Karnataka

Mysuru, Jul 13: A retired IAS officer was killed in a mishap when he was tilling his land at Byadarahalli in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district yesterday. The victim is S N Nagaraj (62), who was initially a KAS officer and then promoted to IAS cadre. He had retired as the deputy commissioner of Raichur in 2016. Nagaraj was tilling his land using the tractor since morning. At around 12.30 pm the

Udupi, Jul 12: Nearly two dozen passengers were injured when a private bus on its way from Karkala to Mangaluru fell on its side at Daddu in Kedinje village in Karkala taluk today. According to the police, the bus hit a mound of soil and then fell on its side. Three or four passengers who were severely injured have been shifted to a private hospital in Manipal, while the remaining passengers who

Bengaluru, Jul 12: Former chief minister Siddaramaiah has asked his successor H D Kumaraswamy to withdraw the budgetary proposal to hike taxes on fuel, and also to restore 7 kg of rice per person under the Anna Bhagya scheme for below the poverty line (BPL) families. The two issues were hotly debated during the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting held here on Wednesday. Siddaramaiah said he

Mangaluru, Jul 12: Senior journalist, activist, scholar and journalism teacher Dr Ronald Anil Fernandes has been appointed as a member of the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC). A recipient of prestigious Sarojini Naidu Award, the Media Academy Award, and the Dakshina Kannada District Rajyotsava Award, Dr Fernandes was working for Deccan Herald for over two decades. He resigned as the

Bengaluru, July 12: A mid-air collision was averted after two IndiGo aircraft came face-to-face on July 10 in Bengaluru airspace. The incident was reported when 6E-779 (Coimbatore-Hyderabad) and 6E-6505 (Bangalore-Cochin) were in the air. All the passengers onboard the Indigo flights were de-boarded safely after landing. Commenting on the incident, Indigo Airlines said in its statement: "The

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