Naxal attack: Key meeting to be held in Blore today Home Minister M P Prakash informed the Assembly that he would hold a meeting of legislators from four naxal-affected districts, at Vidhana Soudha, in the city, on Tuesday, to discuss the measures to be taken to tackle the naxal problem.
Security stepped up in Agumbe In the wake of Naxals looting 4 houses at Gubbiga-Tallurangadi, Additional Director General of Police Shankar Bidari and Commandant of Anti Naxal Squad A M Prasad who is also IG of West Range visited Agumbe, on Monday.
PDF demands probe into police encounter Peoples Democratic Forum (PDF) has demanded a judicial inquiry into the alleged police encounter near Menasinahadya in which a number of adivasis were killed.
Heavy rains halt salvage work of ship in Mlore As heavy rains continued to lash Mangalore on Monday, the salvage experts and divers who had arrived in Mangalore to retrieve M V Den Den could not do anything but to take rest, according to sources in the New Mangalore Port.
Scouts and Guides have big dreams Pooja Shree aspires to become a police officer, Priyadarshini a photographer, Jeevan an air scout and Yamini a software engineer but apart from this, they have a bigger and common ambition in life: participating in the developmental process of the society.
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