Mangaluru: Well-known businessman, pioneer of the Beary movement, poet, writer, translator, thinker Abdul Raheem (65), passed away after a brief illness on Tuesday morning at his residence in Mangaluru. He is survived by wife, two sons, four brothers, including Umar Teekay of Bengaluru.

Mumbai: Acute shortage of pilots along with NOTAMs at some airports forced IndiGo to cancel around 130 flights for Friday, a source said.

Mumbai, Feb 14: The Bombay High Court Thursday directed the Maharashtra government and the Centre to respond to a public interest litigation seeking children be prohibited from playing the mobile game PUBG at school.

Sindhanur/Hospte (Karna): A day after top opposition leaders agreed to work together and consider forging a pre-poll front, BJP president Amit Shah Thursday asked the proposed 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) to spell out the name of its prime ministerial candidate.

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police had shared an intelligence input, uploaded on a private twitter account a couple of days back, with all security agencies in which Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed had threatened to carry out the suicide attack on security forces, officials said Thursday.

Mangaluru: Around 40 CRPF soldiers have been killed in a worst ever suicide terror strike in last two decades, on their convoy at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.

Udupi: With the arrest of two more accused including main accused Chandrashekar Reddy (48), the total number of accused arrested in the double murder case of Chikkanakere of Kota Manur village has increased to 15.

Bengaluru: Talking tough, Congress legislature party leader Siddaramaiah Thursday said his petition seeking disqualification of four disgruntled party MLAs was pending with the Speaker, who is the competent authority to take action under the anti-defection law.