Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 31: Moderate polling is underway for the election to 102 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) across Karnataka, a poll official said on Friday. Polling started at 7 a.m. amid tight security, the official added. About 40,000 security personnel have been deployed in cities and towns to maintain law and order across the state where voting will continue till 5 p.m. Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs

Bengaluru, Aug 31: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, has detained a man from Ganeshpura in Belagavi on the charge of selling the bike used in the crime. Sagar Lakhe, who owns a nursery in Ganeshpura, was arrested on Wednesday based on information provided by Bharat Kurne, a hotelier, who was arrested on August 8 in the Gauri murder case

Puttur, Aug 31: Local residents allegedly thrashed a teacher and confined him to a classroom at a government high school near Eshwaramangala in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada for sending obscene messages to one of his students. The accused, Manjunath, who teaches English, was later arrested by the police and booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The police

Bengaluru, Aug 31: Bengaluru Police Commissioner T Suneel Kumar felicitated a 70-year-old auto-rickshaw driver for returning the wallet of the owner of an information technology firm who had taken a ride in his three-wheeler on Wednesday. Sudheer B M hailed the auto-rickshaw from his home in Yelahanka New Town to Jayanagar and forgot the wallet. But he didn't realise the folly until the driver

When the teenage Kashmiri girl Iram Habib expressed her wish to join the aviation sector after Class XII, no one was ready to support her. But, she did not give up on her dreams. Now, the 30-year-old has become the only woman pilot from Srinagar to fly a commercial aircraft. She will join a private airline next month. It took her six years to convince her parents to allow her to pursue her dream

Jakarta, Aug 31: India’s 4x400m women’s relay team yesterday clinched its fifth consecutive gold medal in the Asian Games here to maintain a remarkable domination in this event in the continental showpiece. The Indian women's quartet of Hima Das, M R Poovamma, Saritaben Gayakwad and Vismaya Velluva Koroth ran 3 minute and 28.72 seconds to claim the gold. Poovamma hails from Karnataka’s coastal

Udupi, Aug 30: The Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF) has urged the Ministry of External Affairs to help release Shankar Poojary, a native of Basrur of Udupi district who has been lodged in a jail in Kuwait on the charge of possessing narcotic substances. In a press release issued here on Thursday, Ravindranath Shanbhag, HRPF president, said Mr. Poojary had left for Kuwait in May 2014 to

Bengaluru, Aug 30: The Karnatakagovernment has asked the Centre to release Rs 1,118.40 crore to take up relief works in rain-battered Kodagu district, Malnad region and coastal parts of the state. Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday submitted a memorandum to Union home minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi, estimating the loss at Rs 3,486 crore. The memorandum said the relief claimed was

Bengaluru, Aug 30: As the JD(S)-Congress coalition ministry in Karnataka completed 100 days in office, BJP today lashed out at the H D Kumaraswamy government alleging that development had gone for a toss and the chief minister was worried whether his government would survive or not. The BJP took to social media to attack the government, bombarding it with a series of Facebook posts over its

Mangaluru, Aug 30: Hundreds of students in Mangalore University today boycotted their classes and staged a protest demanding the arrest of a motorbike-borne miscreant who allegedly misbehaved with girls on the campus yesterday. The students, who laid siege to the administrative block of the University, alleged that the management neither considered the incident seriously nor took any necessary