Karnataka

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 11: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is undertaking an aerial survey of flood-ravaged districts of the state which have been pounded by heavy rains since the past few days. Due to inclement weather, the chief minister's helicopter could not land at Kattapana in Idukki, where he had called a meeting to review the situation in the backdrop of the opening of five

Hassan, Aug 11: Rubbishing the rumours about Janata Dal-Secular MLAs accepting Bharatiya Janata Party’s offer in the state as baseless, Public Works Minister H D Revanna has claimed that around 20 BJP MLAs are ready to leave the party to join the JD(S). Speaking to media persons here yesterday he said: “Nobody from JD-S will join the BJP. I too have heard about efforts from the BJP to woo MLAs

Udupi, Aug 11: A leopard, which strayed into a village in Udupi district fell into a well while after catching a dog yesterday. It was rescued by the personnel of the Forest Department later. The incident took place at Hunsemakki hamlet in Hombady-Mandady Gram Panchayat in Kundapur taluk at around 2 a.m. on Friday. The leopard caught a seven-month-old dog at the house of Lata Kulalti. After

Mangaluru, Aug 11: The Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested a person on charge of barging into a hostel and sexually assaulting a college student nearly twenty days ago. According to B.R. Ravikanthe Gowda, Superintendent of Police, Dakshina Kannada, on July 20, the accused had entered the B.Sc. Nursing women’s hostel of K.R. Hospital in Mysuru after threatening the security guard with a

Udupi, Aug 11: A private degree college at Brahmavar in Udupi district has launched an initiative to allow students to opt for writing college examinations without invigilators. As many as 19 students of BA and B.Com courses appeared for the examination on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The total student strength of the college is 300. In a press release here on Friday, S.K. Samuel, principal of

Mangaluru, Aug 10: Heavy rain continued to pound coastal Karnataka including Dakshina Kannada and Udupi causing floods in at Kottara Chowki and other low-lying areas of Mangaluru city. The India Meteorological Department has cautioned that the region would get heavy rain in the next three days and very heavy rain for two more days thereafter. It also said that the sea condition is likely to be

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 10: Dam reservoirs and rivers overflowed, sections of highways collapsed and homes were swept away in severe flooding in more than half of Kerala, after days of incessant rains left nearly 54,000 people homeless and killed at least 29, officials said today. Five columns of Army were deployed in the state's seven severely-hit northern districts, out of Kerala's 14, to help

Mumbai, Aug 10: A 12-year-old girl lost her life and nearly 200 children were hospitalized due to suspected side-effects of a deworming exercise and administration of iron and folic acid tablets. All the victims are the students of Sanjay Nagar Urdu School at Govandi suburbs of Mumbai. The school is run by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Dr Pradeep Jadhav said that 161 children were

Mangaluru, Aug 10: Almost two weeks after he drowned in the River Bhadra near Kalsa in Mudigere taluk, the body of an engineer from Mangaluru was found yesterday. The victim is Kiran Kotyan, an engineer who was working with Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers (MCF) at Panamburu, Mangaluru. He was a native of Thumbe village in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. Kotyan was on a visit to

Mangaluru, Aug 10: The Karnataka government is now set to deport 107 foreign nationals from African countries arrested in July by the Bengaluru police and officials from the Foreign Regional Registration Office. While 101 among them were arrested for overstaying and visa term violations, the other six were held on charges of them possessing narcotic substances. Deputy Chief Minister and Home