Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 9: A wild elephant trampled a labourer to death and injured two of his colleagues at Kombaru village in Subramanya Range Forest Division in Dakshina Kannada district two days ago. The deceased and injured were 15 labourers from Tamil Nadu employed for constructing a railway bridge on the Subramanya- Mangaluru Railway line. While 12 had left the site to attend a function in their

Honnavar, Mar 9: A group of miscreants belonging to saffron groups waylaid a vehicle transporting cattle and assaulted two persons at Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district on Wednesday night. The Honnavar police have so far arrested four persons allegedly involved in the attack. Superintendent of Police Vinayak Patil said that Noorul Amin, 40, and Guran Pote, 35, were transporting eight heads of

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Karnataka government on Friday carried out three separate raids in different parts of the state and unearthed documents pertaining to alleged illegal wealth acquisition by officers. Excise DySP Vinod Kumar The tam of ACB officers raided the Mangaluru house of Excise Deputy Superintendent Vinod Kumar on Friday. Including this house, they simultaneously raided six

Bengaluru, Mar 9: Lokayukta Justice P Vishwanath Shetty, who was stabbed by Tejraj Sharma, has told members of his family that the attacker did not even give him any time to react and, stabbed him. Justice Shetty's son Shashi Kiran Shetty, senior counsel at High Court of Karnataka, told DH that his father told him on Thursday that he was no way connected with the complaints filed by Sharma. "His

The transfer of Hassan deputy commissioner Rohini Sindhuri Dasari will be put on hold till March 13, the state government informed the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Thursday. The2009-batch IAS officer moved the Bengaluru bench of the CAT after the government, on Wednesday, issued an order transferring her as the Commissioner, Department of Employment and Training. This is the second

Bengaluru, Mar 8: State BJP president Yeddyurappa today lashed out at the Siddaramaiah government over deteriorating law and order in Karnataka and said the chief minister was running the state like 'Tughlaq darbar" ahead of the state assembly polls. His remarks come a day after the state's most senior anti-corruption officer P Vishwanatha Shetty was hospitalised after he was stabbed repeatedly at

The Karnataka High Court has issued notices to Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde and Chikkamagaluru MLA C T Ravi while hearing a matter regarding their derogatory comments against Tipu Sultan, the 18th century Mysore ruler. Justice R B Budihal was hearing a petition filed by Alam Pasha challenging the rejection of his private complaint report by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court. Pasha had

Mangaluru, Mar 8: Prof. I Chikkappa Rai (84), former Head of the Department of Botany, St Aloysius College, Mangaluru, succumbed to old age this evening (Thursday, 8th March 2018). He passed away at about 7:00 p.m. at his residence on Suvarna Road, Kankanady, Mangaluru. Hailing from the reputed Ichilampady family, Prof. I. Chikkappa Rai is survived by his wife Shankari Rai, two sons Subodh and

Poets are an asset to the society. Many a poets have vindicated the age-old saying, ‘Pen is mightier than the sword’, by challenging norms and addressing grievances. Poems are synonymous to eye-openers. Reality-checks via poems could be the upcoming recipe to mend a society that prevails on undercurrents of hypocrisy and insensitivity. Mafazah Sharafuddin, the youngest among the three children of

Mangaluru, Mar 8: Beacons-2018, the two-day national level media fest of Nitte Institute of Communication commenced on Thursdayat the institute’s Deralakatte campus in the city. The fifth edition of the fest, themed 'Dissent is Necessary' was inaugurated by Prakash Belawadi, renowned actor, theatre artist, journalist, activist and media personality. Dr C S Shastry, Principal, Nitte Gulabi Shetty