Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 12: In a heartrending incident, three young technical engineers lost their lives due to asphyxiation when they were checking a leak in a water tank at a chemical factory in Harohalli industrial area on Kanakapura Road. The police gave the names of the victims as Lokesh Krishnappa (31), a native of Kolar; Mahesh Shivamallegowda (28), a resident of Gottahalli in Harohalli; and

Bengaluru, Jul 12: Upset over not being elected class leader, a high school boy has committed suicide by hanging himself at his home in Rajarajeshwarinagar, southwest Bengaluru. The deceased has been identified as R Dhruvraj, a class 9 student of Baldwin Co-Education Extension High School, RR Nagar. According to victim’s mother R Divya, he was depressed as he could not get elected as the class

Bantwal, Jul 12: A team of revenue officials accompanied by the local police raided a house in Bantwal yesterday wherein an unauthorised Aadhaar updation and correction centre was being operated. Two persons identified as Francis Prashant and Prakash were running the unauthorized centre in the house of Haroon Rashid, general secretary of Janata Dal (Secular) district minority cell. The police said

Mangaluru, Jul 12: Communal tension prevailed for a while at Kalladka town of Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada last evening when a group of saffron chauvinists, claiming to be saviors of Hindutva laid siege to a house where two female medical students were put up. According to sources, two Bengaluru bound female medical students – a Hindu and a Muslim – had come to latter’s relative’s house near

Kasaragod, Jul 12: A court here on Wednesday awarded 10-year rigorous imprisonment to a 37-year-old man for sexually abusing a five-year-old girl in 2014. District Additional Sessions Court (I) awarded the punishment to Abdul Gafoor, resident of Cheruvathur town, besides slapping a fine of Rs. 50,000 on him. The amount will be paid to the girl. The case filed before the Chandera police station

Bengaluru, Jul 11: The newly appointed KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday said that the Congress had made a "sacrifice" by forming a government with the JD(S) to preserve secularism and democracy. He said though Congress secured 80 assembly seats as against 37 of JDS, it decided to help the latter form the government, "not because we are weak, but because our objectives are different."

Mangaluru, Jul 11: The death toll in the head-on collision involving a van and a truck at Uppala on Monday has risen to six with a one-year-old girl succumbing to her injuries at a private hospital in Mangaluru. The condition of a 13-year-old who was among 18 family members from K C Road in Mangaluru taluk travelling in the van was said to be critical. Manjeswaram sub-inspector V.K. Aneesh said

Puttur, Jul 11: In a rare development, students of a pre-university college in coastal Karnataka have taken an oath to abstain from WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media at least till the completion of their educational career. Interestingly, it’s a voluntary and collective decision by the students of Ambika PU College located at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district without any motivation by

Bengaluru, July 11: Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday took over as the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). He was felicitated by Congress Legislative party leader Siddaramaiah. Last week, Congress President Rahul Gandhi had appointed Dinesh Gundu Rao as the President of the KPCC. Dinesh Gundu Rao is a five-time MLA from Gandhinagar constituency in Bengaluru. He succeeded

Bengaluru, Jul 11: A married couple found dead in the bathroom of their flat in Rajarajeshwarinagar, southwest Bengaluru yesterday. The victims have been identified as Mahesh H, 35, software engineer and his wife Sheela, 30, a homemaker, who hailed from Athani in Belagavi district. They are survived by two daughters aged 6 and 4. Police suspect the couple suffocated to death after inhaling carbon