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Mangaluru, July 22: D Vedavyas Kamath, MLA, Mangaluru City South, has accused the Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara of targeting Hindutva activists through the newly set up anti-communal wing. “A decision of the Mangaluru City Police to extern Hindu activists is a part of revenge politics. Let the government withdraw its decision to extern Bajrang Dal activists,” Kamath said. The setting up

Bengaluru, July 21: JD(S) leader and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday said his party has decided to work together as an Opposition with the BJP, in the interest of the state. Stating that party supremo and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has authorised him to take any final decision regarding the party, he said there is still time for Parliament polls to talk about it

Mangaluru, July 21: The Mangaluru city crime branch (CCB) police on Friday arrested three drug peddlers and seized MDMA and a pistol from their possession. The arrested have been identified as Mohammed Niyas (28) from Farangipete, Nishad (31) from Talapady and Mohammed Razin (24) from Padil, police said. The three were arrested while transporting the drug MDMA in two cars near Pilikuru in

A Varanasi court on Friday, July 21, granted permission for the scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex, located next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple. The petition filed in the case by the Hindu side had sought a direction to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to survey the entire mosque complex. A videographic survey of the Gyanvapi complex in May last year had revealed what the

Bengaluru, July 21: The opposition BJP and the JD(S) boycotted proceedings of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly for the second day on Friday, after the Speaker suspended 10 BJP members for the remainder of the session, for their "indecent and disrespectful" conduct in the House. Today is the last day of the legislature session that began on July 3. BJP legislators staged a sit-in demonstration in

New Delhi, July 21: Indian aviation regulator DGCA has accepted cash-strapped airline Go First's resumption plan, but subject to certain conditions. The DGCA on Friday in a notification said that upon examination, it has accepted the proposed resumption plan dated June 28 subject to outcome of writ petitions pending before the Delhi High Court and NCLT. The DGCA said that Go First can commence

New Delhi, July 21: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Gujarat government in Rahul Gandhi’s Modi surname remark case. SC also issued notice to complainant & Gujarat BJP MLA Purnesh Modi on Gandhi’s plea and posted the matter for hearing on August 4. SC said limited question at this stage is whether the conviction deserves to be suspended. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and P K

After the bone-chilling video Manipur gang-rape went viral on social media forcing the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak about the crime, one of the two victims has revealed that the police themselves took them from their home and handed them over the rapist mob. Even though the incident had taken place on May 4 and the government was fully aware of it the PM condemned the incident only after

Mangaluru, July 20: Police have seized 100 kilograms of chocolates laced with narcotic drugs from two shops in the city, police said on Thursday. The intoxicant chocolates were seized in a raid conducted on Wednesday from a shop owned by one Manohar Shet at Car Street and another shop at Falnir owned by Bechan Sonar of Uttar Pradesh in the city, police said. The operation was launched by the

Bengaluru, July 20: The Central Crime Branch sleuths found four hand grenades from one of the arrested terror suspects, a senior police officer said on Thursday. Jahid Tabrez (25) had kept these grenades at his residence in Kodigehalli, a suburb of Bengaluru, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Dr Sharanappa S D told reporters here. He had allegedly got them from Juned, who is absconding and