Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 10: In what could have been a major tragedy, a car plunged into the River Phalguni near Malavoor vented dam, off Airport Road on the outskirts of the city on Sunday. Including the driver, there were two female college students were there on board the ill-fated car. Both of them had a narrow escape in the tragedy. According to the police, the girls were on their way from Bajpe to

Tumakuru, Dec 10: Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Farooq Abdullah has called upon the Indians to protect the secular India that Mahatma Gandhi and Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad had dreamt of. Speaking at the JD(S) state-level minorities' convention in Tumakuru on Sunday, the veteran politician alleged that political parties were seeding differences among people in the name of temple and masjid

Bagalkot, Dec 10: Karnataka’s Bagalkot district has witnessed three so called ‘honour killings’ within a span of five days in two separate incidents. One case is related to inter-caste love affair while another is related to inter-caste wedding. Inter-caste wedding In Hungund taluk of Bagalkote district, a Hescom lineman Sangamesh of the Kumbara caste and Kuruba woman Hanumavva had married in a

Anna Ardova, a veteran Russian comedy actor, who always wanted to get a feel of India, is now undergoing Ayurveda treatment in Karnataka’s Udupi. According to her, India is the land spirituality and is the hidden treasure of all happiness. Speaking to media persons on Saturday she said that she was undergoing Panchakarma treatment at Goswami Treatment Center at Kaup in the district for

Bengaluru, Dec 10: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah challenged Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda to contest and win from the Varuna constituency seat in Mysore-- "if he has the guts". The CM said that his son Dr Yathindra would contest from the Varuna constituency in the upcoming Assembly polls "if the party gives him a ticket". "I challenge Sadananda Gowda to contest and win against him if he has the

The 15-year-old boy who reportedly confessed to police that he had killed his mother and sister at their house in Noida recently was addicted to a violent gangster game played on mobile phones. Anjali Agarwal (42) and her 12-year-old daughter, Kanika, were found beaten and stabbed to death at their residence on the night of December 4; the boy was reported missing since that day. He was caught in

Bengaluru, Dec 10: A former councillor in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and Janata Dal (Secular) leader Govinde Gowda, 58, was hacked to death in Hegganahalli cross on the city’s outskirts on Saturday. Around 4.30 p.m., Gowda was allegedly waylaid on the main road by a group of men armed with machetes and knives, said the Rajagopal Nagar Police, who are investigating the case. Noticing

Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has sought to see the killing and burning of a Muslim labourer in Rajasthan earlier this week as a “criminal incident” and not as a case with a so called “love jihad” angle to it, as was being alleged. The minority affairs minister also, without naming anyone, said that some "sick" people were allegedly trying to disturb the communal harmony in

Karnatak Pradesh Congress Committee's (KPCC) 2018 Assembly election manifesto committee chairman M Veerappa Moily has noted that the draft manifesto for the Congress Party for the forthcoming elections would be ready by January 15, while the committee is also reviewing the implementation of the party's manifesto announced during 2013 elections. "As per our review, 159 assurances out of 179

Bengaluru, Dec 10: Denying the charge hiring a hitman, veteran journalist Ravi Belagere has told police that he never wanted to eliminate his subordinate Sunil Heggaravalli. The police took Belagere into custody on December 8, after the arrest of Shashidhar Mundewadi, whom they describe as a contract killer. Sources privy to the investigation said that a team headed by DCP Jinendra Kanagavi, asked