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Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 27: A total of 149 Indians serving prison terms for minor and financial offences in Sharjah will be released following the amnesty declared here by the Emirate's visiting ruler Sultan Bin Mohammed Al- Quasimi. The announcement came in response to a request by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking the release of Keralites who had completed three years of their jail

Mangaluru, Sept 27: The Dakshina Kannada district administration has initiated externment proceedings against two persons, whose street-fighting had snowballed into a communal tension in Bantwal taluk in June. Acting on a report from superintendent of police C H Sudheer Kumar Reddy, the deputy commissioner and district magistrate K G Jagadeesha has issued notices to Rathnakar Shetty and Ibrahim

Sept, 27: Investigators believe a Russian couple knocked their victims out with sedatives, then skinned them alive. Afterward, police say, they ate parts of their victims, froze the remains or packed them in jars filled with saline solution. At times, the couple tried to turn soldiers at the military academy where they worked into unwitting cannibals, slipping "canned human meat" into their food

Washington, Sept 27: The World Bank has warned of a learning crisis in global education particularly in low and middle-income countries like India, underlining that schooling without learning is not just a wasted development opportunity, but also a great injustice to children worldwide. The Bank in its latest report on Tuesday noted that millions of young students in these countries face the

Varanasi, Sept 27: Taking moral responsibility for the incident of alleged molestation of a female student and violence at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Chief Proctor ON Singh submitted his resignation to Vice-Chancellor Dr Girish Chandra Tripathi on Tuesday. His resignation was accepted by the university authorities and a new chief proctor will be appointed soon, news agency ANI said. As per a

Jeddah, Sept 27: In a historic decision, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Tuesday issued orders to grant driving licenses to women in the Kingdom. The royal order will come into force from Shawwal 10, 1439, corresponding to June 24, 2018, the Saudi Press Agency reported. In a royal decree, the monarch directed Minister of Interior Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Saud Bin Naif to constitute a

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 26: Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, supreme council member and ruler of Sharjah, arrived to a warm reception here on Sunday on a five-day visit to Kerala. Mr. Al-Qasimi, who arrived in a private jet at 3.15 p.m. at the invitation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, was greeted with Thalappoli and Pancharimelam at the technical area of Thiruvananthapuram international

Srinagar, Sept 26: Army on Tuesday killed Kashmir’s longest surviving militant Qayoom Najar while he was trying to infiltrate into the Valley from Lachipora area of Uri sector in Baramulla district along Line of Control (LoC). 43-year-old Najar, head of Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI), a breakaway group of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, was one of the longest surviving Kashmiri militant commanders and caried Rs 10

New Delhi, Sept 26: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi's appeal to provide shelter to the “illegal” Rohingya Muslim refugees residing in India, hasn't gone down well with the government, with Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir saying, national interest should come first. Gandhi, in an opinion piece published in a Hindi daily, called for not deporting Rohingyas from India

Mangaluru, Sep 26: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rahim Uchil has waged a legal battle against Congress leader and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai for his alleged controversial remarks against Yuva Brigade leader Chakravarti Sulibele, who is known for his communally provocative speeches and anti-Muslim rants. Uchil, who is lobbying hard for BJP’s ticket from Mangaluru