Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 10: Condolences from various leaders poured in as soon as the news of the demise of former minister B A Mohideen spread. He was recognised for his services by the Karnataka Government by conferring the Devaraj Urs Award in 2016. Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah joined other State leaders in recalling the services of late Mohideen, who was a close

New Delhi, Jul 10: WhatsApp took out full-page advertisements in Indian newspapers on Tuesday offering "easy tips" to identify fact from fiction after a slew of recent murders spurred by hoaxes shared on its platform. The Facebook-owned messaging service has been under immense pressure to curb the spread of misinformation in India after the lynching of more than 20 people accused of child

Udupi, Jul 10: A youth from coastal Karnataka was killed on the spot and his girlfriend suffered critical injuries when their motorbike collided with a speeding bus at Masthikatte in Hosanagara taluk of Shivamogga today. The mishap occurred when the couple was heading towards Udupi. Their two-wheeler collided head-on with a Tirupati-bound tourist bus. The deceased has been identified as Prasanna

Bengaluru, Jul 10: Former chief minister and Karnataka BJP supremo B S Yeddyurappa has raked up a fresh controversy by holding chief minister H D Kumaraswamy responsible for the death of another former chief minister N Dharam Singh. Singh, who headed the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government from May 2004 to February 2006, died of heart attack at a private hospital in Bengaluru in

Mangaluru, Jul 10: Days before the scheduled release of his much anticipated biography, former Higher Education Minister of Karnataka B A Mohideen passed away in a hospital in Bengaluru today. He was 81. Born to Abdul Khader and Haleema at Pejawar in Bajpe village in May 1938, Mohideen, joined Congress in 1969 and held various positions in the party before getting elected to Karnataka Legislative

Bengaluru, Jul 10: A Bengaluru court today sentenced three of the 14 accused in the 2010 Chinnaswamy Stadium bomb blast case to seven years in jail. The NIA designated court judge Siddalinga Prabhu sentenced them to seven years of simple imprisonment and one year of rigorous imprisonment, which would run concurrently. On July 4, the court had reserved its order after the accused pleaded guilty

Bengaluru, Jul 10: Two boys, who had aspired to become national level cricketers, were arrested by the South division police here for allegedly snatching chains to raise money for coaching. The accused have been identified as Naveen Shetty, 19, a resident of Lingarajapuram, and Bala Kumar, 19, from Kanakadasa Layout. In fact they were in need of mere Rs 30 thousand to get coaching. With the first

Bengaluru, Jul 10: A 40-year-old BBMP pourakarmika committed suicide after allegedly consuming poison in Palace Guttahalli on Sunday afternoon, prompting huge protests by the civic body’s solid waste management workers on Monday. T Subramani, from Muneshwara Block, Palace Guttahalli, had been working as a pourakarmika for six months. He took the extreme step after getting a complaint to the

New Delhi, Jul 9: The HRD Ministry on Monday granted "Institutions of Eminence" status to three public and three private institutes, enabling them to get full autonomy and special incentives to project them as "world class universities". While the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry will grant Rs 1,000 crore funds to the three public institutions in the next five years, the private

Shivamogga, Jul 9: A schoolgirl was washed away in Dodlumanehalla stream that was in spate owing to heavy rain near Guddekeri village in Tirthahalli taluk today. The victim has been identified as Ashika (15), who was studying in ninth standard at the Government high school in Guddekeri. A holiday was declared for schools and colleges in Tirthahalli taluk on Monday in the wake of heavy rain