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Chikkaballapura, Sept 30: Forests minister R Shankar garlanded a statue on Friday, he wasn't aware whose it was. The statue was of Sir M Visvesvaraya, one of Karnataka's tallest personalities. The incident took place at Muddenahalli, birthplace of visionary Sir M Visvesvaraya, in Chikkaballapura district. Shankar was at Chikkaballapura for a review meeting and prior to it, he inspected the

Bengaluru, Sept 30: Notwithstanding opposition from a few organisations, Bengaluru police have given consent for an event featuring Bollywood actor Sunny Leone, which is scheduled for November 3 at a private hotel in Nagawara. Police commissioner T Suneel Kumar confirmed the permission comes with certain conditions like ban on liquor sale and prior information about the number of people attending

Newsroom, Sept 29: In two separate cases reported from two different parts of Karnataka, a youth beheaded his friend in Mandya district, while another beheaded his lover in Kolar district. Both murderers walked into their jurisdictional police stations along with the severed heads and confessed to the crime. Pashupathi (24), a resident of Chikka Hebbagilu near Malavalli in Mandya district on

Udupi, Sept 29: A police constable from Udupi, who went to Bengaluru in search of his mission son, was shocked to find that policemen themselves had cremated the 18-year-old boy’s unclaimed body. The deceased is C S Gautam, student of Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, in Bengaluru, and son of Constable Siddappa from Udupi district. Gautam went missing from his hostel on September 21 under

Kasaragod, Sept 29: The Kerala unit of Shiv Sena has called for a state-wide dawn-to-dusk hartal (bandh) on Monday in protest against the Supreme Court's judgement allowing all women to enter Sabarimala. The hartal will be from 6 am to 6 pm. Essential services including hospitals have been given an exemption. According to state representatives of Shiv Sena, the hartal was to urge authorities to

Bengaluru, Sept 29: Police have busted a 6 member Inter-State gang that had cheated about 200 students to the tune of about Rs 25 crore on the promise of getting them Medical seats in foreign Universities and absconded without returning the money collected have been arrested by the police. Madivala Police said in a release here on Saturday, that the arrested were identified as Suman, Dilip

Bengaluru, Sept 29: Traffic police in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka, have landed in trouble for allegedly kicking a triple riding scooter after chasing it. While a pillion rider lost his life, two others are battling for life. The incident took place near Hennur on Tuesday. The rider lost his balance and collided with a mini-goods vehicle when a Banaswadi traffic cop kicked the two-wheeler

Bengaluru, Sept 29: The police have arrested woman and her two male associates for allegedly cheating a city based politician of Rs 9.7 lakh after befriending him on social media. On September 25, L Srinivas, a resident of Nagarabhavi, who claimed to be a JD(S) leader, filed a complaint with Jnanabharathi police, saying an unidentified woman had befriended him on Facebook and cheated him of the

Bengaluru, Sept 29: The Chief Minister of Karnataka has warned that officials will be jailed if they fail to spend funds set aside for development of SCs/STs under the Karnataka Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub Plan (Planning, Allocation and Utilisation of Financial Resources) Act 2013. “This year onwards, we are implementing the punishment clause in the Act, and I have told officials that

Islamabad, Sept 29: On what was one of the bloodiest days since protests began on March 30, six Palestinians, including two teenagers, were killed by Israel forces along the Gaza border, Pakistan Daily Dawn reported. One of the boys, Nasser Mosabih, aged 12, was shot dead along the frontier east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, Dawn quoted ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra as telling AFP. Fourteen