Tahsildar Office: 0820-2520417; Kundapur Tahsildar Office: 08254-230357; Karkala Tahsildar Office: 08258-230201; Udupi Taluk Panchayat: 0820-2520447; Kundapur Taluk Panchayat...