India's national academy of letters, the Sahitya Akademi, on Friday announced the names of 21 winners of its Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 21 recipients of the Yuva Puraskar for this year.
Chikkamagaluru: A tractor-driver was killed on the spot when the tractor he was driving fell into the well after losing control while sowing at Sunnalli in Tarikere on Friday morning.
BJP president Amit Shah today counselled social media savvy workers and supporters of his party's Delhi unit to avoid committing "mistake" of posting fake items online to avoid losing credibility among people, sources said.
Mangaluru: Police conducted a raid at an inn in Pumpwell here on Friday and arrested several persons who were indulged in the prostitution business. Meanwhile, six Bangla girls were rescued in operation.
Mangaluru: Unidentified miscreants on Thursday night have torn down the flex banner that was placed by Youth JDS to greet the newly elected MLC BM Farooq and Chief Minister Kumaraswamy in Valencia.
An Abu Dhabi-based Indian, who lost his hands and legs following an injury at work, has been paid 202,000 dirhams ($54,994) as compensation by his company after the intervention of the Indian embassy here, the media reported.
Koko the gorilla, who appeared on National Geographic magazine cover, could chat, tease and even argue with scientists using more than 1,000 hand signs, has died in California at the age of 46.
Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author Charles Krauthammer, who came to be known as the dean of conservative commentators, has died. He was 68.
Facebook has announced to expand its fact-checking programme to new countries that aims to fight spread of fake news on its platform.
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said populist measures such as loan waivers and free power would not provide lasting solution to the distressed farmers in the country and sought timely credit at affordable interest rates besides giving latest know-how to them to improve farm productivity.
