Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg category) defeated Nikhat Zareen in an intense trial bout here on Saturday to make the Indian team for next year's Olympic qualifiers in China.
Mangaluru: TMC leaders Dinesh Trivedi and Nadimul Haque who arrived in the city on Saturday morning met the families of two, Abdul Jaleel and Nousheen who were killed in police firing on December 19 when police fired at protesters who were demonstrating against CAA and NRC in the city.
Attacking the government over the issue of the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said these exercises will be more disastrous than demonetisation in November 2016.
Kumta: Registering its protest against CAA and NRC, Jamaat Ul Muslimeen Kumta led hundreds of people on Friday after prayers and submitted memorandum to the Assistant Commissioner of Kumta expressing its dissent over the implementation of such laws.
Bhatkal: Girls Islamic Organisation (GIO) and Jamat-e-Islami Hind’s Women Wing of Bhatkal unit on Thursday expressed their dissent and anguish over introduction and implementation of bills and acts like Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).
Mangaluru: Two leaders of Trinamool Congress (TMC) arrived in Mangaluru on Saturday morning to handover cheques of compensation to the families of two people who died in police firing in the city on December 19.
Two bodies have been recovered from a garment godown, which was gutted in a fire in the western suburb of Saki Naka on Friday evening, police said on Saturday.
Kota was rocked by death of 12 infants this week, two of them on Friday, in a government hospital here, prompting Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla to urge Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to act "sensitively" on the issue.
Mangaluru: The international baithak (session) of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) was inaugurated by Dharmasthala dharmadhikari (hereditary administrator) D Veerendra Heggade at Sanghaniketan here on Friday.
Aurangabad: The National Register of Citizens exercise and the Citizenship Amendment Act is not just affecting Muslims but also "40 per cent of Hindus", Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar said at a rally here on Friday.