Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 9: A teenage student-cum-bread winner paid a heavy price for following traffic rules after he stopped his bike at a junction when the signal turned red and was run over by a drunk motorist in southeast Bengaluru. Praveen Kumar(19), a resident of Chamarajpet worked as a data-entry operator to support his family and was a first-year BSc student at Jain Evening College. He was headed

Mangaluru, Oct 9: The passenger train services Bengaluru and Mangaluru will resume on Wednesday (October 10), after a gap of two months. The Bengaluru-Karwar/Kannur-Bengaluru night express will start on Wednesday while the day train will start on Thursday, said SWR CPRO E. Vijaya. Train services were cancelled following multiple landslips induced by torrential rains on Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road

Kalaburagi, Oct 9: In a disturbing incident, a 12-year-old boy hanged himself to death in this city of Karnataka, but police suspect that family matters could have been the cause rather than that he was influenced by the alleged 'blue whale' online challenge, as per reports. Police said on Tuesday that the boy died due to hanging and Raghavendra Police station officials had launched a probe on

Hyderabad, Oct 9: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily today said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) would be part of the grand alliance of opposition parties against the BJP-led NDA in the next year's Lok Sabha polls. He also claimed the Congress will win at least four of the five states where assembly elections will be held over the next two months. The former union

New Delhi, Oct 9: Messaging platform WhatsApp Tuesday said it has set up a system in India that stores payments-related data locally in the country to comply with RBI regulations. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a circular dated April 6, had said all system providers shall ensure that the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them are stored in a system only in India. It had

Newsroom, Oct 9: A new-mother and her paramour from coastal Karnataka have been remanded to judicial custody by a local court in Tamil Nadu for two weeks after their arrest in connection with the coldblooded murder of former’s husband Mohammad Sameer. 35-year-old Sameer, who hailed from Ganjimutt in Mangaluru taluk had gone missing a month after he returned from Saudi Arabia to see his wife

Belagavi, Oct 9: In a case of rash and negligent driving, two sisters were knocked down by a BMW car owned by Goa MLA Glen Ticlo and driven by his son Kyle Ticlo on National Highway 4A in Karnataka’s Belagavi last evening. While the elder sister lost her life, the younger one is battling for life in a hospital. The accident occurred at 6.05pm when the two sisters - Tamreen Khalid Bispi and

Kannur, Oct 9: The gas pipeline-laying works of the Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL) in the Kannur district, which is part of the Kochi-Mangaluru pipeline laying project, are nearing completion. The pipeline-laying activities of GAIL under its Kannur office cover 110 kilometres in two spreads from Neeleswaram in the Kasaragod district to Ayancheri in Kozhikode district. Of this stretch, pipeline

Bengaluru, Oct 9: Pro-Kannada activists staged a protest on Monday calling for a ban on Bollywood actor Sunny Leone's show here on November 3, saying it was against Kannadaculture. The event titled 'Purity and Expression' is being organised by Time Creations at the Manyata Tech Park in the city. Members of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Yuva Sene (KRVYS) burnt an effigy of the former adult film

Bengaluru, Oct 9: The Indian Air Force, the Guardians of the Skies, celebrated its 86th Anniversary on Monday in the city. At the Headquarters Training Command in Bengaluru the celebrations commenced with Air Marshal R K S Bhadauria, Air officer Commanding-in-Chief, Training Command, placing a wreath at the War Memorial in remembrance of those who laid down their lives in the service of the nation