Karnataka

Kannur, Jan 21: Four suspects have been arrested by the police for alleged involvement in the killing of ABVP activist Shyam Prasad in Kannur district of Kerala. Police say, all arrested are activists of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political arm of the Popular Front of India. Prasad, an ABVP activist studying at the Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Peravoor, was

Bengaluru, Jan 21: Following repeated attacks on police personnel in Bengaluru, the Bengaluru city police commissioner on Saturday authorised his staff to shoot at miscreants targeting them. "Use your power when assailants obstruct you while discharging your duties,'' said police commissioner T Suneel Kumar. In the last one week, there have been 13 attacks on police constables in the city. "If

Mangaluru, Jan 21: City based Yenepoya Speciality Hospital, has been granted certified by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH), a constituent board of Quality Council of India (QCI), with effect from January 8, 2018. A release said Yenepoya is among 491 hospitals that got accreditation out of 1,200-plus applicant hospitals across the country. The hospital

Mangaluru, Jan 20: Sri Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji, the chief pontiff of Pejawar Mutt, who was on a trip to Mantralayam in Andhra Pradesh suffered a back sprain due to a speed breaker on road while travelling in a car. According to sources, the 86-year-old seer was on the way back from Mantralayam to Hyderabad on Friday when the incident took place. When the car reached Nandyal in Kurnool district

Mangaluru, Jan 20: Within six months of his posting, Superintendent of Police, Dakshina Kannada, C.H. Sudheer Kumar Reddy, was transferred to Belagavi district. B.R. Ravikanthe Gowda, Superintendent of Police, Belagavi, would replace Mr. Reddy, according to a notification from the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Bengaluru, issued on Saturday. Mr. Reddy’s transfer came as a

Bengaluru, Jan 20: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that he had declined to accept the honorary doctorate proposed by the University of Mysore. In a tongue in cheek reply to media queries, Siddaramaiah said, "I do not hold a PhD. Hence I said no to the doctorate." M S S Kumar, a Syndicate member of the UoM on Friday had said that he had proposed Siddaramaiah's name for the honorary

Mysuru, Jan 20: Five seers/mutt heads on Saturday wrote letters, with their blood, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urging them to ban cow slaughter in consonance with the Article 48 of Constitution and take necessary steps to protect and preserve native (deshi) breeds. The seers wrote the letter in blood, during a programme organised by Goh Parivar at the Agrahara

Mandya, Jan 20: In a fresh push to bestow Bharat Ratna on Siddaganaga seer Shivakumara Swamiji, former chief minister and BJP leader S M Krishna has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking India's highest civilian honour for the centenarian seer. In the letter, a copy of which is available with DH, Krishna has stated, "The 111-year-old Swamiji is rendering service to the society for the

Tumakuru, Jan 20: Leopards and bears straying into the villages and towns on the forest fringes are nothing unusual in Tumakuru district. But a leopard went further by barging into the house of Ranganath on Ist Cross, Jayanagar East, in Tumakuru on Saturday morning. The leopard strayed into the house of Ranganath, a retired KSRTC employee, when the Forest department personnel were conducting

Dubai, Jan 20: Tweets from Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj helped an Indian woman expedite a visit visa to visit her critical husband admitted at a hospital in Dubai, UAE. Diplomatic missions, prompted by a tweet from the Swaraj, intervened to help process a UAE visit visa for Garima (Twitter handle: @agg_garim) over the weekend. Garima's tweets addressed at the minister revealed