Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 30: Private school managements have demanded the resignation of Primary and Secondary Education Minister N. Mahesh after he likened students in private schools to parrots that just repeat what’s taught in class and teachers to Christian nuns who look serious. He was speaking at an event organised by Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to honour select alumni

New Delhi, Sept 30: President Ram Nath Kovind has given assent to a bill which will give legal protection to the good samaritans in Karnataka who help accidents victims with emergency medical care within the 'golden hour', officials said Sunday. With this, Karnataka has become the first state to give legal protection to good samaritans through a legislation amidst the rising incidents of

Madikeri, Sep 30: Picturesque Kodagu nestled in the Western Ghats, known as the favorite tourist destinations in the South India besides being the top coffee producer in the country, has been severely affected in the tourism sector due to natural calamity last month. The coffee land always been a best tourist destination, but after the rain havoc and landslides resulting bad hit for the tourism

Udupi, Sept 30: The state government will take all necessary steps to upgrade the Udupi District Government Hospital and recruit additional staff gradually, promised Shivanand Patil, Minister for Health and Family Welfare. Speaking to media persons after inspecting the hospital, the minister said that better facilities would be made available to the poor patients visiting the hospital. The

Bantwal, Sept 30: The police have managed to arrest two of a group of miscreants who had razed a grotto of Mother Velankani to the ground at Kuntrakala in Kolnadu village under the limits of Vittla police station in Bantwal taluk. The police gave the names of the arrested as Jayaram Naik, 45, a Home Guard, and Monappa Naik, 38. The two were among the group of miscreants from the local bhajana

Chikkaballapura, Sept 30: Forests minister R Shankar garlanded a statue on Friday, he wasn't aware whose it was. The statue was of Sir M Visvesvaraya, one of Karnataka's tallest personalities. The incident took place at Muddenahalli, birthplace of visionary Sir M Visvesvaraya, in Chikkaballapura district. Shankar was at Chikkaballapura for a review meeting and prior to it, he inspected the

Bengaluru, Sept 30: Notwithstanding opposition from a few organisations, Bengaluru police have given consent for an event featuring Bollywood actor Sunny Leone, which is scheduled for November 3 at a private hotel in Nagawara. Police commissioner T Suneel Kumar confirmed the permission comes with certain conditions like ban on liquor sale and prior information about the number of people attending

Newsroom, Sept 29: In two separate cases reported from two different parts of Karnataka, a youth beheaded his friend in Mandya district, while another beheaded his lover in Kolar district. Both murderers walked into their jurisdictional police stations along with the severed heads and confessed to the crime. Pashupathi (24), a resident of Chikka Hebbagilu near Malavalli in Mandya district on

Udupi, Sept 29: A police constable from Udupi, who went to Bengaluru in search of his mission son, was shocked to find that policemen themselves had cremated the 18-year-old boy’s unclaimed body. The deceased is C S Gautam, student of Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, in Bengaluru, and son of Constable Siddappa from Udupi district. Gautam went missing from his hostel on September 21 under

Kasaragod, Sept 29: The Kerala unit of Shiv Sena has called for a state-wide dawn-to-dusk hartal (bandh) on Monday in protest against the Supreme Court's judgement allowing all women to enter Sabarimala. The hartal will be from 6 am to 6 pm. Essential services including hospitals have been given an exemption. According to state representatives of Shiv Sena, the hartal was to urge authorities to