Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jun 25: A bunch girls under the aegis of the Campus Front of India (CFI) today staged a protest in front of a prestigious private educational institution in the city over alleged restrictions on the hijab inside the classroom. The burkha-clad girls, a few Muslim boys who gathered near the entrance gate of St Agnes College raised slogans against the hijab ban and claimed that not

Madikeri, Jun 25: A Class 9 student of a top military school in Karnataka's Kodagu district was found dead under mysterious circumstance, sparking massive outrage. Officials said that 14-year-old NP Chingappa was found unconscious in the washroom of the Sainik School located at Kudige, near Kushalnagar. The washroom is connected to the laboratory. School authorities rushed him to a government

Newsroom, Jun 25: Senior BJP leader and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj became the latest victim of hardline Hindutva troll brigade on social media platforms after she voiced support for an inter-faith couple from Uttar Pradesh that faced harassment by a passport official. An upset minister “liked” numerous abusive and offensive tweets and wrote: "I was out of India from 17th to 23rd June

Bengaluru, Jun 25: BJP state president B S Yedddyurappa on Sunday dared Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar to make public “secret diaries” which the Congress leader had claimed would expose BJP leaders in the state. Last week, soon after the Income Tax Department filed its fourth case of tax evasion against Shivakumar, he had termed it a “political vendetta” by the BJP at the Centre and had

Bengaluru, Jun 25: Parents of Parashuram Waghmore, the man accused of pulling the trigger on senior journalist Gauri Lankesh, met him at the CID headquarters on Sunday. The meeting happened 15 days after Parashuram's arrest from his residence in Sindagi in Vijayapura district for further interrogation in the case. Parashuram's mother Janaki Bai and father Ashok Waghmore arrived at the CID

Bengaluru, Jun 25: A video clip in which senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah is seen expressing disappointment over the presentation of a fresh budget by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has gone viral. Siddaramaiah, the chief minister in the previous Congress regime, is undergoing nature therapy at ‘Shanthivana’ in Dharmastala. In the video footage (which appears to have been recorded on a mobile

Mangaluru, Jun 25: A brief dalliance on Facebook left a homemaker poorer by over Rs 16 lakh as she battled repeated calls from her “overseas friend” and the “customs office” seeking money to clear a huge gift that never came. A case has been registered at the cyber police station. Police said a few months ago, Reshma from Attavara received a friend request from a man named Jack Coleman. She didn’t

New Delhi, Jun 24: WhatsApp is working on setting up a 24-hour customer support for users of its payments services that is slated to be rolled out in India in the coming weeks. WhatsApp, which has over 200 million users in India, will provide support through e-mails as well as a toll-free number. “We will provide 24-hour customer support. Payments users can contact the support team via e-mail and

New Delhi, Jun 24: Overdose of sedatives, forcibly administered to an eight-year-old rape victim during her captivity in Kathua in January 2018, could have pushed her into coma before she was killed, forensic medical experts have said. The Crime Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, probing the gang rape and murder case, sent a sample of her viscera to a forensic laboratory earlier this month to

Davanagere, Jun 24: In what could have been a major catastrophe, a moving car burst into flames near Malebennur in Davanagere district today. Fortunately, none of the occupants of the Renault Kwid belonging to local resident Siddaraju was hurt though the vehicle was burnt to a cinder. Police said, Siddaraju and his family were on their way to attend a family ceremony when the car caught fire while