Mangaluru: The dead body of Former higher education minister, senior political leader BA Mohidin (81) who passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday morning will leave for Mangaluru through a special escort vehicle at 11 am.

Two soldiers were injured on Tuesday in an ongoing gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, police said.

Two BSF troopers were killed in an IED blast triggered by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Monday evening, police said.

Fearing the disrepute to the family, father and grandmother together allegedly killed their daughter at Maravanji village in Channagiri taluk in the district. The incident came to light of late.

All the 10 members of the family were returning towards their home from Palakkad in Kerala after completing the house warming ceremony. They were about to reach their home in a few minutes. But a lorry came on their way and took the lives of five members of the family. Five members of the family died when the lorry collided their vehicle at Uppala on Monday night.

Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader said that Mangaluru-Bengaluru national highway Shiradi ghat stretch was repaired and it was decided to invite Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and former union minister Oscar Fernandes for the inauguration of the road.

The NIA Special Court of the city on Monday convicted three accused who admitted to their involvement in bomb blast near Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru in 2010, to 7 year imprisonment.

BJP President Amit Shah on Monday said his party will give Tamil Nadu a corruption-free government and also how the BJP-led Central government has given about Rs 510,000 crore of projects to the state.