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Bengaluru, July 10: Karnataka police have arrested the man who made a hoax bomb call to a mosque in communally sensitive Shivajinagar locality in Bengaluru, police said on Monday. The accused has been identified as 37-year-old Syed Mohammad Anwar from Maharashtra. According to police, the accused was raising donations for madrassas from the mosques. After collecting the donation from the Azam

Bengaluru, July 8: Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Minister K H Muniyappa on Saturday said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will launch the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) under the Anna Bhagya scheme on Monday evening. The minister also said that in 15 days the entire money would be transferred into the account of the beneficiaries. "On July 10 at 5 pm, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief

Gwalior, July 8: Amid an uproar over the Sidhi urination incident in Madhya Pradesh, a video has now surfaced showing a helpless Muslim youth licking the soles of hooligan's feet after being forced to do so in a moving vehicle in Gwalior, following which two persons have been arrested, police said. The video has gone viral on social media. The victim and the accused are residents of Dabra town in

Bengaluru, July 8: The High Court of Karnataka has stayed the probe into the model code of conduct violation case registered against BJP national president J P Nadda during the assembly elections in the state. Nadda was accused of making a speech during a party campaign at Harapanahalli town in Vijayanagara in May 2023, in which he allegedly lured voters. The criminal petition filed by Nadda

Pune, July 8: DRDO scientist Pradeep Kurulkar was attracted to the Pakistani Intelligence Operative, who used the alias 'Zara Dasgupta', and chatted with her about Indian missile systems among other classified defence projects, the charge sheet has said. The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra police filed the charge sheet against Kurulkar, who was the director of one of the labs of the

Malappuram: Four members of a family have been found dead at their rented house in the centre of Malappuram city in Kerala. Sabeesh (37), his wife Sheena (38) and their children Harigovind (6) and Sreevardhan (2) were found dead in their house at Maitri Nagar, Munduparamba. Sabeesh, son of Babu of Karattukunummel, Kuttikattoor in Kozhikode, was a manager of a private financial institution. His

Kolkata, July 8: Several people were killed in election-related violence in West Bengal as voting was underway on Saturday for the three-tier panchayat polls in the state, officials said. The polling started at 7 am in 73,887 seats in the rural areas of the state with 5.67 crore people deciding the fate of around 2.06 lakh candidates, they said. BJP polling agent Madhab Biswas was allegedly killed

New Delhi, July 7: The BJP on Friday appointed Union ministers Pralhad Joshi and Bhupender Yadav the party's in-charge for assembly polls in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh respectively, stepping up its campaigns for key state polls before the Lok Sabha contest in 2024. Former Union minister Prakash Javadekar and another senior party leader Om Prakash Mathur was made poll in-charge for Telangana and

The launch of social media app Threads as a competitor to Twitter is a game-changer. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, launched the new platform yesterday, ahead of schedule. Threads was welcomed almost immediately – especially by hordes of Twitter users that have watched in dismay as their beloved platform crumbles in the hands of Elon Musk. In less than 24 hours, Threads attracted

Bengaluru, July 7: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who presented his 14th Budget today said that new Congress government in Karnataka expects the Agricultural Produce Market Committees to work in the best interest of the farmers and ensure a fair price for their produce. “Our government in its earlier tenure took several measures to strengthen the APMCs and introduced online market system, the first