Karnataka

Kasaragod, Nov 1: Proving that age was no barrier to learning, a 96-year-old woman has secured high marks in a literacy examination held in Kerala. Karthyayani Amma, the oldest candidate who appeared for the "Aksharalaksham" programme of the state-run Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority, scored 98 marks out of 100. A native of Cheppad village of Haripad in Alappuzha district, the nonagenarian

Mangaluru, Nov 1: Customs employees at the Manglauru International Airport have once again come under the scanner after the involvement of two staffers in gold smuggling racket came to light recently. Ashwin N V and Srikanth, both Customs hawaldars were recently arrested by the sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on charges of helping the gold smugglers at the airport. It is

Bengaluru, Nov 1: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday appealed to the people that they should not heed to voices that are bent upon dividing the state on regional basis. In his address on the occasion of 63rd Kannada Rajyotsava, the chief minister recounted the efforts and struggle by various leaders to reunite the state which had got divided during the British rule and urged the people to

Mysuru, Nov 1: The Karnataka police have managed to bust a notorious gang of highway dacoits who used target carts on Mysuru-Kerala highway and arrested nine of them. The operation was carried out by the Hunsur police in Mysuru district. There was 12 members in the gang of dacoits and three of them managed to escape. The arrested are Regan, 38, Vinesh Kumar, 39, Mohan Das, 39, and Satish Kumar, 39

Bengaluru, Nov 1: In a major embarrassment to the BJP ahead of the bypolls, its Ramanagara candidate, L Chandrashekar has withdrawn from the race declaring that he will rejoin the Congress. Addressing the media in Bengaluru on Thursday, Chandrashekar claimed that he was forced to take such a decision as he found no support or cooperation from leaders in the BJP. The party lacked unity, he said. He

Mangaluru, Nov 1: A native of Kasaragod, who was residing in Goa, has been arrested by the sleuths of the Mangaluru City Crime Branch in connection with a cocaine seizure case registered recently. The arrested person has been identified as Ajmal Pullikal Ahmed, a resident of Candolim in Goa, who originally hails from Kasaragod. Police said five people who were selling cocaine in the city were

Madikeri, Nov 1: The Bharatiya Janata Party has suffered a blow in Kodagu district as it failed to get a majority in any of the three town panchayats (TPs) – Somwarpet, Virajpet and Kushalnagar – that went to the polls recently. The results of the elections that were announced on Wednesday came as a rude shock to the BJP, which had managed a clean sweep in Kodagu in the assembly polls. In

Bengaluru, Nov 1: Former prime minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo has urged the workers of his party and Congress to stay united for a “greater cause”. Admitting that there were differences between the cadres of JD(S) and Congress in Mandya parliamentary seat for which byelection is being held, Deve Gowda said workers of both parties should realise the coalition had been forged to keep BJP

Udupi, Nov 1: A report on the bathymetry survey for identification of sandbars in the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) areas in the Seeta, the Swarna and the Papanashini rivers in Udupi and Brahmavar taluks is expected reach the district administration on November 4. Priyanka Mary Francis, Deputy Commissioner, said here on Wednesday that in the previously identified nine sand bars in the CRZ areas in

Belthangady, Nov 1: The Bharatiya Janata Party has wrested the power from the Congress by winning the election to Belthangady Town Panchayat for the first time. The election to the 11-member urban local body had been held on October 28 and the results were declared on Wednesday. The BJP won seven seats leaving four seats to the Congress. There was tough fight between the two parties as the