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Bhopal, Oct 13: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leaders, including its chief Mohan Bhagwat, has also paid tributes to slain journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who had led a crusade against the Hindutva till her last breath and called RSS the biggest enemy of the country. At its three day long Akhil Bhartiya Karyakari Mandal baithak or the “Diwali Baithak,” which began in Bhopal from Thursday, the RSS...

Frankfurt am Main, Oct 13: God cannot survive science, "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown said today, putting his faith in technological advances to connect people in new ways that would eventually scrap the need for religion. "Historically, no god has survived science. Gods evolved," the best-selling American novelist said at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where he unveiled his newest book, "Origin"...

Bengaluru, Oct 13: Upa Lokayukta Justice Subhash B Adi has directed the Transport department to submit a report on total tax dues in respect of vehicles in the state. The report was sought in the wake of an enquiry which revealed that Ramanagaram alone has motor vehicle tax arrears to the tune of Rs 2 crore since 2005. A complaint was filed with the Lokayukta alleging that tax on several vehicles...

Hyderabad, Oct 9: As India plans to give a robust push to promote use of electric vehicles, a top scientist says hydrogen-based system would be the right choice in the long run given its potential to become fuelof the next generation. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had come out with a demonstration vehicle using hydrogen itself as fuel, G Madhavan Nair, the former chairman of the...

Oct 9: Four workers were asphyxiated while cleaning a sump in a house, belonging to Ramakrishnappa, at Dinnenahalli in the taluk on Sunday. According to police, the victims have been identified as Nagappa (65), Peddanna (39), Narayanappa (35) and Janardhan (34), all residents of the village. The first three were choked to death in the sump while Janardhan died en route to a hospital. Enraged...

Bengaluru, Oct 8: A 40-year-old man was mauled to death by a white tiger at Bannerghatta Biological Park on Saturday evening. The victim Anji lived in the nearby Hakki Pikki Colony, and had taken up the post of caretaker on temporary basis only a week ago. The enclosure that is home to three tigers has three gates, one of which opens into the safari area. Every morning, this gate is opened for...

Pekanbaru, Oct 5: A giant python attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, before hungry villagers chopped up the reptile and ate it, a police chief said today. Security guard Robert Nababan crossed paths with the giant creature while patrolling an oil palm plantation in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island on Saturday. "The python was 7.8 metres long (25.6 feet), it...

Mumbai, Oct 4: Global IT security firm Quick Heal's Enterprise Security brand Seqrite has discovered an advertisement on DarkNet forum that claims to have access to data of over 6,000 Indian businesses that include Internet Service Providers (ISPs), some of the key government organisations, banks and enterprises. Seqrite Cyber Intelligence Labs, along with its partner seQtree InfoServices, tracked...

New Delhi, Oct 4: Paytm Payments Bank recorded a loss of Rs 30.7 crore between August 2016 and March 31, 2017, according to the documents it submitted to the corporate affairs ministry, reported news agency on Wednesday. The company, which formally began operations in May this year, was one of the 11 that were granted in-principle approval by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up limited...

Kasaragod, Oct 4: Abdul Nafi, a Class X student from Badiadukka, drowned in the Canoli Canal in Thrissur on Monday. Nafi, son of Muhammed of Mookampara near Badiadukka, was studying at R.M. Vocational Higher Secondary School at Perinjanam in Thrissur. He drowned in the flooded canal while having a bath with two of his friends around 4.30 p.m. on Monday. Nafi slipped and fell when he was washing...