Karnataka

Kalburagi, Oct 6: The Karnataka Police on Friday arrested 51-year-old Basavaraj, a physical education teacher in the Government Girls High School in Kalburagi, for sexually abusing and molesting female students. The teacher has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences(POSCO) Act and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The Child Welfare

Bantwal, Oct 5: The police have arrested two more persons for allegedly razing the grotto of Mother Velankani in Kuntrakala in Kolnadu village of Bantwal taluk. The police have identified the arrested as Vasant Naik, 37, and Yogeesh Naik, 32. On September 27, a group of persons allegedly razed the grotto on a government land and then installed an idol of Koragajja Daiva. The police removed the

Kannur, Oct 5: Kannur International Airport, the second greenfield airport set up under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, near Mattannur in Kannur district would be inaugurated on December 9. The date for inauguration was fixed as the Director General of Civil Aviation has accorded commercial flight operation licence to the airport, a release from the office of Chief Minister Pinarayi

Bengaluru, Oct 5: As all their efforts to topple the chief minister H D Kumaraswamy-led Congress-JD(S) coalition of Karnataka proved futile, the BJP leaders in the state appear to be jittery ahead of the visit of their national supremo Amit Shah. Besides, the State BJP leadership’s two decisions - not fielding candidates for the recent elections to the Legislative Council and of abruptly staying

Mangaluru, Oct 5: JCI Mangaluru, in association with Lions Club, Mangaluru, Lioness Club, Mangaluru and Leo Club, Mangaluru, conferred ‘Outstanding Young Person Award’ at Lions Seva Mandir, Mallikatte recently. M R Poovamma (Sports), Bhavan PG (Painting), Praveen Udupa (Science and Technology), Shabarinathan (Business), Dayanand Kukkaje (Journalism), Tauseef Ahmed (Animal Care), Praveen Kalamadni

Bengaluru, Oct 5: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths today raided on two Karnataka Government officers including Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), Chief Development Officer T R Swamy and N G Gowdaiah, Engineer Officer-5, Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA). According to a ACB Press release the raids were conducted at 8 places simultenously including offices, residences and

Udupi, Oct 5: The Moodlakatte Institute of Technology, Kundapur, will be establishing a Technical Business Incubator with the financial support of Karnataka Council for Technological Upgradation, a joint venture of the Union and State governments. Addressing reporters here on Thursday, Abdul Kareem, Director (Research and Development) at the institute, said the objective of the incubator was to

Mangaluru, Oct 5: An 18-year-old girl who had been suffering from multiple ailments for nearly one decade due to endosulfan poisoning, breathed her last yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Divya G, a resident of Padubettu near Nelyadi, in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. Divya’s father Vaman Naik is a daily wage labourer, and mother Pushpavathi is a beedi roller. In spite

Bengaluru, Oct 5: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Karnataka has not taken kindly to students making pleas to gods on answer sheets. With quite a few examineeswriting ‘Om’, a sacred symbol in Hinduism, or the names of gods before attempting to answer questions, the university, in a circular to all affiliated colleges, has called it an examination malpractice. The first among the eight

Bengaluru, Oct 5: Deputy Mayor of Bengaluru, Ramila Umashankar passed away on Friday due to a cardiac arrest. She was 44. Umashankar, a leader of Janata Dal (Secular) was also a corporator from Kaveripura ward of Karnataka. She was elected as the Deputy Mayor of Bengaluru on September 28, 2018. Karnataka Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy expressed shock over Umashankar's demise. The Chief Minister