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  9 Of Family Killed As Car Catches Fire After Collision With Bus In Karnataka

  A total of 10 people, five children among them, were travelling in the car at the time of the accident. Four occupants, two of them children, were burnt alive on the spot, police said.

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  Teen Killed By Brother Over Interfaith Relationship, Mother Dies Trying To Saving Her

  A 19-year-old woman in Karnataka has died after being pushed into a lake allegedly by her brother after a fight over her interfaith relationship, police said today. The woman's 43-year-old mother, who jumped into the lake to save her, is also dead.

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  NMAM Institute of Technology Placement 2022: Highest Package At Rs 53 Lakh, Over 1,200 Job Offers Made

  The NMAM Institute of Technology campus placement for 2022 batch has recorded over 200 companies making more than 1200 job offers.

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  125-Year-Old Hospital, Among The Best In Country, Ruined In Kerala Floods

  The Kerala floods, which took over 300 lives and rendered several lakhs homeless, have also destriyed the 125-year-old Chalakudy Taluk Hospital in Thrissur district. The 140-bed hospital, seen as one of the best in the country, has suffered a loss of over Rs 10 crore. About 3.5 lakh people in the area are dependent on this facility.

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  In a Kerala Hospital: Queues, No Doctors and Scant Treatment

  Rita Johnson, in her 60s, is bed-ridden and needs specialised treatment. Though she is admitted in a local government hospital, it is her husband who is seen feeding her through a tube.

• 70 students hospitalised due to food poisoning

  Seventy students of a school in Idukki district have been hospitalised due to suspected food poisoning allegedly after they had food at the hostel. Medical College Hospital sources said the students, studying in the fifth to ninth standard, complained of stomach ache, vomiting and diarrhoea after allegedly having dinner at the hostel on Sunday.

• New Light House to be powered by solar units

  Fishermen in 15 hamlets in the coastal area between Kalpakkam and Marakkanam would have the benefit of a new Light House powered by solar units, which would be able to light up an area of 20 to 30 nautical miles, from next year.

• HC moved against ban orders in and around Kudankulam

  A PIL petition has been filed in the Madras High Court challenging the prohibitory orders clamped in about 50 villages in Radhapuram taluk in Tirunelveli District as part of measures taken for commissioning the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. The petition contended that the depriving the the people of their fundamental right of free movement in th...

• Eight women of a family drown in Belgaum

  Eight women belonging to a family, including three below the age of 14, drowned after their bullock cart fell into a river canal in the pilgrimage town of Savadatti in north Karnataka, police said. Three other women were rescued and rushed to hospital, while the cart rider swam ashore safely and helped in the rescue mission, police said.

• Teacher falls to death from 3rd floor

  A 40-year-old government school teacher allegedly died after he fell from the 3rd floor of a private hospital here in the wee hours of Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Laksmaiah, a native of Dasanapura of Nelamangala Taluk who was working a government school teacher at Tattekere.

• S Bangarappa's last rites in Sorab on Tuesday

  Former Karnataka chief minister S Bangarappa passed away in a private hospital in Bangalore early on Monday.

• Nine former Devadasis switch to agriculture

  The Hyderabad-Karnataka region is all set to witness history as nine former Devadasis at Narona village of Aland taluk who quit flesh trade more than one-and-a-half decades ago decided to switch to agriculture.

• Student Federation of India march turns violent

  Police burst teargas shells and waved lathis to chase away activists of Students Federation of India, who took out a march to the Kannayanoor taluk office here protesting against the state government's self-financing professional Colleges admission policy.The march allegedly turned violent as some SFI activists tried to enter the Taluk office remov...

• Big gains for BJP in Karnataka Panchayat polls

  The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka on Tuesday took a major lead in the Zilla and Taluk elections. The BJP bagged 12 of the 30 Zilla Panchayats while the opposition Congress and JD(S) captured four each. The verdict for the remaining 10 such bodies was fractured."The results of Zilla and Taluk Panchayat elections have vindicated pe...

• Karnataka Panchayat election results today, big gains for BJP

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken the lead in elections to the zilla and taluk panchayats in Karnataka. Chief Minister Yeddyurappa, who has been facing serious corruption allegations has managed to put his party in the lead. The BJP has won the majority of the seats in the Shimoga Zila panchayat in the CM's constituency. The ...