Karnataka

Mangaluru, Aug 9: Several thousand people from across the district including students of various institutions on Wednesday staged a massive protest in the heart of the coastal city demanding justice for Kayva Poojary, the Class 10 student of Alva’s High School, who was found dead in her hostel room in Moodbidri last month. More than three dozen organisations had extended support to today’s protest

Mangaluru, Aug 9: A team of six students and a mentor from The Yenepoya School, Jeppina Mogaru, Mangaluru has been selected for participating in the upcoming IIMUN (Indian International Model United Nations) USA 2017 Conference. Shoaib Shiek Mohammed of Grade 10th, Anjali Maria Augustine, Caroline Castelino, Dhruv K. Shah of Grade 9th and Ilhan Irfan, Vaishnavi Rao of Grade 8th are the students

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 9: Forty-two people linked with various organisations, including terror outfit ISIS, were suspected to have gone missing from Kerala in last five years, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Tuesday. There was no information about these missing people, Vijayan said in a written reply in the state Assembly, adding that all cases connected with IS were probed by the

Chikkamagaluru, Aug 9: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said the Congress would retain power after the next Assembly elections and neither B.S. Yeddyurappa nor H.D. Kumaraswamy would become his successor. He was addressing a gathering on the seventh death anniversary of former MLA K.M. Krishnamurthy in Kadur. He said in the past four years, the Congress has delivered on its pre-poll promises. “We

Madikeri, Aug 9: Over 15O acres land illegally occupied by Daisy Jacob, wife of Jacob Thomas, Kerala's former director general of police, at Koppattimalai near Sampaje in Kodagu district has been finally recovered by the Forest department. The property is worth Rs 18.12 crore. Madikeri DFO Suryasena with 30 forest staff and 20 Rapid Action Force personnel conducted the eviction. Daisy had held the

Mangaluru, Aug 9: RSS veteran Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat has lashed out at Karnataka government for withdrawing financial grant, given through the Kollur Mookambika Temple, to two government-aided private schools managed by the Sri Rama Vidyakendra Trust. Bhat, who is alpha and omega of the Trust, accused Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai and chief minister Siddaramaiah of

Mangaluru, Aug 9: An elderly Haj pilgrim from coastal Karnataka, who was said to be an asthma patient, has died of heart attack in Arafat Hospital in Saudi Arabia. The deceased has been identified as Abdullah, a resident of Bunder area in Mangaluru city. According to sources, he was hospitalised on Monday due to severe breathing difficulty. However, his health condition continued to worsen and he

New Delhi, Aug 9: The Supreme Court on Tuesday put for final consideration before a three-judge bench a question of the law raised by Energy Minister D K Shivakumar and others. The issue is if high courts can stay proceedings initiated under the Prevention of Corruption Act despite a statutory bar. A three-judge bench presided over by Chief Justice J S Khehar gave time to senior advocate Mukul

Bengaluru, Aug 9: Recently in Bangalore, a city civic court directed Devanand Shivashankarappa Kashappanavar, the son of late former Karnataka minister S R Kashappanavar, to pay Rs 4.84 crore as permanent alimony to his wife within 60 days, according to a report in media. The court granted a divorce as Devanand had an extra-marital affair and had married another woman against the law. The

Bengaluru, Aug 9: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is likely to visit New Delhi after August 16 to discuss the much-delayed expansion of his council of ministers with the Congress high command. Sources in the state Congress said Siddaramaiah has sought an appointment with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for this purpose. Currently, there are three vacancies in the council of ministers. The