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Kasaragod, Apr 21: Miscreants broke into a jewellery outlet at the eastern border hilly township of Bandadukka, some 50 km from here, and escaped with gold and silver ornaments early on Thursday. The police said 546 gm of gold and 4.3 kg of silver ornaments were stolen from the outlet. The thieves also took away Rs. 34,000 kept at the shop. The burglary at Sumangali Jewellery, run by Ashokan, was...

Udupi, Apr 21: The Udupi district police have arrested two more persons in connection with the assault on Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis and her convoy at Kandlur village near Kundapur on April 3. The police gave the names of the persons arrested as Mudasir (30) and Shahid (28). Both the accused are residents of Kandlur. The police said that both were arrested on April 19. With this...

Varanasi, Apr 21: Think twice before becoming administrator of a group on WhatsApp or Facebook as one is liable for prosecution if any rumour or fake news is circulated on it. Social media platforms allow a person to create a group on which members can share views, photographs or videos. Concerns have been raised about social media misuse as fake news, morphed photographs and disturbing videos...

Match No: 17VARSHA CC CHENNAI58/6 8.0 oversVSSKC WARRIORS GOA62/3 5.0 oversSKC WARRIORS GOA, SKCG - Won by 7 wicketsMOM: KRISHNA SATPUTE (SKCG) Match No: 18ALLIANCE BY F LOUNGE83/7 8.0 oversVSPIONEER CRICKETERS UDUPI40/10 8.0 oversALLIANCE BY F LOUNGE, ABFL - Won by 43 runsMOM: SEYLIN DARBAR (ABFL) Match No: 19CITY KINGS KERALA81/7 8.0 oversVSEVERGREEN SPORTS CLUB57/7 8.0 oversCITY KINGS KERALA...

San Jose, Calif, Apr 20: Three days after a man broadcast himself committing murder on Facebook, the social platform was all about playfulness again. At the company's annual developer's conference, held in nondescript conference center in downtown San Jose this week, Facebook launched a slew of products and features that encouraged people to use its service to snap images and video of themselves...

Kasaragod, Apr 19: A newborn boy died owing to a suspected case of jaundice near Manjeswaram on Monday. The newborn son of Vasantha and Renuka, who are from Durgipallam, was born barely five days ago at a hospital in Mangaluru. He was admitted to a private hospital at Uppala after he showed marked uneasiness on Monday. The newborn baby, however, died later in the day at the hospital. Cause of...

Apr 18: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes that Apple, Google and Facebook will be bigger in 2075 and dominate the world.”Apple will be around a long time, like IBM (which was founded in 1911),” USA Today quoted Wozniak as saying on Sunday. “Look at Apple"s cash ($246.1 billion, as of the end of its last fiscal quarter). It can invest in anything. It would be ridiculous to not expect them to...

Mangaluru, Apr 18: City based filmmaker Sandeep Malani has given a musical tribute to the Konkan Kogul Wily Rebimbus in his Hindi film series ‘Maa – Yeh Cinemaa Hai’. Malani has used the famous yesteryear’s romantic Konkani song of the singer, ‘Mog Tuzo Kithlo Ashelon’ and has used it as the title track for his film. The new track has been composed and sung jointly by the present popular young...

Sivaganga Apr 17: An aeronautical engineering student from Delhi was gored to death by a bull and a 40-year-old man died of heart attack at a mega jallikattu event organised at M. Pudhur near Tirupattur in Sivaganga district on Sunday. He was identified as A. Thirunavukarasu (26).

Bengaluru, Apr 17: Four farmers, including a father and son, have committed suicide in different parts of Karnataka. A young farmer and his father committed suicide within a span of a few hours unable to bear the financial loss incurred in agricultural activities at Gulladamane village in Tarikere taluk of Chikkamagaluru district. While 21-year-old Yogish consumed poison around 4 p.m. on Saturday...