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New Delhi, Sept 6: Schoolteachers from Karnataka have won as many as 16 national awards for their outstanding contribution to education. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu gave away the awards at a Teachers’ Day function here on Tuesday. The award carries a silver medal, a certificate and a cheque for Rs 50,000. Rathnamma B M got the national award for her contribution to increasing the enrollment in...

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday recollected fond memories of his school teacher who persuaded him to rejoin school after he had dropped out. He was speaking at a programme organised by the department of public instruction on the occasion of Teacher’s Day. “If Rajappa master had not got me readmitted to school, I would not have been standing before you as the chief...

Madikeri, Sept 6: K K Pavana, wife of DySP M K Ganapathi, on Tuesday said that the family has got justice to some extent with the Supreme Court ordering a CBI probe into her husband’s suicide. “The family had demanded a CBI probe. But, we did not get enough support in the beginning. I will stand by my father-in-law M K Kushalappa and brother-in-law M K Machaiah in this fight,” she said. Pavana...

Bengaluru, Aug 25: C.M. Ibrahim of the Congress has been elected unopposed in the byelection to the Karnataka Legislative Council. As Opposition parties did not field candidates, Mr. Ibrahim was elected unopposed, said Assembly in-charge secretary, S. Murthy. The byelection was necessitated following the death of Vimala Gowda, BJP MLC. The newly elected member’s tenure will end in June 2018. Mr...

London, Aug 23: The Guinness world record for the largest samosa has been smashed by a 153 kg gigantic version of the popular Indian tea-time snack prepared at a mosque here. The enormous snack was made by a 12-member team of Muslim Aid volunteers at the East London Mosque yesterday. After Guinness World Records officials approved their feat, the team distributed the gigantic samosa, that took...

New Delhi, Aug 21: German luxury carmaker Mercedes- Benz today launched AMG GT R in India with prices starting at Rs 2.23 crore (ex-showroom). The company also introduced AMG GT Roadster at a starting price of Rs 2.19 crore. "Bringing the fastest cars from the fastest family in the world is proof of the increasing importance of India as a market and its potential for performance sports cars,"...

London, Aug 20: A 12-year-old Indian-origin boy, believed to be having an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has been crowned as the UK's 'Child Genius' in a popular television quiz competition. Rahul Doshi, who a few days a back became an overnight sensation after answering all questions correctly in some of the earlier rounds, won the Channel 4 show 'Child Genius' by beating his...

Jaipur, Aug 20: A family court in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district has granted a divorce plea filed by a woman on the premise that there was no separate room for the couple and no toilet in the house, holding that it amounted to "cruelty" to her. While passing the judgement yesterday, family court judge Rajendra Kumar Sharma said that toilet at home was necessary for the family and going to defecate...

Madrid, Aug 18: Soon after the Barcelona attack that left 13 people dead, Facebook and Google activated their safety check features to let users in the vicinity inform their friends that they were safe and get nearby support. Facebook created a page, titled "The attack in Barcelona, Spain" which users used to "check in as safe", The Telegraph reported on Thursday. Recently launched SOS alert...

Kasaragod, Aug 18: The police here seized nearly 22 kg of ganja valued at Rs. 5 lakh and arrested its 30-year-old carrier, Abubacker Siddique, from Kunjathur, near Manjeswar, on Thursday. Initially, the police team led by Kumbla Circle Inspector V.V. Manoj had seized 250 grams of ganja from Abubacker, who resides near Hosabettu beach. Detailed interrogation of the youth led the police team to 10...