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Mangaluru, Jan 20: Sri Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji, the chief pontiff of Pejawar Mutt, who was on a trip to Mantralayam in Andhra Pradesh suffered a back sprain due to a speed breaker on road while travelling in a car. According to sources, the 86-year-old seer was on the way back from Mantralayam to Hyderabad on Friday when the incident took place. When the car reached Nandyal in Kurnool district

Mangaluru, Jan 20: Within six months of his posting, Superintendent of Police, Dakshina Kannada, C.H. Sudheer Kumar Reddy, was transferred to Belagavi district. B.R. Ravikanthe Gowda, Superintendent of Police, Belagavi, would replace Mr. Reddy, according to a notification from the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Bengaluru, issued on Saturday. Mr. Reddy’s transfer came as a

Bengaluru, Jan 20: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that he had declined to accept the honorary doctorate proposed by the University of Mysore. In a tongue in cheek reply to media queries, Siddaramaiah said, "I do not hold a PhD. Hence I said no to the doctorate." M S S Kumar, a Syndicate member of the UoM on Friday had said that he had proposed Siddaramaiah's name for the honorary

Mysuru, Jan 20: Five seers/mutt heads on Saturday wrote letters, with their blood, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urging them to ban cow slaughter in consonance with the Article 48 of Constitution and take necessary steps to protect and preserve native (deshi) breeds. The seers wrote the letter in blood, during a programme organised by Goh Parivar at the Agrahara

Mandya, Jan 20: In a fresh push to bestow Bharat Ratna on Siddaganaga seer Shivakumara Swamiji, former chief minister and BJP leader S M Krishna has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking India's highest civilian honour for the centenarian seer. In the letter, a copy of which is available with DH, Krishna has stated, "The 111-year-old Swamiji is rendering service to the society for the

Tumakuru, Jan 20: Leopards and bears straying into the villages and towns on the forest fringes are nothing unusual in Tumakuru district. But a leopard went further by barging into the house of Ranganath on Ist Cross, Jayanagar East, in Tumakuru on Saturday morning. The leopard strayed into the house of Ranganath, a retired KSRTC employee, when the Forest department personnel were conducting

Dubai, Jan 20: Tweets from Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj helped an Indian woman expedite a visit visa to visit her critical husband admitted at a hospital in Dubai, UAE. Diplomatic missions, prompted by a tweet from the Swaraj, intervened to help process a UAE visit visa for Garima (Twitter handle: @agg_garim) over the weekend. Garima's tweets addressed at the minister revealed

Mangaluru, Jan 20: Though the crime rate in Mangaluru is very less compared to other prominent cities of India, the coastal Karnataka’s port city is being defamed by certain vested interests through mass media and social media for reasons better known to themselves, said T R Suresh, the Commissioner of Mangaluru City Police. Speaking at an interaction programme organized by the Bearys Chamber of

Bengaluru, Jan 20: Unidentified thieves decamped with 19 kg of gold biscuits of a passenger on board the Kurla Express, heading towards Bengaluru. Mumbai-based businessman Rijoy, who works with a private gold company, was on his way to the city carrying gold biscuits in a suitcase. Around midnight when he was asleep with the bag next to him, his bag was stolen, he told the police. The victim

Experts have officially confirmed that as many as 102 unfired rockets found in an open well at a farmhouse in Nagara village, Hosanagar taluk in Shivamogga district belonged to the era of Tipu Sultan, the visionary South Indian ruler. The rockets used by the glorious Mysuru kingdom during the Anglo-Mysuru wars, especially in the last two of them during the reign of Tipu Sultan, are considered the