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Ramallah: Israeli troops killed 11 Palestinians on Wednesday in an hourslong raid on the occupied West Bank city of Nablus that also left more than 100 people with gunshot wounds, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The Israeli army said the raid targeted militant suspects “in a hideout apartment” who were accused of shootings in the West Bank. Three of the suspects — two from the Lion’s Den

Bengaluru, Feb 23: BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel has announced that political churning had begun in a big way in the Vokkaliga heartland, with several leaders from there queuing up to join the BJP. After inducting Congress and JD(S) leaders from Kolar, Chikkaballapur and Bengaluru Rural districts here, Kateel said with the emergence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the national level

Eight persons including six Umrah pilgrims from south Indian state of Karnataka died and 20 others were injured on Tuesday night when a bus transporting them to Madinah rammed into a trailer ahead. The tragic incident occurred nearly 150 km away from Madinah. All six who died hailed from Gulbarga region of Karnataka and were travelling to Madinah from Makkah. Among the deceased Shafid Hussain

An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Nepal on Wednesday, February 22, after which tremors were felt in Delhi, National Capital region, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and several parts of north India. While the epicenter of the earthquake was Nepal, the magnitude of the earthquake in Delhi NCR was around 4.4. Nepal's National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Center stated

The Supreme Court on Wednesday, February 22, agreed to examine a plea for hearing by a group of students seeking permission to allow them to appear in annual examinations in Karnataka's pre-university colleges with their head scarf. Advocate Shadan Farasat, appearing on behalf of the students, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud that they had to appear in annual

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won the mayoral election for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) that was held on Wednesday, 22 February. AAP's candidate and first-time councillor Shelly Oberoi defeated BJP's Rekha Gupta by 34 votes to be elected as Delhi’s new mayor. Of the total 266 total votes cast for the mayoral elections, the AAP candidate bagged 150 votes while the BJP nominee, Rekha Gupta

You may come across social media messages requesting for the financial helps and other philanthropic gestures for the victims of recent Turkey - Syria earthquake that claimed thousands of human lives, injured hundreds of thousands and left millions homeless. In countries like Saudi Arabia, wherein government has launched official channel to help the quake victims, any such unauthorized messages

Russia says it has concluded that the United States has been in violation of the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty, accusing Washington of being in non-compliance with its provisions and of trying to undermine Russia's national security. President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday Russia’s suspension of the bilateral nuclear arms control treaty. "There is every reason to state that US

Udupi, Feb 20: The swamijis of various Hindu mutts in the coastal Karnataka on Monday urged BJP national president J P Nadda to take steps for the implementation of uniform civil code. The seers, who met Nadda in Udupi, also wanted the BJP to accord priority to the implementation of the national educational policy. Tulu language should be given suitable recognition, they said. New industrial

Udupi, Feb 20: BJP national president J P Nadda on Monday said his is the only party in the country which has the ideological background, cadre base, and the mass following. He said, almost all the other political parties in the country, including the Congress are family or dynastic parties, while for the BJP, the party itself is a family. "We are the privileged ones that we are karyakartas of the