Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 14: The Mangaluru City Corporation has identified five places in its limits to set up Indira canteens that are expected to serve people from the New Year, according to Mayor Kavitha Sanil. Indira Canteens are a chain of government-run desi food joints, wherein people can have breakfast at Rs 5 and lunch at Rs 10. This is one of the pet projects of chief minister Siddaramaiah led

The Saudi Arabian government has approved the practice of yoga as a sports activity, claimed a social media post of Nouf Marwaai, founder of the Arab Yoga Foundation in the oil-rich kingdom. She wrote on her Facebook wall: "Yoga literally means 'union'. A union of individual with ones wellbeing, a body to mind, emotions and soul, nation to globe has officially arrived at the sea shore of Saudi

Belagavi, Nov 14: The Legislative Assembly witnessed uproarious scenes with the BJP insisting that the party be allowed to make a preliminary submission to move an adjournment motion seeking the resignation of Bengaluru Development Minister K J George. Soon after question hour, Leader of the Opposition Jagadish Shettar said the party sought to move an adjournment motion seeking the resignation of

Chennai, Nov 14: In a horrendous incident coming from the city of Chennai, a 22-year-old girl died on Monday after a man who is reported to be a former classmate and long-time stalker set her on fire. The mother and sister of the deceased also suffered severe burns while trying to save her. The sister is currently under treatment in a hospital ICU while the mother has suffered at least 49% burns

Bengaluru, Nov 14: Scolded by her mother for using mobile phone at night, a 17-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house in Bengaluru last evening. The deceased has been identified as Bindu Basavaraju, a resident of Mahalakshmi Layout, north Bengaluru. She was a II PU student of a Malleswaram college. Her father Basavaraja runs a browsing centre, while mother

New Delhi, Nov 14: The Department of Telecom has ordered all carriers to clearly specify the last date – of February 6, 2018 – when they send any communications, text or voice messages to their consumers for re-verification of mobile numbers through Aadhaar. "Any communications/voice messages/SMS, which is to be sent by licences to their mobile subscribers regarding re-verification of mobile

Mysuru, Nov 14: Three persons of a family lost their lives and some of their relatives suffered severe injuries when the vehicle in which they were travelling met with an accident at Kelagatte near Hunsur on their way to Mysuru early on Tuesday morning. The deceased have been identified as Mohammad Iqbal (40), his elder brother Abdul Hameed (43), and latter’s son Shaikh Hakib (12). Hailing from

Bengaluru, Nov 14: Private doctors in Karnataka have decided to continue their protest in Belagavi, where the winter session of the legislature is on, with talks with the State government failing to make any headway on Monday. As planned, the Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) State unit will continue its relay hunger strike in front of Suvarna Soudha from Tuesday. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who

Kasaragod, Nov 14: Two siblings from Karnataka’s Belgavi city were arrested in connection with the murder of a youth at Cherkala in Kasaragod district. A team headed by Superintendent of Police K.G. Simon arrested the duo identified as Akkandappa (30) and his brother Vittal (33) for hacking to death Rangappa Gaji (27) in August. The victim was also a native of Karnataka’s Bagalkot. His highly

Bengaluru Nov 14: Retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar has submitted a report to the state government on the alleged special treatment meted out to expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala and other "erroneous" practices at Bengaluru Central Prisons at Parappana Agrahara. Kumar met chief secretary Subhash Chandra Khuntia on October 21 and submitted a 2000-page enquiry report. "I collected information