Karnataka

Mangalore, Mar 13: Three persons including a nine-month baby have gone missing from Kavoor Bolvu Gudde since March 10. According to Franki John Rodrigues, the complainant, the missing are Dhanalakshmi alias Deepa (21), Komala alias Jyothi (24) and her son Vasudeva (9 months). All the three were distant relative of Rodrigues' wife and were staying with them since 2012. Dhanalakshmi was 4.6 feet

Bangalore, Mar 12: A day after its rout in Karnataka municipal polls, the ruling BJP blamed the debacle on infighting and vowed corrective measures to ensure the party wins the assembly polls due in two months. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders met here Tuesday to discuss the reasons for the dismal show in the polls to 207 urban local bodies held March 7. The results were announced

Mangalore, Mar 12: An autistic child has every right to pursue education in a 'normal' school and denial of this opportunity by school authorities amounts to violation of child rights, said Dr. Rameela Shekhar, Member, Juvenile Justice Board, DK. Ms. Shekhar revealed this during an interaction meet on education and RTE related issues held at SDM College, Mangalore on Monday, when Alwyn D'Souza

Mangalore, Mar 12: Although Tulu originally had a script, due to strong Kannada hegemony which we have accepted over the years, Tulu has remained as a dialect, said former professor and chairman of Department of Studies in History at Mangalore University Dr B Surendra Rao. Delivering the keynote address following the inauguration of a two-day national seminar on 'Dakshina Kannada Then and Now'

Bangalore, Mar 12: After playing spoilsport to the ruling BJP in the recently concluded polls to Urban Local Bodies in Karnataka, KJP President B S Yeddyurappa today set his eyes on storming the Assembly in upcoming elections. "My first target was to finish the BJP in ULB elections because they had ditched me. People have taught them a lesson. My next target is to storm assembly in the upcoming

Bangalore, Mar 12: Hundreds of Catholic Christians belonging to 17 Konkani Catholics organizations staged demonstration in front of Rev. Kittel's Statue, on M G Road in Bangalore, demanding the government to name union government's proposed university for minorities in Srirangapatna after Reverend Ferdinand Kittel. A German by birth, Kittel was a priest with the Basel Mission and is responsible

Mangalore, Mar 12: A newly elected Corporator of Mangalore City Corporation met with a road accident while travelling along with his supporters on JM Road at Alape, here. BJP candidate Vijaya Kumar, who was elected represent 50th ward (Alape South) of MCC, and two of his supporters sustained injuries when the jeep in which they were travelling turned turtle. The incident took place when he was

Bangalore, Mar 12: A senior scientist working with a petro-chemical major in the City was arrested on Monday for killing his wife. A schoolteacher at Elements Montessori on Aralur Road, Mahalakshmi, 37, a native of Mumbai, died after Dharmesh, 38, slapped her during an argument over a trivial matter, in their flat at Mantri Flora Apartments, in Iblur Junction, HSR Layout, on Sunday night

Kasargod, Mar 12: An indefinite hunger strike launched by the Endosulfan Peeditha Janakeeya Munnai (EPJM) seeking effective and swift relief and rehabilitation for hundreds of endosulfan victims and their families entered fourth week on Tuesday. Environmentalist A. Mohankumar has been fasting at the strike venue for eight days. The doctors who examined him on Monday morning said his vital

Udupi, Mar 12: Thanking the voters of coastal district, Udupi Block Congress Committee President Pramod Madhwaraj has said that his party would form a Manifesto Implementation Committee to fulfill its pre poll promises. Addressing presspersons after the victory of the Congress in Udupi CMC, Mr. Madhwaraj said that the party would Congress would give priority to implementing promises made in its