Karnataka

Moodbidri, Sep 12: Yet another student of Moodbidri’s prestigious Alva’s College has allegedly committed suicide in her hostel room under mysterious circumstances. The deceased has been identified as Vinutha R (17 or 18 years), daughter of Ramachandra, a native of Bengaluru. She was a second year PUC student n science stream. According to sources she was a bright student and had secured around 98

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 12: With mercury levels rising and abnormal drying up of rivers and wells reported in flood-hit Kerala, the state government has decided to conduct scientific studies on the post-flood phenomenon in the state. Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has directed the State Council for Science, Technology & Environment to carry out studies on the phenomenon after floods across the

Mysuru, Sept 12: The telecommunication network in flood ravaged Kodagu in Karnataka is yet to be set right and the main operator BSNL should restore facility in remote areas as it had remote connectivity in the natural calamity struck district, Kodagu-Mysursu Lok Sabha member Pratap Simha said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters here, he said Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) should fully

Mysuru, Sept 12: Senior JDS leader and Karnataka Minister for Tourism and Sericulture Sa Ra Mahesh on Wednesday warned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over spreading rumours against the coalition government headed by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy. Addressing a press conference here, he said “I was in BJP for 20 years. I know how to do politics. We already have a list of 10 BJP MLAs who are in

Kasaragod, Sept 12: Thanks to the efforts of kind-hearted NRI businessmen in United Arab Emirates, as many as nine gulf job aspirants who were duped by a fake recruitment agent have finally secured jobs in Dubai. The nine job seekers, all from Kerala’s Kasaragod district, had fallen for fake offers that promised them roles as 'sales professionals' at a supermarket in Muhaisnah by the fake agent

Udupi, Sept 12: The temple town which had witnessed clashes between Congress and BJP workers during Bharat Bandh on September 10, has now returned to normalcy. The police have registered a total of eight cases in connection with the clashes during the bandh. Three cases were booked by the police, one case had been filed by a shopkeeper and another case had been registered by a woman. The rest were

Bengaluru, Sept 12: A 31-year-old hardware engineer succumbed to injuries on Tuesday nearly a week after an employee at a cyber cafe allegedly stabbed him with a screwdriver on his head following a heated argument. The victim, Guru Prashanth, was a resident of Banashankari III Stage. He had gone to the cyber cafe last Thursday night to take some printouts. Police have arrested the cybercafé

Bengaluru, Sept 12: It is no secret that Congress leader and water resources minister D K Shivakumar is a chief ministerial aspirant. And this seems to be the focal point of the raging controversy involving the Jarkiholi brothersand Congress MLA Laxmi Hebbalkar in Belagavi, that is causing worry to the Kumaraswamy government. The Jarkiholis have told the Congress leadership to direct Shivakumar to

Sept 12: A quack is said to have performed post mortem of 36 dead bodies at government community health centres of Gadag and Chitradurga districts. Vikas, a native of Mudhol in Bagalkot district, has confessed before the police that he had performed the post mortems. He has been performing the post mortems for the past two and a half years in Lakshmeshwar of Gadag district, Bannikoppa in

Bengaluru, Sept 12: The state BJP on Tuesday demanded that the government should immediately appoint a Hindu priest at the controversial cave shrine of Bababudangiri in Chikkamagaluru district. Addressing a press conference here, BJP state general secretary and Chikkamagaluru MLA C T Ravi said the party would launch an agitation if the priest is not appointed at Guru Dattatreya Bababudan Swami