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A 70-year old Catholic priest allegedly molested three minor girls when they visited him to seek blessings at his church office in Chendamangalam in Ernakulam district last month, the police said on Friday.

A Kerala-cadre IAS officer arrested over allegations of corruption related to a Rs 40-crore flyover project that will now be re-built has claimed he "acted on minister's orders"

A 19-year-old college student in Kerala who was expelled from her hostel for refusing to submit her mobile phone between 6 pm to 10 pm has fought her way legally against the hostel rule. The Kerala High Court on Thursday ruled that the hostel rule was unreasonable and unwarranted, ordering authorities to re-admit her in the hostel.

Karnataka government has proposed to create new Vijayanagara district by carving out six taluks from the existing Ballari district.

A first year medical student at the Theni Government Medical College in Tamil Nadu has been booked for alleged impersonation to secure medical admission.

The Karnataka government would come out with a revised information technology policy, and constitute an Innovation Authority, and a vision group for startups, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said today.

Ayesha, who has been married for 21 years, has reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for assistance after she said she got triple talaq by her husband.

Karnataka Congress MLA Laxmi Hebbalkar today appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi in connection with the money laundering case against her senior party colleague DK Shivakumar, officials said.

Against the backdrop of recent pitch by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to make Hindi a language of India's identity, DMK has argued that Tamil was more suited for it.

Karnataka BJP MP A Narayanaswamy, who was allegedly denied entry into a village temple over his caste, said on Wednesday that he would like to educate people and change their mindset.

Suspension of as many as 400 Twitter accounts of the Jana Sena Party (JSP) supporters has evoked protest from JSP chief and popular actor Pawan Kalyan, in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

Six more bodies of those killed in the boat accident in river Godavari in Andhra Pradesh were retrieved on Wednesday, taking the death count to 34, with 13 more people still reported missing.

The Andhra Pradesh government has announced a reward of Rs 8 lakh for the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) team which arrested seven Maoists last year, an official said on Wednesday.

Eighteen-year-old S Supriya died of dengue in Hyderabad on September 13. The teenager was rushed from her home in Nalgonda, 101 km from the Telangana capital, to a hospital in Hyderabad when she started bleeding internally and externally, one of the consequences when dengue turns critical.

No language can be imposed as the concept of a common language was "unfortunately" not possible in the country, superstar Rajinikanth said today, joining the chorus of voices against Home Minister Amit Shah's comments last week about Hindi becoming a unifying language.